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

8 of 8+ 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 NIAID · R56

  Functional dissection of a novel E2 complex critical for the HPV16 life cycle

  Virginia Commonwealth University· Richmond, United States· US$768,308 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2027

• 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

• 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 669 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$373.6m + €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

  ROCKIF Trial: Re-sensitization of Carboplatin-resistant Ovarian Cancer With Kinase Inhibition of FAK

  NCT03287271· Michael McHale· Updated 31 Jul 2026

  “Due to loss of funding”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

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 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

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