Melanotan 2
Melanotan 2 appears in 311 indexed publications going back to 1992, including 15 in the past twelve months. 24 registered trials appear on ClinicalTrials.gov, 3 with Australian sites.
On This Figure
Overlaps with afamelanotide, the closely related approved analogue, which carries much of the clinical literature.
Publication history
How much work has been indexed each year, from Europe PMC. Momentum is measured over a trailing twelve months rather than calendar years, so a partial current year never reads as a decline.
Publications per year. The final bar is the current year, still in progress.
| 2015 | 18 |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2020 | 16 |
| 2021 | 22 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 19 |
| 2025 | 12 |
| 2026 | 13 |
Who is looking it up
Monthly readers of the Melanotan 2 article on English Wikipedia. An independent measure of curiosity, which often moves quite differently from the evidence.
The registered pipeline
3 trials have a registered Australian site.
Phase distribution across the most recently updated registered trials.
- Completed·Phase 1
Pharmacokinetics of Afamelanotide in Erythropoietic Protoporphyria Patients
Clinuvel Europe Limited · completed 2024-10-28
- Recruiting·Phase 2
Hudson Biotech · estimated completion 2027-02-14
- Active, not recruiting·Phase 3
Clinuvel, Inc. · completed 2025-12
- Completed·Phase 2
Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Afamelanotide in Patients With Variegate Porphyria (VP)
Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals Limited · completed 2023-12-28
- Completed·Phase 2
Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals Limited · completed 2016-02-02
- Completed·Phase 2Australian site
Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals Limited · completed 2022-02-04
Most recent work
The newest indexed records mentioning Melanotan 2, listed by publication date. Titles are shown as published and link to their source. Inclusion here is a record of what exists, not a judgement of what it shows.
- 2026-09-01·Sexual medicine reviews
Vasylieva V, West A, Karpman E. et al.
- 2026-09-01·Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology
Griffin LL, Kiss O, Halai P et al.
- 2026-03-02·Photochemistry and photobiology
Shetty N, Quiñonez RL, Ceresnie MS et al.
- 2026-07-01·Missouri medicine
Dangers of Injectable Peptides and Other Unregulated "Biohacking" Drugs
Moiz A, O'Keefe EL, O'Keefe JH. et al.
- 2026-07-08·Cureus
A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials for Vitiligo Therapies Published Between 2013 and 2023
Maverakis Ramirez N, Jaeger ZJ, Lee DJ. et al.
- 2026-04-16·Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society
Anderson CF, Wang X, Schneider JP. et al.
- 2026-01-14·Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
Chawathe A, Sharma N. et al.
- 2026-03-01·Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy
Barman-Aksözen J, Granata F, Wäscher S et al.
Melanotan 2 available from Polaris Research
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Sources
Publication data from Europe PMC. Clinical trial data from ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Public attention from Wikimedia pageview data. Evidence grades from reptides.co. We report counts and dates from these sources and link every record to its origin, we do not summarise findings. Last synced 2026-10-25.