Type 2 diabetes: who works on it

One card per institution. Pick a target or a country to narrow the list.

• All targets
• GLP-1 66
• SGLT2 41
• 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

10 of 10+ 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-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.

• Janus Kinase (JAK) Inhibitors to Preserve C-Peptide Production in New Onset Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)

  NCT05743244· National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)· Source

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 187
• Machine Learning 196
• Deep Learning 32
• Cohort Studies 1112
• 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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