Bringing medical advances from the lab to the clinic.(点击👆,免费获取美国NIH基金资助项目大数据分析)胰腺癌(Pancreatic Cancer)以胰腺导管腺癌(PDAC)最为常见,具有起病隐匿、早期转移、对化疗/免疫治疗敏感性差的特点,长期总体生存率低,仍是肿瘤学中预后最差的实体瘤之一。近年关键进展围手术期/新辅助治疗地位上升:对边界可切或可切除患者,基于 FOLFIRINOX 的新辅助方案被越来越多试验与指南采纳,以期提高切除率与长期疗效。基因驱动/靶向治疗的临床化尝试(BRCA/PARP 等):对携带胚系 BRCA 突变的患者,铂类化疗后以 PARP 抑制剂(如 olaparib)维持可延长无进展期,成为可选的精准治疗路径。针对 KRAS 的变异型抑制剂进入临床探索;早筛与液体活检技术进步:新型 KRAS G12D 小分子抑制剂(如 MRTX1133)已进入早期人体试验,显示出在胰腺癌中重要的研发前景;同时基于血浆 cfDNA 甲基化或蛋白/酶活性的多癌种早筛(如 Galleri、PAC-MANN)与 ctDNA-MRD 检测正在快速发展,为早期诊断与术后复发监测提供新工具。主要临床痛点早诊率极低,诊断多在晚期 —— 大量患者在不可切或转移阶段确诊,错过根治性手术窗口;现有早筛方法尚未在一般人群中确立可行的低成本高敏感方案。总体疗效改善有限,转移/难治病人预后差 —— 虽有新方案延缓进展,但总体生存仍短、可治愈患者比例低。肿瘤分子异质性与可及性矛盾 —— 虽发现若干可“drug-gable”突变(BRCA、NTRK、部分 KRAS亚型等),但基因检测、靶向药物的可及性与疗效人群受限。免疫治疗总体无效且临床推广受限 —— 胰腺肿瘤的免疫抑制微环境使大多数免疫检查点抑制剂失效,仅在少数 MSI-H 患者中可见持续反应。术后/术中管理与微小残留病(MRD)指导策略尚不成熟 —— ctDNA-MRD 虽有希望用于风险分层与辅助治疗决策,但尚缺大规模前瞻性证据以改变常规实践。新药从实验室到临床失败率高、时间长 —— 许多针对基质/基质-肿瘤相互作用(例如早期的基质靶向)或小分子靶点在临床中未能显著改善生存,研发成本与失败风险高。患者支持性治疗与多学科协作仍不均衡 —— 疼痛、营养、并发症管理及围术期支持在不同地区差异大,影响生活质量与治疗容忍性。胰腺癌研究既有令人鼓舞的方向(新辅助策略、靶向 KRAS/BRCA 路径、液体活检与早筛技术),也面临早诊难、总体疗效改善有限与分子靶向/免疫可及性不足等顽固问题;未来关键在于把“早筛-分子分层-个体化组合治疗”这条链条真正在临床中落地并普及。我们仅对美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)资助的在研胰腺癌相关项目进行梳理,希望给同仁们的选题思路提供一点启发。2025年,以 "Pancreatic Cancer"为检索词、在题目中进行检索,美国NIH针对胰腺癌的在研有306项。一,谁获得了这些研究?1. 在研基金最多的PI:JAFFEE, ELIZABETH M,约翰·霍普金斯大学(JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)YEH, JEN JEN,北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校(UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL)PASCA DI MAGLIANO, MARINA,密歇根大学安娜堡分校(UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR)2,基金最多的研究机构JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY约翰斯·霍普金斯大学UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR密歇根大学安娜堡分校UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR德克萨斯大学MD安德森癌症中心UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER内布拉斯加大学医学中心UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校二,研究热点研究领域总览(根据关键词)研究大的方向也包括临床试验(Clinical Trials)、代谢(Metabolism)、T细胞(T Cell)、肿瘤生长(Tumor Growth)、生存率(Survival Rate)、免疫检查点(Immune Checkpoint)等。三,借鉴与突破我们也分享在该领域的几项课题摘要,希望对同仁们有所启发。A,Transforming Human Pancreatic Cancer Into An Immunologic DiseasePancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is rising in incidence but remains deadly for most patients. Some progress has occurred in activating immune responses against PDA, however there are unanswered questions that need to be addressed for immunotherapy to have a significant impact on the lives of PDA patients. Our Team will address two critical problems: 1) inefficient generation of high quality T cells targeted against PDA antigens capable of tumor trafficking and killing; and 2) multiple cellular barriers that comprise stromal and myeloid cells that inhibit effector T cell trafficking and function in the PDA tumor microenvironment (TME). Both clinical studies (“science in patients”) and pre-clinical studies (mouse models) will be conducted to address these issues, and to evaluate novel combinatorial therapies that successfully modulate PDA stroma and chronic inflammation to facilitate improved tumor infiltration of high quality and durable cancer targeted T cells. This program is composed of 4 Projects and 4 Cores. The four projects will address the common overarching theme that PDA is composed of multiple cell types and signals that inhibit T cell induction, trafficking into, and function in tumors. Each project will address either the induction of quality T cells or the modulation of suppressive cell populations as major barriers to T cell infiltration and