Prostate cancer: who works on it

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• All targets
• PSMA 273
• AR 16
• TP53 2
• PARP 13
• PTEN 4
• AKT 1
• BRCA2 7
• BRCA1 9
• STAT3 0
• PI3K 2
• PD-L1 6
• mTOR 1
• PD-1 13
• EZH2 7
• MYC 1
• B7-H3 8
• EGFR 2
• CTNNB1 1
• JNK 0
• ERK 0
• HIF-1 0
• VEGF 2
• BCL-2 0
• MAPK 0
• AMPK 0
• CDK4/6 4
• HER2 6
• NRF2 0
• FAK 0
• PPAR 0
• YAP 0
• IL-6 0
• STING 0
• COX-2 0
• CTLA-4 0
• DLL3 6
• GLP-1 1
• GPX4 0
• HSP90 0
• ATM 1
• HDAC 0
• IL-15 4
• METTL3 1
• BRD4 0
• HER3 2
• JAK 1
• CXCR4 0
• TROP2 3
• CD47 1
• IGF1R 0
• IL-1 0
• MET 1
• PALB2 4
• RB1 0
• TNF 0
• APOE 0
• FGFR 1
• KRAS 0
• MDM2 0
• MEK 0

18 of 18+ 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.

• ALLCDC NCCDPHP · U48

  Optimal survey questions for prostate cancer screening and shared decision-making

  New York University School of Medicine· New York, United States· US$443,904 awarded in fiscal year 2025· until Sept 2029

• ALLCDC NCCDPHP · U48

  Developing and Evaluating Computable Phenotypes to Identify Active Surveillance in Prostate Cancer Using Electronic Health Record Data

  Univ of Massachusetts Med Sch Worcester· Worcester, United States· US$399,303 awarded in fiscal year 2025· until Sept 2028

• NIH NCI · R37

  Targeting Lactylation of Critical Drivers in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer for Therapy

  University of Kentucky· Lexington, United States· US$453,367 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2031

• NIH NCI · R43

  De Novo Minibinder Radiotheranostics for Targeted Treatment of Prostate Cancer

  Vesto Therapeutics, Inc· Seattle, United States· US$400,000 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2027

• NIH NCI · R42

  Dual Acting Bone Defenders for Inhibiting Cancer Mediated Bone Destruction

  Bonestrong Therapeutics Inc.· Portland, United States· US$400,000 awarded in fiscal year 2026· until Aug 2027

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

  Targeting stress signaling pathways to enhance prostate cancer immunotherapy (IMMSTRESS)

  Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg· Heidelberg, Germany· EU contribution €202,125· until Aug 2029

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

  Circulating Tumor Cell-informed RADioresponse Assessment from heme-axis signatuRes (CTC-RADAR)

  Koc University· Istanbul, Türkiye· EU contribution €398,612· until Dec 2029· 2 countries

• 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

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

  Exploitation of bioorthogonal click-to-release chemistry for precision cancer therapy (click-to-cure)

  Kobenhavns Universitet· Kobenhavn, Denmark· EU contribution €247,553· 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-PF-EF

  A Proteoform-Resolved Lateral Flow Immunoassay with Antibody Mimics and Engineered Release for Precise Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (PRIME)

  The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford· Oxford, United Kingdom· EU contribution €260,348· until Sept 2028

10 of 919 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: US$580.4m + €116.1m.

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.

• Study to Test the Safety and Tolerability of PF-07220060 in Participants With Advance Solid Tumors

  NCT04557449· Pfizer· Source

• A Study of Abemaciclib (LY2835219) With Abiraterone in Men With Prostate Cancer That Has Spread to Other Parts of the Body and is Expected to Respond to Hormonal Treatment (Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer)

  NCT05288166· Eli Lilly and Company· Source

• Abemaciclib With or Without Atezolizumab for mCRPC

  NCT04751929· Dana-Farber Cancer Institute· Source

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

• Single-Cell Analysis 42
• Organoids 15
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 39
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 15
• Gene Expression Profiling 154
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 11
• Whole Genome Sequencing 9
• Exome Sequencing 4
• Proteomics 47
• Metabolomics 27
• Mass Spectrometry 16
• Flow Cytometry 58
• Immunohistochemistry 120
• Liquid Biopsy 30
• Circulating Tumor DNA 32
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 287
• Positron-Emission Tomography 125
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 465
• Machine Learning 122
• Deep Learning 101
• Cohort Studies 276
• Genome-Wide Association Study 62

• Concordant RNA-protein evidence and human tissue metabolomics prioritize UPP1-associated nucleotide remodeling in prostate cancer.

  PLoS One, Jul 2026

• Urinary and cellular volatile organic compounds as biomarkers for urological cancers: a systematic review of GC-MS-based volatolomics.

  Metabolomics, Jul 2026

• Circulating metabolite biomarkers associated with prostate cancer risk in Black Americans: findings from the Southern Community Cohort Study.

  Br J Cancer, Jun 2026

• Multi-omics integration predicts the incidence of 17 diseases in the UK Biobank.

  Nat Commun, May 2026

• Rapid Noninvasive Classification of Prostatic Disease Using Paper Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (PSI-MS)-Based Nontargeted Metabolomics.

  Anal Chem, Apr 2026

• An enrichment-based approach to interpreting metabolomic data using differential metabolomic profiles within the iDMET framework.

  BMC Bioinformatics, Apr 2026

• Effects of daily multivitamin-multimineral supplementation on metabolomic profiles: 2-year findings from the COSMOS randomized clinical trial.

  Geroscience, Mar 2026

• Activating NK cell immunity against prostate cancer with Hedysarum polybotrys Hand.-Mazz.: A multi-omics integration of computational prediction and experimental validation on PI3K/AKT and PD-1/PD-L1 axes.

  J Ethnopharmacol, Mar 2026

• Cell metabolomics to reveal the mechanism of saponins and alkaloids on prostate inflammation via COX and LOX pathways.

  Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat, Mar 2026

• Prostate cancer: metabolic remodelling in expressed prostatic secretions reveals cellular structural changes measured by mpMRI.

  Mol Omics, Mar 2026

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