Ovarian cancer: who works on it

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• All targets
• BRCA1 20
• BRCA2 13
• PARP 27
• TP53 6
• PD-1 12
• AKT 2
• HER2 16
• PD-L1 7
• PI3K 3
• STAT3 1
• mTOR 0
• VEGF 7
• KRAS 6
• EGFR 3
• PTEN 2
• MAPK 0
• CTNNB1 0
• FAK 1
• MYC 0
• NRF2 0
• CTLA-4 6
• ERK 1
• JAK 0
• STING 0
• GPX4 0
• HIF-1 0
• MEK 1
• TROP2 4
• PALB2 5
• B7-H3 7
• CDK4/6 4
• ATM 1
• CD47 0
• IL-6 0
• PIK3CA 3
• EZH2 1
• JNK 0
• YAP 0
• BCL-2 0
• BRAF 4
• CXCR4 0
• HDAC 0
• PPAR 0
• AMPK 0
• ARID1A 3
• AXL 1
• COX-2 2
• NMDA 0
• TIGIT 0
• AR 0
• CD40 1
• HER3 1
• HMGB1 0
• KEAP1 1
• METTL3 0
• RAS 0
• TLR4 0
• FGFR 0
• PINK1 0
• PKM2 0

19 of 19+ 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.

• NIH NCI · F31

  The role of p16 expression in sensitivity and resistance to CDK2 inhibitors

  University of Colorado· Boulder, United States· US$43,146 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Sept 2029

• NIH NCI · R01

  Overcoming ovarian cancer chemoresistance by co-targeting senescence and apoptosis

  Harvard University D/B/A Harvard School of Public Health· Boston, United States· US$390,447 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• NIH NCI · R01

  Immune Dysfunction, Social Determinants of Health, and Ovarian Cancer Outcome Differences

  University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh· Pittsburgh, United States· US$674,142 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• NIH NICHD · R61

  Ultrasound-guided Ovarian Tissue Graft generation Platform to improve fertility outcomes

  Atera Medical· Mountain View, United States· US$377,257 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Jun 2028

• NIH NCI · R44

  Preparing for Phase I IND For Paradigm Shifting Alpha Radiotherapy [211At]PTT to Treat Ovarian Cancer

  Trevarx Biomedical, Inc.· Philadelphia, United States· US$1,174,824 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2028

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

  Decoding the Lipidome of Adipose-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Ovarian Cancer: Mechanistic Insight into Tumor-Adipose Crosstalk (Lipid-Ex)

  Philipps Universitaet Marburg· Marburg, Germany· EU contribution €202,125· until Dec 2028

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

  Precision Reasoning In Multimodal Ovarian cancer (PRIMO)

  Institut Regional du Cancer de Montpellier· Montpellier Cedex 5, France· EU contribution €150,000· until Jun 2028

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

  CAR T ceLls with Anti-exhaUstion Device for Immunotherapy Advancement (CLAUDIA)

  Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia· Genova, Italy· EU contribution €150,000· until Mar 2028

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-EIC

  Interpretable Multimodal Predictive Agents and Digital Twins for Ovarian Cancer (IMPACT-OC)

  Danube Private University Gmbh· Krems-Stein, Austria· EU contribution €3,977,586· until Sept 2030· 5 countries

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-RIA

  A Novel Phase-2a Clinical Trial for a Next-Generation Oncolytic Immunotherapy Targeting Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer (OCTOPOD-Ph2a)

  Theolytics Ltd· Oxford, United Kingdom· EU contribution €7,998,791· until May 2029· 3 countries

10 of 659 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$367.4m + €54.2m.

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.

Terminated, withdrawn and suspended trials with the reason the sponsor gave in the registry, quoted word for word.

• Terminated

  Safety and Tolerability of ABM-1310 in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors

  NCT04190628· ABM Therapeutics Corporation· Updated 21 May 2024

  “Not related to safety concerns or lack of efficacy”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

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

• DETERMINE Trial Treatment Arm 07: Dabrafenib in Combination With Trametinib in Adult, Paediatric and Teenage/Young Adult Patients With BRAF V600 Mutation-Positive Cancers.

  NCT07440290· Cancer Research UK· Source

• A Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of FORE8394 in Participants With Cancer Harboring BRAF Alterations

  NCT05503797· Fore Biotherapeutics· Source

• DETERMINE Trial Treatment Arm 05: Vemurafenib in Combination With Cobimetinib in Adult Patients With BRAF Positive Cancers.

  NCT05768178· Cancer Research UK· Source

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

• Single-Cell Analysis 48
• Organoids 19
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 30
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 15
• Gene Expression Profiling 126
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 11
• Whole Genome Sequencing 6
• Exome Sequencing 11
• Proteomics 62
• Metabolomics 17
• Mass Spectrometry 6
• Flow Cytometry 26
• Immunohistochemistry 95
• Liquid Biopsy 15
• Circulating Tumor DNA 14
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 234
• Positron-Emission Tomography 9
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 57
• Machine Learning 60
• Deep Learning 36
• Cohort Studies 105
• Genome-Wide Association Study 27

• Quantitative Single-Cell Multielemental Analysis Using Metal-Loaded Microparticles: toward a Universal Quantification Workflow in Mass Cytometry.

  Anal Chem, Aug 2026

• Protocol for culture, drug treatment, and dissociation of patient-derived 3D ovarian cancer microspheroids for flow cytometry.

  STAR Protoc, Mar 2026

• Flow Cytometry Analysis of IFNγ-Induced PD-L1 Cell Surface Expression in Ovarian Cancer Cells.

  Methods Mol Biol, Jan 2026

• Altered Apoptosis in Endometriosis Compared with Ovarian Carcinoma.

  Medicina (Kaunas), Nov 2025

• Artesunate promotes Th1 differentiation from CD4+ T cells to enhance cell apoptosis in ovarian cancer via miR-142.

  Braz J Med Biol Res, Apr 2019

• Evaluation of Anticancer Activity of Curcumin Analogues Bearing a Heterocyclic Nucleus.

  Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, Jan 2016

• Metformin and epithelial ovarian cancer therapeutics.

  Cell Oncol (Dordr), Aug 2015

• Cisplatin plus sodium arsenite and hyperthermia induces pseudo-G1 associated apoptotic cell death in ovarian cancer cells.

  Toxicol Sci, Feb 2014

• Effects and mechanisms of curcumin and basil polysaccharide on the invasion of SKOV3 cells and dendritic cells.

  Mol Med Rep, Sept 2013

• B19, a novel monocarbonyl analogue of curcumin, induces human ovarian cancer cell apoptosis via activation of endoplasmic reticulum stress and the autophagy signaling pathway.

  Int J Biol Sci, Aug 2013

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