activation, and all will integrate agents that bypass these suppressive mechanisms with optimal T cell therapies. Projects 1, 2, and 4 will combine ongoing preclinical studies aimed at uncovering mechanisms of suppression of different barriers with translational clinical trials that study combination therapy to bypass these suppressive mechanisms. Project 3 will conduct a biomarker heavy clinical trial using a multi-arm Platform design that will add and delete immune modulatory arms based on data from biomarker analysis in this Project and from data that feeds into this Project from the other 3 Projects. Standard procedures will be used across Projects to collect and bank serial biospecimens obtained from patients treated on the clinical trials. The Cores will be critical for conducting the proposed assays and for analysis and integration of the data. A Program database will be developed to allow for integration of data generated from these assays across the entire Program. This will be a unique database that will also bring in data from other sources such as the TCGA database, and will provide the Program Team with the ability to compare results based on the genetics and inflammatory composition of each patient’s tumor and their response to the therapy they received. The final outcomes will include results from a number of therapeutic interventions, approaches to optimize each therapeutic, the potential to further integrate therapies that were tested in one or more projects in future trials, and the ability to develop TME signatures that may further stratify patients for therapeutic interventions. This program will substantially accelerate progress in PDA therapy, and allow otherwise nearly impossible achievements in defining predictors of successful immunological therapeutic intervention for PDAs.B, Preclinical drug development in pancreatic cancerMy laboratory aims to address the unmet medical need for more effective treatments for patients afflicted by pancreas and other solid organ cancers by developing new cancer drugs. Scientific achievements with regard to the pursued drug development projects in the last year include: 1. Identification of a clinically safe dose level of metarrestin, a first-in-class small molecule targeting genome organization in metastatic cancer cells. Metarrestin is a novel, first-in-class small molecule inhibitor with selective activity against the metastatic phenotype of cancer cells. Metarrestin is currently administered to patients with advanced malignancies in escalating doses to determine safety and tolerability of the drug. PK data from the first 28 patients treated with metarrestin identified a safe regimen of a loading dose followed by a maintenance dose as safe, which achieves therapeutic levels in tumoral lesions. A robust population PK (popPK) model has been generated with a near perfect fit between measured and simulated PK. Recent preclinical work has shown that metarrestin inhibits the assembly of the small subunit (SSU) processome, a large ribonucleoprotein particle which organizes the assembly of the small ribosomal subunit by coordinating the folding, cleavage, and modification of nascent pre-ribosomal RNA (rRNA). Metarrestin leads to disruption of the diffuse fibrillar compartment (DFC) of the nucleolus. DFC biomolecular condensate particles with partially processed rRNA species are translocated from the nucleolus to the nucleus where they activate the exosome complex (PM/Scl complex) blocking p53 activation. The lack of p53 activation and induced cell death is a sentinel distinguishing feature of metarrestin to other polymerase I inhibitors and presumed to be related to the favorable clinical safety profile. 