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Premature Birth: full-pipeline trial registry

21 of 39 indexed Premature Birth trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #382 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

39 US clinical trials · 21 currently recruiting · #382 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Premature Birth: 39 US clinical trials tracked, 21 recruiting.

Premature Birth is the subject of 39 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 21 of them currently open to new participants. 3 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 2 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, running 3 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition premature-birth

OPEN 21 | RECR 54% | LATE 3 | EARLY 2 | RANK #382 | SPON 3

Nearest open-share peer: Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (54% recruiting · 13 trials)

Premature Birth (this)54%B-cell Lymphoma46.2%Binge-Eating Disorder43.6%Kidney Diseases38.5%Acute Myelogenous Leukemia17.9%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Premature Birth

Premature Birth lists 21 open slots (54% of 39 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 Premature Birth 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. Premature Birth is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    21 of 39 indexed trials (53.8%) are open to enrollment, against a 39.7% average across 762 conditions with 20-99 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Premature Birth trials is spread across many organizations.

    Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago accounts for 3 of 39 trials (7.7%). 33 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Premature Birth enrolment sits around 120 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 120 among the 39 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 17 of those (43.6%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Premature Birth research is mostly interventional.

    28 interventional and 11 observational studies make up this index (71.8% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 22Phase 31Phase 42

Open and recent trials

39 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING 5,000 participants

Multisite Inventory of Neonatal-Perinatal Interventions (MINI) Minimum Dataset

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

NCT05685745

RECRUITING 3,000 participants

PPROM Registry (Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes)

American Alliance for pProm Support

NCT02997345

RECRUITING NA 750 participants

Fresh RX: NHS 2020

Washington University School of Medicine

NCT04845230

RECRUITING 500 participants

Post-Vent, the Sequelae: Personalized Prognostic Modeling for Consequences of Neonatal Intermittent Hypoxemia in Preterm Infants at Pre-School Age

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

NCT05336890

RECRUITING NA 460 participants

Optimizing Family Counseling for Anticipated Extremely Preterm Delivery

Boston Children's Hospital

NCT03819933

RECRUITING NA 329 participants

LATe Cerclage in High-risk Pregnancies (LATCH)

Thomas Jefferson University

NCT06036446

RECRUITING NA 300 participants

A Randomized Control Trial of a Responsive Parenting Intervention to Support Healthy Brain Development and Self-regulation in Toddlers Born Preterm

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

NCT04856501

RECRUITING NA 222 participants

Effects of a Physical Therapy Intervention on Motor Delay in Infants Admitted to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

NCT05568264

RECRUITING NA 216 participants

The Periviable GOALS Decision Support Tool

Indiana University

NCT05264779

RECRUITING NA 203 participants

Development of a Therapeutic Device to Improve Speech Sound Differentiation in Preterm Infants

Thrive Neuromedical

NCT06063122

RECRUITING Phase 4 200 participants

Prophylactic Minimally Invasive Surfactant Evaluation

Endeavor Health

NCT06007547

RECRUITING NA 124 participants

Nourishing Beginnings: Addressing Food Insecurity During Pregnancy

Case Western Reserve University

NCT05341960

RECRUITING 120 participants

Growing Little PEAPODS Study

University of Wisconsin, Madison

NCT06226051

RECRUITING NA 100 participants

Healing Tiny Minds: Rural Recovery Through Virtual and Lived Experience Care

University of Wisconsin, Madison

NCT06643598

RECRUITING 100 participants

Biomarkers Study in Infants With Prior Neonatal Brain Injury

University of Wisconsin, Madison

NCT07413900

RECRUITING Phase 4 88 participants

Outpatient Antibiotics Following Previable Rupture of Membranes (pPPROM) Between 18 0/7 and 22 6/7 Weeks Gestational Age

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

NCT05345457

RECRUITING 80 participants

Childhood Outcomes of Preterm Brain Abnormalities

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

NCT03410810

RECRUITING NA 30 participants

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Impact of Wearable, Wireless Breast Pumps on Frequency and Efficacy of Milk Expression in Mothers of Premature Infants

