Lung cancer: who works on it

One card per institution. Pick a target or a country to narrow the list.

• All targets
• EGFR 301
• PD-L1 162
• PD-1 156
• KRAS 97
• ALK 72
• TP53 10
• HER2 63
• MET 43
• PI3K 1
• STAT3 0
• AKT 2
• ROS1 27
• VEGF 23
• mTOR 0
• BRAF 9
• RET 9
• NRF2 1
• MAPK 1
• ERK 0
• STING 0
• STK11 7
• YAP 1
• DLL3 27
• CTLA-4 15
• TROP2 14
• CTNNB1 0
• RAS 15
• JAK 1
• HIF-1 1
• AMPK 0
• PARP 2
• KEAP1 5
• JNK 0
• MYC 1
• B7-H3 14
• GPX4 0
• HER3 11
• PTEN 4
• MEK 1
• TIGIT 6
• FGFR 3
• IL-6 1
• PPAR 0
• EZH2 2
• HDAC 0
• PRMT5 7
• FAK 0
• COX-2 0
• HMGB1 0
• NTRK 5
• AXL 3
• BCL-2 0
• CDK4/6 4
• CXCR4 1
• CD47 1
• METTL3 0
• NLRP3 0
• SHP2 0
• HSP90 0
• MDM2 1

1 of 1+ institutions, ordered by recent publications and open trials. This is not a ranking of quality.

Funded research projects that name this disease in their title, terms or summary and have not ended yet: who is funded, where, how much and until when. Organisations only; the funder's page has the details.

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · IK6

  ISRM Research Career Scientist Award Application

  Veterans Health Administration· Pittsburgh, United States· until Sept 2031

• NIH NIEHS · F31

  PhosFate: Investigating Chemical Hazards, Community Exposures, and Health Risks from Phosphate Fertilizer Manufacturing

  University of South Florida· Tampa, United States· US$41,102 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Sept 2028

• NIH NIDCR · F32

  Transposon derived neo-antigens in NSD1 mutant Head and Neck Cancers

  Columbia University Health Sciences· New York, United States· US$77,580 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Sept 2028

• NIH NCI · R01

  Role of Allostatic Load in Immunotherapy Outcomes

  Ut Southwestern Medical Center· Dallas, United States· US$389,844 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• NIH NCI · R21

  Tackling tumor recurrence in pediatric brain tumors: identification of epigenetic memory and tumor microenvironment conducive to tumor recurrence in an inducible and reversible H3K27M murine model.

  University of Michigan at Ann Arbor· Ann Arbor, United States· US$401,115 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2028

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

  Designing Programmable MOF-nanocomposites for Synergistic, Redox-Driven Antitumor Therapies (Photo-bioMOF)

  Fundacion IMDEA Energia· Mostoles Madrid, Spain· EU contribution €262,393· until Feb 2030· 2 countries

  The disease is named only in the funder's project summary, not in the title.

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Identifying and disrupting neuroimmune circuits in cancer (NeuroCAN)

  Universitat Basel· Basel, Switzerland· EU contribution €1,874,590· until Jun 2032

  The disease is named only in the funder's project summary, not in the title.

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

  Predicting immunotherapy response in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer patients using an extracellular vesicle-derived miRNA signature and a non-invasive CRISPR-based detection assay. (IT-PREDICT)

  Centre Georges-Francois Leclerc Association· Dijon, France· EU contribution €242,261· until Mar 2029

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

  A Dual Amplification Photoelectrochemical Platform for KRAS Mutation Detection (PEAKRAS)

  Universiteit Antwerpen· Antwerpen, Belgium· EU contribution €216,240· until Jan 2029

  The disease is named only in the funder's project summary, not in the title.

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF

  KRAS Targeting in Oncogenic Systems: reconstructing the KRAS signalling network to identify optimal drug combinations (KRATOS)

  University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin· Dublin, Ireland· EU contribution €426,534· until Jan 2030· 2 countries

  The disease is named only in the funder's project summary, not in the title.

10 of 1,463 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$846.0m + €224.7m.

Sources: NIH RePORTER (U.S. National Institutes of Health, public domain) and CORDIS (European Commission, CC BY 4.0). Changes: filtered by disease, organisations matched to ROR.

Trials whose registry record says individual participant data (IPD) will be shared.

No trial in this view states that it shares participant data.

Find publications on this disease by a MeSH method term, for example a sequencing or imaging method.

• Single-Cell Analysis 145
• Organoids 47
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 66
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 43
• Gene Expression Profiling 314
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 43
• Whole Genome Sequencing 13
• Exome Sequencing 18
• Proteomics 133
• Metabolomics 67
• Mass Spectrometry 25
• Flow Cytometry 73
• Immunohistochemistry 191
• Liquid Biopsy 76
• Circulating Tumor DNA 83
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 618
• Positron-Emission Tomography 70
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 116
• Machine Learning 290
• Deep Learning 211
• Cohort Studies 289
• Genome-Wide Association Study 75

• [Utility of Imaging Mass Cytometry in Spatial Analysis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer].

  Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, Sept 2026

• A novel approach to non-invasive lung cancer screening via exhaled breath analysis using proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

  J Breath Res, Aug 2026

• Column switching liquid chromatography dual mass spectrometry system for simultaneous untargeted metabolomics and targeted exposomics.

  Nat Commun, Aug 2026

• A high-resolution circulating metabolic atlas of lung adenocarcinoma progression supports early and accurate diagnosis.

  Cell Rep Med, Aug 2026

• From Method-Defined Signals to Reference Measurement Procedures: Two Decades of Mass Spectrometry-Based ProGRP Quantification.

  J Proteome Res, Aug 2026

• Advances in proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry-assisted breath analysis for disease diagnosis.

  J Breath Res, Aug 2026

• Glycan Fingerprint of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma.

  Int J Mol Sci, Jul 2026

• HPLC-HRMS and interpretable machine learning decipher serum lipidomic signatures in NSCLC.

  PeerJ, Jul 2026

• High-Throughput In-Depth Single-Cell Lipidomics by Ozone-Induced Dissociation and Mass Cytometry.

  Anal Chem, Jun 2026

• Heterojunction-Engineered Mass Spectrometry Platform for Deciphering Serum Metabolic Fingerprints in Diagnosis of Respiratory Diseases.

  Adv Sci (Weinh), May 2026

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