Type 2 diabetes: who works on it

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• All targets
• GLP-1 66
• SGLT2 40
• PPAR 0
• AMPK 2
• DPP-4 7
• PI3K 0
• AKT 0
• GIP 4
• mTOR 0
• NRF2 0
• NLRP3 3
• SIRT1 1
• STAT3 0
• TP53 1
• TNF 0
• MAPK 0
• PCSK9 1
• VEGF 2
• JNK 0
• TLR4 0
• FTO 0
• IL-6 2
• ERK 0
• HIF-1 0
• JAK 0
• HMGB1 0
• APOE 0
• BDNF 0
• IL-1 1
• STING 0
• CTNNB1 0
• GPX4 0
• PTEN 0
• STK11 0
• IL-17 1
• MMP-9 1
• BCL-2 0
• COX-2 0
• MEK 0
• PINK1 0
• CD40 0
• EGFR 0
• PD-1 0
• RANKL 0
• YAP 0
• ATM 0
• FGFR 0
• MET 1
• PD-L1 0
• SNCA 0
• CCR5 0
• CDKN2A 0
• CXCR4 0
• IGF1R 0
• MAPT 0
• METTL3 0
• PNPLA3 0
• ABL1 0
• BACE1 0
• CD38 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-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

  Glutaminase Isoenzymes: Gatekeepers of Bioenergetics, Immunity, and Tumor Microenvironment in Diabetes-Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (IRM)

  Fundacion Para la Investigacion de Malaga En Biomedicina y Salud· Malaga, Spain· EU contribution €209,915· until Aug 2029

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

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

  Unmasking the Perivascular Adipose Tissue's Role in Diabetic Vascular Disease From Molecular Clues to Clinical Impact (IMAPERFAT)

  Karolinska Institutet· Stockholm, Sweden· EU contribution €236,340· until Mar 2029

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

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

  Bridging Chronobiology and Physiology through Expert Training (ChronoBridge)

  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne· Lausanne, Switzerland· EU contribution €3,885,022· until Dec 2030· 9 countries

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

• European Commission (Horizon Europe) · HORIZON-ERC

  AI-Powered and Robot-Assisted Opto-Acoustic Evaluation of Systemic Microangiopathy for Ulcer Healing Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes (ARETEOS)

  Universitatsklinikum Erlangen· Erlangen, Germany· EU contribution €1,499,068· until Dec 2031

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

  First-in-man beta-cell regeneration for causal type 2 diabetes therapy (BetaProtect)

  Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum Fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt Gmbh· Neuherberg, Germany· EU contribution €150,000· until Apr 2028

5 of 59 running projects, newest first. Listed amounts together: €152.4m.

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 26
• Organoids 3
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis 228
• CRISPR-Cas Systems 5
• Gene Expression Profiling 113
• Sequence Analysis, RNA 8
• Whole Genome Sequencing 8
• Exome Sequencing 12
• Proteomics 148
• Metabolomics 202
• Mass Spectrometry 42
• Flow Cytometry 19
• Immunohistochemistry 50
• Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays 34
• Positron-Emission Tomography 31
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 186
• Machine Learning 195
• Deep Learning 32
• Cohort Studies 1111
• Genome-Wide Association Study 315

• Clinical and molecular epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated intestinal Staphylococcus aureus colonization.

  Microbiol Spectr, Sept 2026

• Colocalization of eQTLs With Type 2 Diabetes and Glycemic Traits Using Whole-Genome Sequences in Diverse Populations From the NHLBI Trans-Omics in Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program.

  Diabetes, Aug 2026

• Faroese whole genomes provide insight into ancestry and recent selection.

  Elife, Jun 2026

• Staphylococcus argenteus ST2250 from diabetic foot sepsis: genomic insights into resistance and virulence.

  Front Cell Infect Microbiol, Apr 2026

• A novel simulation tool for low-coverage whole-genome sequencing using multivariate Gaussian mixture models.

  BMC Bioinformatics, Feb 2026

• Type 2 diabetes mellitus wake-up call: fatal streptococcal toxic shock syndrome triggered by the M1(UK) Streptococcus pyogenes - a case report with genomic insights.

  BMC Infect Dis, Feb 2026

• A novel inversion at 17q12 disrupting HNF1B gene in a patient with renal cysts and diabetes syndrome.

  BMC Med Genomics, Feb 2026

• A case of Chryseobacterium taklimakanense bacteremia.

  BMC Infect Dis, Jan 2026

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