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Richter Syndrome: early-phase trial registry

5 of 13 indexed Richter Syndrome trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.

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

13 US clinical trials · 5 currently recruiting · #1,315 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Richter Syndrome: 13 US clinical trials tracked, 5 recruiting.

Richter Syndrome is the subject of 13 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 5 of them currently open to new participants. 0 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 13 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is City of Hope Medical Center, running 3 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition richter-syndrome

OPEN 5 | RECR 38% | LATE 0 | EARLY 13 | RANK #1315 | SPON 3

Nearest open-share peer: Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma (38% recruiting · 13 trials)

ACL Injury61.5%Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia46.2%Richter Syndrome (this)38%Accidental Falls30.8%Actinic Keratoses23.1%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Richter Syndrome

Richter Syndrome lists 5 open slots (38% 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 Richter Syndrome 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. Richter Syndrome is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    5 of 13 indexed trials (38.5%) 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 Richter Syndrome research.

    City of Hope Medical Center accounts for 3 of 13 trials (23.1%). 10 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Richter Syndrome trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 27 among the 13 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 13 of those (100%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Richter Syndrome research is mostly interventional.

    13 interventional and 0 observational studies make up this index (100% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 17Phase 26

Open and recent trials

13 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING Phase 2 32 participants

Nemtabrutinib and Pembrolizumab for the Treatment of Richter Transformation, Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Subtype

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

NCT06863402

RECRUITING Phase 2 27 participants

Acalabrutinib, Venetoclax and Durvalumab for the Treatment of Richter Transformation From Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia or Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma

Mayo Clinic

NCT05388006

RECRUITING Phase 1 23 participants

Zanubrutinib in Combination With Odronextamab for the Treatment of Patients With Richter's Transformation

City of Hope Medical Center

NCT06735664

RECRUITING Phase 2 20 participants

Lisocabtagene Maraleucel, Nivolumab and Ibrutinib for the Treatment of Richter's Transformation

City of Hope Medical Center

NCT05672173

RECRUITING Phase 2 20 participants

Polatuzumab Vedotin in Combination With Chemotherapy in Subjects With Richter's Transformation

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

NCT04679012

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 2 69 participants

A Phase II Study of Venetoclax in Combination With Dose-adjusted EPOCH-R or R-CHOP for Patients With Richter's Syndrome

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

NCT03054896

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 55 participants

Duvelisib and Venetoclax in Relapsed or Refractory CLL or SLL or RS

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

NCT03534323

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 2 50 participants

Atezolizumab, Obinutuzumab, and Venetoclax in Treating Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma, or Relapsed or Refractory Richter Syndrome

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

NCT02846623

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 27 participants

Copanlisib and Nivolumab in Treating Patients With Richter's Transformation or Transformed Indolent Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

City of Hope Medical Center

NCT03884998

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 24 participants

Testing the Addition of an Immunotherapy Agent, Atezolizumab, When Given With the Usual Chemo-Immunotherapy Drug Combination (Rituximab Plus Gemcitabine and Oxaliplatin) for Relapsed/Refractory (That Has Come Back or Not Responded to Treatment) Transformed Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NCT03321643

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 5 participants

Epcoritamab in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Richter Syndrome

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

NCT06676033

COMPLETED Phase 1 27 participants

Study of Immunotherapy in Combination With Ublituximab and Umbralisib in Patients With Relapsed-refractory CLL or Richter's Transformation

TG Therapeutics

NCT02535286

COMPLETED Phase 1 7 participants

Duvelisib and Nivolumab in Treating Patients With Richter Syndrome or Transformed Follicular Lymphoma

David Bond, MD

NCT03892044

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 7
Phase 2 6

Named interventions

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

Biospecimen Collection Procedure
5 trials
Computed Tomography Procedure
4 trials
Bone Marrow Biopsy Procedure
4 trials
Venetoclax Drug
4 trials
Echocardiography Procedure
2 trials
Duvelisib Drug
2 trials
Nivolumab Biological
2 trials
Biopsy Procedure
2 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Richter Syndrome trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

California 5 trials
New York 4 trials
Ohio 3 trials
Massachusetts 3 trials
Texas 2 trials
Washington 1 trials
Pennsylvania 1 trials
Oregon 1 trials

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

What to do with this Richter Syndrome page

13 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 Richter Syndrome condition card totals 13 registered trials; most-linked intervention Biospecimen Collection; top US site state California. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.