University of Texas at Austin

NCT06723067

RECRUITING NA 20 participants

Postpartum Care in the NICU (PeliCaN) Transitions

University of Pennsylvania

NCT06521398

RECRUITING NA 20 participants

Spinal Stimulation and Mobility Devices

University of Washington

NCT05520359

RECRUITING NA 10 participants

taVNS-Paired Breastfeeding to Improve Breastfeeding at Discharge

Medical University of South Carolina

NCT06417385

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 490 participants

Parent Training for Parents of Toddlers Born Very Premature:

Ohio State University

NCT05217615

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 120 participants

Prophylactic DR-CPAP on Late Preterm Infants Born by C-section: an RCT

University of Oklahoma

NCT05204719

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 99 participants

Local Version of the Multi-center PREVENT Study Evaluating Cardio-respiratory Instability in Premature Infants

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

NCT03655639

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 57 participants

Listening to Mom 2: Neural, Clinical and Language Outcomes

Stanford University

NCT04193579

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 38 participants

Exploring the Feasibility of Centering Pregnancy With Care Navigation

University of Arkansas

NCT05645549

COMPLETED NA 1,052 participants

Effect of Presenting Survival Information as Text or Pictograph During Periviable Birth Counseling

Medical College of Wisconsin

NCT04859114

COMPLETED NA 282 participants

Delayed Clamping and Milking the Umbilical Cord in Preterm Infants

TriHealth

NCT02092103

COMPLETED NA 193 participants

Welch Emotional Connection Screen (WECS) in the NICU

Columbia University

NCT04922242

COMPLETED Phase 2 130 participants

Randomized Trial Comparing Misoprostol and Foley Bulb for Labor Induction in the Preterm Gestation

University of Florida

NCT00325026

COMPLETED Phase 2 126 participants

Maternal Effects of Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) Treatment in Pregnancy

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NCT00153517

COMPLETED 90 participants

Comparing Rater Reliability of Familiar Practitioners to Blinded Coders

Columbia University

NCT03680157

COMPLETED NA 90 participants

Improving Brain Development in Medically Healthy Premature Infants

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NCT00065364

COMPLETED 75 participants

Evaluating the Effects of Kangaroo Care in the NICU

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

NCT04727125

COMPLETED NA 70 participants

Meditation for NICU Moms

St. Louis University

NCT03574766

COMPLETED 62 participants

Indomethacin PK and PD Therapy in Pregnancy

The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

NCT02451228

COMPLETED NA 49 participants

Pilot Trial of CenteringPregnancy With Mindfulness Skills

University of California, San Francisco

NCT01646463

COMPLETED Phase 3 44 participants

17OHP-C Dosing Among Obese Pregnant Women

University of South Florida

NCT03433040

COMPLETED 40 participants

Impact of Currently Recommended Postnatal Nutrition on Neonatal Body Composition

Vishal Pandey, M.D.

NCT02622373

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 2 2
Phase 3 1
Phase 4 2

Named interventions

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

Newborn Individualized Developmental Care Assessment Program Behavioral
1 trials
Displayed chance of survival Behavioral
1 trials
Format of outcome data presentation Behavioral
1 trials
Cord Milking Procedure
1 trials
17-Hydroxyprogesterone Capronate Drug
1 trials
CenteringPregnancy with Mindfulness Skills Behavioral
1 trials
Foley bulb Device
1 trials
NICU WECS Training Other
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Premature Birth trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Illinois 7 trials
Ohio 6 trials
California 5 trials
Wisconsin 4 trials
Texas 4 trials
Missouri 4 trials
Massachusetts 4 trials
Pennsylvania 3 trials

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

What to do with this Premature Birth page

39 registered trials, 21 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 Premature Birth condition card totals 39 registered trials; most-linked intervention Newborn Individualized Developmental Care Assessment Program; top US site state Illinois. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.