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Renal Cell Carcinoma: early-phase trial registry

50 of 122 indexed Renal Cell Carcinoma trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.

Corpus placement: #100 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

122 US clinical trials · 50 currently recruiting · #100 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Renal Cell Carcinoma: 122 US clinical trials tracked, 50 recruiting.

Renal Cell Carcinoma is the subject of 122 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 50 of them currently open to new participants. 10 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 90 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, running 7 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition renal-cell-carcinoma

OPEN 50 | RECR 41% | LATE 10 | EARLY 90 | RANK #100 | SPON 7

Nearest open-share peer: Ovarian Neoplasms (41% recruiting · 39 trials)

Renal Cell Carcinoma (this)41%Advanced Cancer36.6%Ulcerative Colitis36.6%Insulin Resistance26.2%Low Back Pain25.2%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Renal Cell Carcinoma

Renal Cell Carcinoma lists 50 open slots (41% of 122 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 Renal Cell Carcinoma 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. Renal Cell Carcinoma is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    50 of 122 indexed trials (41%) are open to enrollment, against a 37.1% average across 139 conditions with 100+ trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Renal Cell Carcinoma trials is spread across many organizations.

    M.D. Anderson Cancer Center accounts for 7 of 122 trials (5.7%). 87 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Renal Cell Carcinoma enrolment sits around 80 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 80 among the 122 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 69 of those (56.6%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Renal Cell Carcinoma research is mostly interventional.

    110 interventional and 12 observational studies make up this index (90.2% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 151Phase 239Phase 310

Open and recent trials

122 total, page 3 of 3

COMPLETED Phase 1 313 participants

Study of Cabiralizumab in Combination With Nivolumab in Patients With Selected Advanced Cancers

Five Prime Therapeutics

NCT02526017

COMPLETED Phase 1 194 participants

Nivolumab (BMS-936558; MDX-1106) in Combination With Sunitinib, Pazopanib, or Ipilimumab in Subjects With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) (CheckMate 016)

Bristol-Myers Squibb

NCT01472081

COMPLETED Phase 1 154 participants

BNC105P in Combination With Everolimus/Following Everolimus For Progressive Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Hoosier Cancer Research Network

NCT01034631

COMPLETED Phase 1 150 participants

A Study of XmAb®20717 in Subjects With Selected Advanced Solid Tumors

Xencor

NCT03517488

COMPLETED NA 141 participants

Renal Mass Registry

Mayo Clinic

NCT01887574

COMPLETED Phase 1 119 participants

Phase I Biomarker Study (BMS-936558)

Bristol-Myers Squibb

NCT01358721

COMPLETED Phase 2 92 participants

Study of IMO-2055 in Metastatic or Locally Recurrent Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma

Idera Pharmaceuticals

NCT00729053

COMPLETED Phase 2 70 participants

Reproducibility of 18F Uptake by Solid Tumors Using PET Imaging Following Intravenous Administration of (18F) Injection

GE Healthcare

NCT00918281

COMPLETED Phase 2 53 participants

Two and Three Dimensional Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound for Screening of Renal Cell Carcinoma Recurrence Following Cryoablation

Thomas Jefferson University

NCT02440334

COMPLETED Phase 1 38 participants

TPST-1120 as Monotherapy and in Combination With Nivolumab in Subjects With Advanced Cancers

Tempest Therapeutics

NCT03829436

COMPLETED Phase 2 37 participants

A Trial of Niraparib in BAP1 and Other DNA Damage Response (DDR) Deficient Neoplasms (UF-STO-ETI-001)

University of Florida

NCT03207347

COMPLETED Phase 1 29 participants

Neoadjuvant MEDI 4736 +/- Tremelimumab in Locally Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

Moshe Ornstein

NCT02762006

COMPLETED Phase 1 26 participants

A First in Man Study to Determine the Safety at Various Dose Levels of AGS-16M8F in Advanced Kidney Cancer

Astellas Pharma

NCT01114230

COMPLETED Phase 2 25 participants

Erlotinib and Sirolimus for the Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

University of Colorado, Denver

NCT00353301

COMPLETED Phase 2 25 participants

Study Testing the Biologic Activity and Safety of a Immunotherapeutic in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Advanced Stage Kidney Cancer in Combination With a Marketed Renal Cell Carcinoma Treatment

Argos Therapeutics

NCT00678119

COMPLETED NA 22 participants

Serial Ultrasound in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC)

Stanford University

NCT04508725

COMPLETED Phase 1 22 participants

Study Testing the Biologic Activity and Safety of an Immunotherapeutic in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Stage IV Kidney Cancer

Argos Therapeutics

NCT00272649

COMPLETED Phase 1 21 participants

Sorafenib and RAD001 Renal Cell Carcinoma

University of California, San Francisco

NCT00384969

COMPLETED 19 participants

Circulating Tumors Cells and Circulating Endothelial Cells in Renal Cell Carcinoma

University of Kansas

NCT01173445

COMPLETED Phase 2 14 participants

Study of CP-461 in Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Cancer

Astellas Pharma

NCT00036036

COMPLETED Phase 1 12 participants

IRX-2 Regimen Combined With Nivolumab in Recurrent/Metastatic Solid Tumors

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

NCT03758781

COMPLETED Phase 1 5 participants

A Phase Ib Study of Rad001 and Sutent to Treat Renal Cell Carcinoma

Daniel George, MD

NCT00788060

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Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 51
Phase 2 39
Phase 3 10

Named interventions

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

Nivolumab Drug
12 trials
Cabozantinib Drug
10 trials
Ipilimumab Drug
6 trials
Nivolumab Biological
5 trials
Sunitinib Drug
5 trials
Ipilimumab Biological
4 trials
Belzutifan Drug
4 trials
Pembrolizumab Drug
4 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Renal Cell Carcinoma trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

California 52 trials
Texas 43 trials
New York 31 trials
Massachusetts 29 trials
Florida 28 trials
Pennsylvania 25 trials
Illinois 21 trials
Georgia 20 trials

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

What to do with this Renal Cell Carcinoma page

122 registered trials, 50 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 Renal Cell Carcinoma condition card totals 122 registered trials; most-linked intervention Nivolumab; top US site state California. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.