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Chondral Defect: later-stage trial registry

4 of 4 indexed Chondral Defect 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 · 4 currently recruiting · #4,115 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Chondral Defect: 4 US clinical trials tracked, 4 recruiting.

Chondral Defect is the subject of 4 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 4 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 Vericel Corporation, running 2 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition chondral-defect

OPEN 4 | RECR 100% | LATE 3 | EARLY 0 | RANK #4115 | SPON 2

Nearest open-share peer: Aortic Arch Aneurysm (100% recruiting · 5 trials)

Chondral Defect (this)100%Ablation80%ACL Reconstruction80%Abuse, Drug60%Acceptability60%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Chondral Defect

Chondral Defect lists 4 open slots (100% 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 Chondral Defect 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. Chondral Defect is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    4 of 4 indexed trials (100%) 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

Top Sponsors

Named interventions

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

microfracture Procedure
1 trials
MACI Biological
1 trials
Bone Marrow Stimulation Procedure
1 trials
autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane Biological
1 trials
BMAC Biological
1 trials
Control Procedure
1 trials
Bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) Biological
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Chondral Defect trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Texas 2 trials
Massachusetts 2 trials
Wisconsin 1 trials
Pennsylvania 1 trials
Ohio 1 trials
Michigan 1 trials
Maryland 1 trials
Louisiana 1 trials

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

What to do with this Chondral Defect page

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

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 Chondral Defect condition card totals 4 registered trials; most-linked intervention microfracture; top US site state Texas. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.