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Cleft Palate: later-stage trial registry
2 of 10 indexed Cleft Palate trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.
Corpus placement: #1,724 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.
10 US clinical trials · 2 currently recruiting · #1,724 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count
Cleft Palate: 10 US clinical trials tracked, 2 recruiting.
Cleft Palate is the subject of 10 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 2 of them currently open to new participants. 2 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 1 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Jeff Murray, running 1 of these trials.
Enrollment posture brief
Registry condition cleft-palate
OPEN 2 | RECR 20% | LATE 2 | EARLY 1 | RANK #1724 | SPON 1
Volume-matched condition peers
Nearest open-share peer: Acral Lentiginous Melanoma (20% recruiting · 5 trials)
Cleft Palate lists 2 open slots (20% of 10 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 Cleft Palate 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.
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Cleft Palate is recruiting below its size-band peers.
2 of 10 indexed trials (20%) 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.
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Sponsorship of Cleft Palate trials is spread across many organizations.
Jeff Murray accounts for 1 of 10 trials (10%). 10 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.
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Most Cleft Palate trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.
Median target enrolment is 60 among the 10 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 8 of those (80%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.
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Cleft Palate splits between interventional and observational designs.
6 interventional and 4 observational studies make up this index (60% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Open and recent trials
10 total, page 1 of 1
Optimizing Perioperative Analgesia to Lower Pain Following Cleft Palate Surgery
Duke University
NCT06962306
QL vs LAI for Palatoplasty
Medical University of South Carolina
NCT06420336
Targeting Surgeons' Decision-Making for Cleft Lip Surgery
Tufts University
NCT03537976
Evaluation of Trigeminal Nerve Blockade
University of Florida
NCT03632044
FaceBase Biorepository
Jeff Murray
NCT01252264
Characterization of Cleft Lip and Palate Conditions in Guatemala
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
NCT04725370
Retrospective Study on the Outcome of Cleft Palate Repair: Comparing US Surgical and Ethicon Suture Materials
University of California, Davis
NCT00584272
Sleep and Behavior in Children With Cleft Palate
University of Michigan
NCT01046591
Efficacy of Oral Versus Intravenous Acetaminophen for Primary Pediatric Cleft Palate Repair
Loma Linda University
NCT01500109
Botulinum Toxin to Improve Cosmesis of Primary Cleft Lip Repair
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
NCT02247193
Phase Distribution
| Phase | Trial count |
|---|---|
| Phase 1 | 1 |
| Phase 4 | 2 |
Top Sponsors
Named interventions
Most-linked intervention names on Cleft Palate records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.
US sites by state
Facility locations filed on Cleft Palate trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.
Related
What to do with this Cleft Palate page
10 registered trials, 2 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.
- 2 Cleft Palate trials are currently recruiting, check eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
- Jeff Murray sponsors the most Cleft Palate trials on record, review their full trial history before evaluating a specific study. See Jeff Murray'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 Cleft Palate condition card totals 10 registered trials; most-linked intervention NA - survey instrument; top US site state North Carolina. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.