Rheumatoid arthritis: who works on it

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• All targets
• JAK 9
• TNF 9
• STAT3 0
• IL-6 2
• PI3K 0
• NLRP3 0
• CD19 18
• MAPK 0
• HIF-1 0
• NRF2 0
• mTOR 0
• IL-17 0
• STING 0
• AKT 0
• RANKL 0
• PPAR 0
• COX-2 0
• IL-1 0
• TLR4 0
• CD20 2
• TP53 0
• ERK 0
• PD-1 1
• SIRT1 0
• BCMA 7
• GLP-1 0
• MMP-9 0
• CTLA-4 1
• CTNNB1 0
• GPX4 0
• JNK 0
• SGLT2 1
• VEGF 1
• CD40 0
• HMGB1 0
• AMPK 0
• APOE 0
• AQP4 0
• CCR5 0
• FGFR 0
• IL-15 1
• METTL3 0
• PKM2 0
• TYK2 0
• CD38 1
• CGRP 0
• CXCR4 0
• IDO1 0
• PD-L1 0
• TIGIT 0
• BTK 0
• CD47 0
• EGFR 0
• HDAC 0
• IDH 0
• IL-23 0
• IL-4 0
• KEAP1 0
• MEK 0
• MYC 0

1 of 1+ 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-TMA-MSCA-DN

  HARPNET – Harnessing Resolution Pharmacology for Next-Generation Therapeutics

  Queen Mary University of London· London, United Kingdom· EU contribution €4,793,228· until Sept 2030· 8 countries

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-RIA

  BSSL TARGETING THERAPY TOWARDS NON-IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE RA TREATMENT (SOL-116 - BEYOND)

  Lipum Ab· Umea, Sweden· EU contribution €7,995,375· until Jun 2029· 3 countries

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

  PRECISION-RA: Precision Immunotherapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

  University of Bristol· Bristol, United Kingdom· EU contribution €150,000· until Nov 2027

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  Advancing NANOmedicines to rewire tumoral MYeloid cells for next-generation cancer immunotherapies (My-NANO)

  Universiteit Gent· Gent, Belgium· EU contribution €2,499,750· until Apr 2031

  The disease is named only in the funder's project summary, not in the title.

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

  Development of Armored targeted CAR-T cells for immune reset of T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases (iCARUS)

  Weizmann Institute of Science· Rehovot, Israel· EU contribution €150,000· until Sept 2027

  The disease is named only in the funder's project summary, not in the title.

5 of 35 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: €169.1m.

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.

• A Study of Efficacy and Safety of Rosnilimab in Subjects with Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis (RENOIR)

  NCT06041269· AnaptysBio, Inc.· Source

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

• Single-Cell Analysis 43
• Organoids 3
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 98
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 1
• Gene Expression Profiling 122
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 17
• Exome Sequencing 2
• Proteomics 53
• Metabolomics 45
• Mass Spectrometry 8
• Flow Cytometry 33
• Immunohistochemistry 18
• Liquid Biopsy 1
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 2
• Positron-Emission Tomography 5
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 59
• Machine Learning 87
• Deep Learning 9
• Cohort Studies 162
• Genome-Wide Association Study 113

• Cell DiffErential Expression by Pooling (CellDEEP) highlights issues in differential gene expression in scRNA-seq.

  NAR Genom Bioinform, Oct 2026

• Small RNA sequencing identifies T cell-derived tsRNAs as novel biomarkers for diagnosis and clinical assessment of rheumatoid arthritis.

  Int Immunopharmacol, Aug 2026

• Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Revealed the Role of Interferon-Gamma Related Genes in Primary Sjögren's Syndrome.

  J Cell Mol Med, Aug 2026

• Immunological profiling of rheumatoid factor-positive primary Sjögren's syndrome by single-cell RNA sequencing.

  Front Immunol, Jun 2026

• Molecular classification of primary Sjögren's syndrome based on salivary gland omics.

  Arthritis Res Ther, Jun 2026

• Integrative Single-Cell RNA Sequencing and Spatial Transcriptomics Uncover Distinct Fibroblast-Macrophage Crosstalk in Human Hip Synovium Between Patients With Femoroacetabular Impingement and Osteoarthritis.

  Arthritis Rheumatol, May 2026

• Characteristics of peripheral blood neutrophil subsets in patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome based on single-cell RNA sequencing.

  Front Immunol, May 2026

• Integrated analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing, transcriptomics, and thermal proteome profiling identifies PLCG1 as the therapeutic target of isopimpinellin in treating rheumatoid arthritis.

  Cell Mol Biol Lett, Apr 2026

• Identification of rheumatoid arthritis manganese metabolism-related diagnostic biomarkers through bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing analysis.

  Clin Rheumatol, Mar 2026

• Revealing Metabolic Reprogramming Genes as Biomarkers of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Bioinformatics Study Based on Ensemble Learning Approach and Single Cell RNA Sequencing.

  Endocr Metab Immune Disord Drug Targets, Jan 2026

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