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ORPHA:497188

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

low confidenceDisorder

Also known as: DIPG

Publications

5,276

Trials

102

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,333

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    5,276 matched papers (4,620 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialPresent

    102 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (32 recruiting in sample)

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

5,276

5,276 papers — among the better-studied rare conditions, though still a fraction of common-disease literature (breast cancer: over 700,000). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

5,276 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

4,620 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 5,276 · MeSH hits: 112

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,333

Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.

  1. 01
    Miciaccia M6 papers · 2026

    Research Laboratory for Woman and Child Health, Department of Pharmacy─Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Perrone MG6 papers · 2026

    Research Laboratory for Woman and Child Health, Department of Pharmacy─Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Scilimati A6 papers · 2026

    Research Laboratory for Woman and Child Health, Department of Pharmacy─Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Monje M5 papers · 2026

    Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (M.M.).

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Wang L5 papers · 2026

    Department of Oncology, Guangdong sanjiu Brain Hospital, No. 578, Shatai South Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, 510510, Guangdong Province, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Armenise D4 papers · 2026

    Research Laboratory for Woman and Child Health, Department of Pharmacy─Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Bouffet E4 papers · 2025

    Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 1E8, Canada.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Dun MD4 papers · 2026

    Precision Medicine Research Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia; Cancer Signalling Research Group, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia; Paediatric Program, Mark Hughes Foundation Centre for Brain Cancer Research, College of Health, Medicine & Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Evans M4 papers · 2026

    Faculty of medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Ferorelli S4 papers · 2026

    Research Laboratory for Woman and Child Health, Department of Pharmacy─Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

102

interventional trials for this specific condition

102 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; 32 currently recruiting in our sample.

Data as of 27 July 2026

102 interventional trials — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 98.5th percentile).

low confidence · 98.5th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

102 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.

Observational and natural-history studies

4 observational studies match this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

Recruiting or not-yet-recruiting

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma"

Run this search on Europe PMC

MeSH descriptor terms unioned into the query: Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma"

Interventional trials matched via: both (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).

Study-type breakdown: 102 interventional · 4 observational · 1 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase, mesh; with hits: phrase, mesh

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: DIPG

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • 1 synonym(s) dropped by stoplist (may under-count)
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
  • Publication count (5276) is extremely high with unknown/missing prevalence — treat as possible over-matching, not proven research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T17:36:03.802Z