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Growth Hormone Deficiency: full-pipeline trial registry

5 of 17 indexed Growth Hormone Deficiency trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #1,004 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

17 US clinical trials · 5 currently recruiting · #1,004 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Growth Hormone Deficiency: 17 US clinical trials tracked, 5 recruiting.

Growth Hormone Deficiency is the subject of 17 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 5 of them currently open to new participants. 6 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 6 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Division A/S, running 3 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition growth-hormone-deficiency

OPEN 5 | RECR 29% | LATE 6 | EARLY 6 | RANK #1004 | SPON 3

Nearest open-share peer: Addiction (29% recruiting · 17 trials)

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Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Growth Hormone Deficiency

Growth Hormone Deficiency lists 5 open slots (29% of 17 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 Growth Hormone Deficiency 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. Growth Hormone Deficiency is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    5 of 17 indexed trials (29.4%) 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.

  2. One sponsor concentrates Growth Hormone Deficiency research.

    Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Division A/S accounts for 3 of 17 trials (17.6%). 13 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Growth Hormone Deficiency trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 42 among the 17 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 12 of those (70.6%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Growth Hormone Deficiency research is mostly interventional.

    13 interventional and 4 observational studies make up this index (76.5% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 13Phase 23Phase 33Phase 43

Open and recent trials

17 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING 4,000 participants

Chromosome 18 Clinical Research Center

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

NCT00227253

RECRUITING 900 participants

A US Non-interventional, Effectiveness and Safety Study of Patients Treated With SKYTROFA

Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Division A/S

NCT05820672

RECRUITING 500 participants

A Post-Authorisation Safety Study (PASS) of Patients Treated With Lonapegsomatropin

Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Division A/S

NCT05775523

RECRUITING Phase 2 42 participants

Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy for Retried Professional Football Players

Center for Neurological Studies

NCT04121780

RECRUITING Phase 4 40 participants

Effects of GH and Lirglutide on AgRP

Columbia University

NCT05681299

COMPLETED Phase 3 264 participants

A Trial to Compare the Efficacy and Safety of Once-weekly Lonapegsomatropin With Placebo and a Daily Somatropin Product in Adults With Growth Hormone Deficiency

Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Division A/S

NCT04615273

COMPLETED Phase 3 136 participants

Genotropin Study Assessing Use of Injection Pen

Pfizer

NCT00965484

COMPLETED NA 75 participants

Effects of Growth Hormone Administration on Cardiovascular Risk in Cured Acromegalics With Growth Hormone Deficiency

Massachusetts General Hospital

NCT00182091

COMPLETED Phase 1 50 participants

VRS-317 in Adult Subjects With Growth Hormone Deficiency

Versartis

NCT01359488

COMPLETED Phase 1 42 participants

Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Long Acting Human Growth Hormone (hGH) Product (MOD-4023) in Healthy Caucasian and Japanese Volunteers

OPKO Health

NCT02418767

COMPLETED Phase 2 35 participants

Testosterone and Growth Hormone for Bone Loss in Men

University of Pennsylvania

NCT00080483

COMPLETED 24 participants

Cardiovascular Risk in Growth Hormone Deficient Young Adult Males After Completing Growth Hormone Therapy

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

NCT00711061

COMPLETED Phase 4 20 participants

Endocrine Dysfunction and Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children With Optic Nerve Hypoplasia

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

NCT00140413

COMPLETED Phase 3 20 participants

Growth Hormone and Chromosome 18q- and Abnormal Growth

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

NCT00134420

COMPLETED Phase 2 18 participants

Phase 2 Study of LUM-201 in Children Who Have Previously Completed the LUM-201-01 Trial (OraGrowtH213)

Lumos Pharma

NCT05250063

COMPLETED Phase 4 17 participants

A Study to Optimize Growth Hormone Dosing in Children With Chronic Kidney Disease by Measuring IGF-1 Levels in Blood

Oregon Health and Science University

NCT00212758

COMPLETED Early Phase 1 16 participants

Low Dose Growth Hormone (GH) on Insulin Sensitivity and Cortisol Production Rates

Oregon Health and Science University

NCT00517062

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 3
Phase 2 3
Phase 3 3
Phase 4 3

Named interventions

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

Nutropin AQ Drug
3 trials
Placebo Drug
3 trials
Placebo Other
2 trials
VRS-317 Drug
1 trials
Lonapegsomatropin Drug
1 trials
Neuropsychological Testing Procedure
1 trials
Growth Factors Laboratory Testing Procedure
1 trials
Arginine and Clonidine Stimulation Testing Procedure
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Growth Hormone Deficiency trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

California 8 trials
Indiana 5 trials
Texas 4 trials
New York 4 trials
Missouri 4 trials
Minnesota 4 trials
Pennsylvania 3 trials
Oregon 3 trials

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

What to do with this Growth Hormone Deficiency page

17 registered trials, 5 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 Growth Hormone Deficiency condition card totals 17 registered trials; most-linked intervention Nutropin AQ; top US site state California. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.