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Liver Transplantation: later-stage trial registry

4 of 13 indexed Liver Transplantation trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #1,315 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

13 US clinical trials · 4 currently recruiting · #1,315 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Liver Transplantation: 13 US clinical trials tracked, 4 recruiting.

Liver Transplantation is the subject of 13 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 4 of them currently open to new participants. 4 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 2 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Astellas Pharma Europe, running 1 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition liver-transplantation

OPEN 4 | RECR 31% | LATE 4 | EARLY 2 | RANK #1315 | SPON 1

Nearest open-share peer: Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (31% recruiting · 13 trials)

ACL Injury61.5%Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia46.2%Liver Transplantation (this)31%Accidental Falls30.8%Actinic Keratoses23.1%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Liver Transplantation

Liver Transplantation lists 4 open slots (31% of 13 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 Liver Transplantation 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. Liver Transplantation is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    4 of 13 indexed trials (30.8%) 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. Sponsorship of Liver Transplantation trials is spread across many organizations.

    Astellas Pharma Europe accounts for 1 of 13 trials (7.7%). 13 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Liver Transplantation enrolment sits around 120 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 120 among the 13 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 6 of those (46.2%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Liver Transplantation research is mostly interventional.

    10 interventional and 3 observational studies make up this index (76.9% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 11Phase 21Phase 32Phase 42

Open and recent trials

13 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING Phase 4 220 participants

HOPE Against Cancer Recurrence in HCC

Philipp Dutkowski

NCT06717919

RECRUITING NA 80 participants

Mediterranean Diet Post-liver Transplantation

Mayo Clinic

NCT04672863

RECRUITING Phase 4 50 participants

Reducing Pain With Methadone and Ketamine in Liver Transplant

Lahey Clinic

NCT06868589

RECRUITING Phase 1 12 participants

Immune Tolerance Induction After Liver Transplantation

University of California, Los Angeles

NCT07269041

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 1,500 participants

Molecular Assessment and Profiling of Liver Transplant Recipients

CareDx

NCT04793360

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 500 participants

Social & Contextual Impact on Children Undergoing Liver Transplantation

University of California, San Francisco

NCT04551742

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 120 participants

Continued Access Study to Evaluate Performance of the Organ Recovery Systems _LifePort® Liver Transporter System, a Machine Perfusion System, for Liver Transplant (PILOT™_CA)

Organ Recovery Systems

NCT05574361

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 18 participants

Sequential Hypo- and Normo-thermic Perfusion to Preserve Extended Criteria Donor Livers for Transplantation

Koji Hashimoto

NCT04023773

COMPLETED Phase 3 850 participants

Study to Ascertain if Prolonged Release Tacrolimus (FK506E - MR4) is Safe and Effective When Used in the Long Term and in Combination With Other Immunosuppressive Drugs in Patients Who Have Received a Transplant

Astellas Pharma Europe

NCT02118896

COMPLETED Phase 3 285 participants

Efficacy and Safety of Everolimus in Liver Transplant Recipients of Living Donor Liver Transplants

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

NCT01888432

COMPLETED Phase 2 161 participants

Immunosuppression Withdrawal for Stable Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

NCT01638559

COMPLETED NA 52 participants

Study of Resistance Strengthening Versus Ambulation Post-Liver Transplant

University of Miami

NCT01216722

COMPLETED 30 participants

Hemodynamic Measurements During Liver Transplantation

Washington University School of Medicine

NCT00682110

Phase Distribution

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

Named interventions

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

Immunosuppression withdrawal Drug
1 trials
Resistance Strengthening Exercise Program Other
1 trials
FK506E Drug
1 trials
Standard tacrolimus Drug
1 trials
Everolimus + reduced tacrolimus Drug
1 trials
Hypothermic Machine Perfusion Device
1 trials
LiverCare Device
1 trials
Liver Machine Perfusion (MP) device Device
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Liver Transplantation trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Ohio 7 trials
California 5 trials
New York 4 trials
Missouri 3 trials
Michigan 3 trials
Massachusetts 3 trials
Georgia 3 trials
Texas 2 trials

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

What to do with this Liver Transplantation page

13 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 Liver Transplantation condition card totals 13 registered trials; most-linked intervention Immunosuppression withdrawal; top US site state Ohio. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.