Pancreatic cancer: who works on it

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• All targets
• KRAS 67
• PD-1 39
• TP53 4
• mTOR 0
• PI3K 0
• STAT3 0
• PD-L1 20
• CLDN18 21
• EGFR 11
• RAS 17
• BRCA2 8
• AKT 0
• BRCA1 10
• ERK 0
• MAPK 1
• PARP 9
• STING 0
• HER2 13
• MYC 0
• YAP 0
• MEK 5
• PALB2 9
• CTLA-4 9
• VEGF 3
• AMPK 0
• ATM 3
• CD40 2
• CXCR4 0
• HIF-1 0
• JNK 0
• NRF2 0
• CDKN2A 3
• GLP-1 2
• NRAS 5
• PRMT5 6
• IL-6 0
• PPAR 0
• PTEN 0
• BCL-2 0
• FAK 1
• IL-15 1
• JAK 0
• TROP2 3
• BRAF 2
• MET 2
• B7-H3 2
• CDK4/6 0
• FGFR 1
• HSP90 0
• CTNNB1 0
• HDAC 0
• KEAP1 1
• CD47 0
• METTL3 0
• MUC1 3
• AXL 1
• CCR5 0
• HER3 1
• NTRK 1
• RET 0

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

  Immunity under Pressure: Mapping Compression Driven Tumor–Immune Rewiring to Potentiate Immunotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer (MechanoImmunoMap)

  University of Cyprus· Nicosia, Cyprus· EU contribution €1,500,000· until Jan 2032

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

  Glycoengineering for Immune Modulation in Precision Anti-Cancer Therapies (GlycoIMPACT)

  Universitat Wien· Wien, Austria· EU contribution €230,185· until Dec 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-DN

  Next-Generation Radiopharmaceuticals for Glioblastoma and Pancreatic Cancer: A 3D Perspective (radio3D)

  Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas· Madrid, Spain· EU contribution €4,366,500· until Dec 2030· 9 countries

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Evoking anti-tumor immunity in pancreatic cancer (Evoke-PDAC)

  Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg· Heidelberg, Germany· EU contribution €2,497,125· until Dec 2031

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

  EXPLORING THE MECHANISM OF METASTASIS/DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TESTS TO ENROLL CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS (CTCs) INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE (CTC4CLINIC)

  Panepistimio Patron· Rio Patras, Greece· EU contribution €796,590· until Dec 2030· 7 countries

5 of 58 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: €177.8m.

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 50
• Organoids 47
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 29
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 16
• Gene Expression Profiling 123
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 11
• Whole Genome Sequencing 3
• Exome Sequencing 10
• Proteomics 55
• Metabolomics 34
• Mass Spectrometry 10
• Flow Cytometry 32
• Immunohistochemistry 70
• Liquid Biopsy 30
• Circulating Tumor DNA 29
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 300
• Positron-Emission Tomography 30
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 117
• Machine Learning 58
• Deep Learning 55
• Cohort Studies 108
• Genome-Wide Association Study 24

• Exploratory mendelian randomization of circulating metabolites and multi-omics characterization of ERCC1 in pancreatic cancer.

  Funct Integr Genomics, Nov 2026

• Genetic evidence for associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and site-specific extraesophageal cancers: A Mendelian randomization study.

  Medicine (Baltimore), Oct 2026

• Unveiling the association between plasma lipid species and pan-cancers: A bidirectional 2-sample Mendelian randomization study.

  Medicine (Baltimore), Sept 2026

• Exploration of the mechanism of gut microbiota-mediated immune modulation in the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer: A Mendelian randomization study.

  Medicine (Baltimore), Aug 2026

• Causal association between hip osteoarthritis and the risk of pancreatic cancer: A bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study.

  Medicine (Baltimore), Jul 2026

• New-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cancer Risk: A Matched Cohort Study in China Kadoorie Biobank.

  Int J Cancer, Jul 2026

• Genetic Links Between Cancer and Coronary Atherosclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.

  Hum Mutat, Jul 2026

• Causal Effects of Metabolic Factors on Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

  Niger Postgrad Med J, Jul 2026

• CLEC4G Promotes Pancreatic Cancer Progression by Suppressing Cathepsin B-Mediated Ferroptosis: Evidence From Mendelian Randomization Study and Experimental Validation.

  Hum Mutat, Jun 2026

• A Comprehensive Assessment of the Causal Relationship between Atopic Conditions and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, Jun 2026

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