2. Preclinical development and clinical translation of innate checkpoint modulators targeting CD206 on tumor associated macrophages (TAMs). Prior work of ours has shown that the mannose receptor CD206 on M2-like TAMs functions as an immune checkpoint. CD206 activation reprograms TAMs from a pro-tumor, immune suppressive to an anti-tumor, inflammatory phenotype and CD206 ligation is able to reinvigorate innate anti-tumor responses via direct cancer cell phagocytosis. Due to its restricted expression, CD206 is an attractive target for novel cancer immunotherapy in immunologically 'cold' cancers which currently do not respond to T cell activation via immune checkpoint inhibition. Our group has via in silico screening of large chemical libraries identified a phenyl-imidoazo[2,3] pyrazine-based small molecule drug candidate, NCGC72, which has recently been selected for IND enabling studies and clinical translation by the Therapeutic Development Branch (TDB), NCATS. NCGC72 induces tumor regressions across murine and human preclinical cancer models. NCGC72 has no discernable off-target activity and showed a large therapeutic window in preclinical safety and toxicity studies due to remarkable selectivity for tumoral CD206 isoforms. The selectivity for CD206 expressed on TAMs is due to its unique glycosylation state which is characterized by decreased sialylation of select amino acid residues in the vicinity of the binding region of NCGC72 interfering with access of the small molecule to the receptor. The lack of activation of immune cells residing in normal organs is a distinguishing a feature to immune checkpoint inhibition with PD-1/PD-L1 or CTLA-4 blockade. NCGC72 is currently evaluated in a dedicated phase I/II study for safety, tolerability, and efficacy in sarcoma-bearing dogs. After acceptance of NCGC72 as a clinical candidate by the TDB, NCATS, manufacturing of GMP drug substance for both GLP safety and toxicokinetic studies and clinical grade product for human phase I testing has been completed with IND filing estimated in 2025 and start of clinical testing in 2026. Additional preclinical work has shown that NCGC72's reprogramming of CD206high, M2-like TAMs towards a proinflammatory phenotype via the induction of an interferon type I response is the main anti-tumor mechanism as blockade of NCGC72-mediated M2-like cell killing recruits TAMs towards enhanced cancer cell phagocytosis and tumor control. Current work expanding on these findings is studying (1) rationale designed drug combinations of immune-oncology agents with NCGC72, and (2) molecular markers to select tumors most likely to respond to NCGC72. Spurned by recent reports that CD206 positive macrophages mediate disease-causing processes in non-malignant conditions like eye disease or type II diabetes, we evaluated NCGC72 in a preclinical model of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. NCGC72 substantially reduced sub-retinal fibrosis and vitriol hemorrhages, causes of blindness in diabetic retinopathy and we are currently evaluating NCGC72 in a preclinical model of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and liver fibrosis.天下科研,唯快不破。看了上述检索结果,对您有什么启发?赶快行动吧。如果您需要HS提供类似的选题大数据分析,可阅读下面的推文:应用这个“外挂”,他的选题思路源源不断、文章不断发表!关键词: #美国基金解析;#Hanson临床科研;#Healsan医路成长作者:Amber Wang,助理:ChatGPT美国Healsan(恒祥医学),专长于Healsan™医学大数据分析、基于大数据的HansonCR™临床科研支持,以及MedEditing™的医学编辑服务。主要为医院科研处、生物制药公司和医生科学家提供数据分析和SCI报告,成为诸多机构的“临床科研外挂”。网址:https://healsan.com/