Melanoma: who works on it

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• All targets
• PD-1 54
• BRAF 18
• PD-L1 21
• MEK 7
• TP53 0
• CTLA-4 10
• MAPK 2
• NRAS 8
• STING 0
• STAT3 0
• PRAME 3
• AKT 0
• PI3K 0
• BAP1 2
• VEGF 4
• mTOR 0
• ERK 0
• LAG-3 2
• RAS 2
• CTNNB1 0
• CD40 0
• CDKN2A 3
• TNF 0
• YAP 0
• PTEN 1
• JAK 0
• KIT 3
• KRAS 1
• JNK 0
• PPAR 0
• TIGIT 0
• ALK 0
• B7-H3 3
• BCL-2 0
• EZH2 0
• HIF-1 0
• IL-15 1
• NF1 2
• NLRP3 0
• NRF2 0
• AMPK 0
• HSP90 0
• CD47 0
• MYC 0
• PKM2 0
• AXL 1
• COX-2 0
• EGFR 0
• GPX4 0
• MET 1
• HDAC 1
• IDH 1
• IL-17 1
• MMP-9 0
• CDK4/6 0
• CXCR4 0
• FGFR 0
• HER2 3
• IGF1R 0
• PSMA 3

7 of 7+ 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.

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC-POC

  Validation of artificial intelligence-based minibinders and inhibitors of Midkine in immune resistant tumours (MDK_MINIBINDERS)

  Fundacion Sector Publico Estatal Centro Nacional Investigaciones Oncologicas Carlos Iii· Madrid, Spain· EU contribution €150,000· until Apr 2028

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

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

  Light-triggered Ultra-precise Carbon-enhanced phycocyanin Engineered Needles for Therapy (LUCENT)

  Univerzita Palackeho V Olomouci· Olomouc, Czechia· EU contribution €191,918· until Aug 2028· 2 countries

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

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

  Targeted therapy to block melanoma progression through peptide phage-display profiling of melanoma cells and derived extracellular vesicles (Target-MelaneX)

  I3s - Instituto de Investigacao e Inovacao Em Saude Da Universidade Do Porto· Porto, Portugal· EU contribution €207,183· until Aug 2028

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

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-EIC

  THz-FIR Colour Imaging of Skin Condition Based on Analysis of Its Thermal Emission (THz-Skin)

  Ita-Suomen Yliopisto· Kuopio, Finland· EU contribution €2,998,913· until Jan 2030· 5 countries

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC-POC

  Capturing UV Sunlight Using Hydrogen-Bond Networks: Organic Sun Screens for Skin Protection (CUSHOSP)

  United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization· Paris, France· EU contribution €150,000· until Jun 2027· 2 countries

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

5 of 12 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: €11.7m.

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 51
• Organoids 8
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 12
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 22
• Gene Expression Profiling 116
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 9
• Whole Genome Sequencing 6
• Exome Sequencing 7
• Proteomics 47
• Metabolomics 20
• Mass Spectrometry 10
• Flow Cytometry 65
• Immunohistochemistry 106
• Liquid Biopsy 12
• Circulating Tumor DNA 37
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 121
• Positron-Emission Tomography 31
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 57
• Machine Learning 49
• Deep Learning 44
• Cohort Studies 78
• Genome-Wide Association Study 22

• Serum Peptidomic Profiling for Biomarker Discovery in Canine Oral Melanoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma via MALDI-TOF and LC-MS/MS.

  Methods Mol Biol, Jan 2027

• Benchmarking cell segmentation in two Spatialomics platforms with open-source software.

  Sci Rep, Oct 2026

• Spatial and Single-Cell Multi-Omics Analyses of T-Cell Subsets and Interactions in Melanoma Lymph Node Metastasis.

  Exp Dermatol, Oct 2026

• Spatial Proteomics as a Potential Decision-Support Layer for Early Melanoma: A Narrative Review.

  Int J Dermatol, Oct 2026

• Melanoma Prognostication Using AI-Guided Histopathology.

  Int J Dermatol, Oct 2026

• Spatial Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis Identifies Novel Immune-Associated Biomarkers of Anti-PD1 Response in Metastatic Melanoma.

  Scand J Immunol, Oct 2026

• Integrated Genomic and Proteomic Analysis Reveals T-B Lymphocyte Signatures in the MYCN Driven "Immune Desert" of Specific Neuroblastoma Subtypes.

  CNS Neurosci Ther, Sept 2026

• Functional and Proteomic Profiles of CD3(+) Plasma-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles Differentiate Cancer Patients From Healthy Donors.

  Eur J Immunol, Sept 2026

• Distinct molecular adaptations underlie convergent phenotypic responses to mannose in normal and metastatic melanocytes.

  Mol Cell Biochem, Aug 2026

• The promise of deep urine proteomics for diagnosis of cancer, neurologic, and metabolic diseases.

  PLoS One, Jul 2026

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