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

24 of 27+ 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

  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.

Terminated, withdrawn and suspended trials with the reason the sponsor gave in the registry, quoted word for word.

• Terminated

  A Study to Investigate BGB-3245 (Brimarafenib) With Panitumumab in Participants With Advanced or Metastatic RAS Mutant Colorectal and Pancreatic Ductal Cancers

  NCT06194877· MapKure, LLC· Updated 20 Apr 2025

  “Funding terminated due to business reasons”Registry text, quoted unchanged. Source

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

• Administering Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Transduced With a Murine T-Cell Receptor Recognizing the G12V Variant of Mutated RAS in HLA-A*11:01 Patients

  NCT03190941· National Cancer Institute (NCI)· Source

• A Study to Investigate BGB-3245 (Brimarafenib) With Panitumumab in Participants With Advanced or Metastatic RAS Mutant Colorectal and Pancreatic Ductal Cancers

  NCT06194877· MapKure, LLC· Source

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

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