Research

Scientific research can be confusing and overwhelming. We not only fund research, but we also help you understand RET-positive research and what it means for current treatment options and future therapies.

Research Funding

We fund and facilitate research for treatments so that more RET-positive lung cancer patients will live fuller, healthier lives.

Our researchers are investigating resistance to currently available targeted therapies, including: 

  • Identifying new, more effective combination therapies for RET-inhibitor resistant disease 
  • Testing innovative adaptive T cell therapies such as TCR immunotherapies for RET cancers
  • Generating new RET cancer preclinical models, including cell likes and patient-derived xenograft mouse models

We also work closely with the offices of leading cancer research institutions to assist them in securing grant funding for continued RET-positive research. 

Since our inception in 2021, we have awarded more than $1 million in RET-positive cancer research grants and facilitated an additional $1 million in research funding.

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Webinars

We host webinars that bring together members of the scientific community with patients and caregivers to explain the latest research findings.

2024 RET Research Update

2023 RET Research Update

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More About Research

2025 ret cancer research update
2025 RET Cancer Research Update

2025 RET Cancer Research Update

Your investment in The Happy Lungs Project has resulted in…
December 19, 2025 Read More
lung cancer treatment research biomarker testing
The Role of Biomarker Testing in Early-Stage NSCLC: Why It’s Not Just for Advanced Disease

The Role of Biomarker Testing in Early-Stage NSCLC: Why It’s Not Just for Advanced Disease

Advances in biomarker science are reshaping how patients are diagnosed…
December 15, 2025 Read More
2025 RET Research Update with Pharma sponsors
2025 RET Webinar: Meet Our Speakers

2025 RET Webinar: Meet Our Speakers

The 2025 RET Research Update is just around the corner,…
October 27, 2025 Read More
POISE cancer study
Join the POISE study at Massachusetts General Hospital

Join the POISE study at Massachusetts General Hospital

Join the study! Researchers have developed POISE, a short program…
October 23, 2025 Read More
IASLC ret cancer highlights 2025
RET Studies Presented at the IASLC 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer

RET Studies Presented at the IASLC 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer

The 2025 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer was held…
September 12, 2025 Read More
lung cancer genetic study database
Announcing the Lung Cancer Genetics Study Database

Announcing the Lung Cancer Genetics Study Database

A cancer diagnosis can be life-altering but with access to…
September 11, 2025 Read More
RET clinical study phase 2 ellipses
Ellipses’ RET inhibitor EP0031 advances to Phase 2 clinical trials

Ellipses’ RET inhibitor EP0031 advances to Phase 2 clinical trials

Ellipses’ next generation selective RET inhibitor EP0031 advances to Phase…
July 10, 2025 Read More
2025 ASCO meeting
RET Highlights Presented at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

RET Highlights Presented at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

RET Highlights Presented at the 2025 American Association for Cancer…
July 2, 2025 Read More
2025 AACR ret cancer
RET Highlights Presented at the 2025 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

RET Highlights Presented at the 2025 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

RET Highlights Presented at the 2025 American Association for Cancer…
May 29, 2025 Read More
View all RET research news

More About Research

2025 ret cancer research update
2025 RET Cancer Research Update

2025 RET Cancer Research Update

Your investment in The Happy Lungs Project has resulted in…
December 19, 2025 Read More
lung cancer treatment research biomarker testing
The Role of Biomarker Testing in Early-Stage NSCLC: Why It’s Not Just for Advanced Disease

The Role of Biomarker Testing in Early-Stage NSCLC: Why It’s Not Just for Advanced Disease

Advances in biomarker science are reshaping how patients are diagnosed…
December 15, 2025 Read More
2025 RET Research Update with Pharma sponsors
2025 RET Webinar: Meet Our Speakers

2025 RET Webinar: Meet Our Speakers

The 2025 RET Research Update is just around the corner,…
October 27, 2025 Read More
POISE cancer study
Join the POISE study at Massachusetts General Hospital

Join the POISE study at Massachusetts General Hospital

Join the study! Researchers have developed POISE, a short program…
October 23, 2025 Read More
IASLC ret cancer highlights 2025
RET Studies Presented at the IASLC 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer

RET Studies Presented at the IASLC 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer

The 2025 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer was held…
September 12, 2025 Read More
lung cancer genetic study database
Announcing the Lung Cancer Genetics Study Database

Announcing the Lung Cancer Genetics Study Database

A cancer diagnosis can be life-altering but with access to…
September 11, 2025 Read More
RET clinical study phase 2 ellipses
Ellipses’ RET inhibitor EP0031 advances to Phase 2 clinical trials

Ellipses’ RET inhibitor EP0031 advances to Phase 2 clinical trials

Ellipses’ next generation selective RET inhibitor EP0031 advances to Phase…
July 10, 2025 Read More
View all RET research news