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Childhood Absence Epilepsy: later-stage trial registry

1 of 4 indexed Childhood Absence Epilepsy trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #4,115 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

4 US clinical trials · 1 currently recruiting · #4,115 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Childhood Absence Epilepsy: 4 US clinical trials tracked, 1 recruiting.

Childhood Absence Epilepsy is the subject of 4 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 1 of them currently open to new participants. 3 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 0 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is UCB Biopharma SRL, running 2 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition childhood-absence-epilepsy

OPEN 1 | RECR 25% | LATE 3 | EARLY 0 | RANK #4115 | SPON 2

Nearest open-share peer: Abdominal Cancer (25% recruiting · 8 trials)

Ablation80%ACL Reconstruction80%Abuse, Drug60%Acceptability60%Childhood Absence Epilep (th…25%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Childhood Absence Epilepsy

Childhood Absence Epilepsy lists 1 open slots (25% of 4 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Childhood Absence Epilepsy on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Childhood Absence Epilepsy is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    1 of 4 indexed trials (25%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

Phase 33

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 3 3

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Childhood Absence Epilepsy records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Valproic acid Drug
1 trials
Ethosuximide Drug
1 trials
Brivaracetam oral solution Drug
1 trials
Brivaracetam Film-coated tablet Drug
1 trials
Brivaracetam Drug
1 trials
Lamotrigine Drug
1 trials
Placebo Other
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Childhood Absence Epilepsy trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Florida 3 trials
California 3 trials
Alabama 3 trials
New York 2 trials
New Jersey 2 trials
North Carolina 2 trials
Georgia 2 trials
Colorado 2 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Childhood Absence Epilepsy page

4 registered trials, 1 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

  • 1 Childhood Absence Epilepsy trials are currently recruiting, check eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • UCB Biopharma SRL sponsors the most Childhood Absence Epilepsy trials on record, review their full trial history before evaluating a specific study. See UCB Biopharma SRL's trials
  • Bring the specific trial ID (NCT number) to your own doctor before enrolling, this page is a directory, not medical guidance. Read the trial-finding guide

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Childhood Absence Epilepsy condition card totals 4 registered trials; most-linked intervention Valproic acid; top US site state Florida. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.