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Short Bowel Syndrome: later-stage trial registry

5 of 18 indexed Short Bowel Syndrome trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #953 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

18 US clinical trials · 5 currently recruiting · #953 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Short Bowel Syndrome: 18 US clinical trials tracked, 5 recruiting.

Short Bowel Syndrome is the subject of 18 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 5 of them currently open to new participants. 10 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 3 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Zealand Pharma, running 4 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition short-bowel-syndrome

OPEN 5 | RECR 28% | LATE 10 | EARLY 3 | RANK #953 | SPON 4

Nearest open-share peer: Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (28% recruiting · 18 trials)

Short Bowel Syndrome (this)28%Arrhythmias, Cardiac27.8%Androgenetic Alopecia16.7%Anemia, Sickle Cell16.7%Acquired Immunodeficiency Sy5.6%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Short Bowel Syndrome

Short Bowel Syndrome lists 5 open slots (28% of 18 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 Short Bowel 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. Short Bowel Syndrome is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    5 of 18 indexed trials (27.8%) 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. One sponsor concentrates Short Bowel Syndrome research.

    Zealand Pharma accounts for 4 of 18 trials (22.2%). 10 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

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

    Median target enrolment is 88 among the 18 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 11 of those (61.1%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Short Bowel Syndrome research is mostly interventional.

    15 interventional and 3 observational studies make up this index (83.3% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 12Phase 21Phase 39Phase 41

Open and recent trials

18 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING Phase 3 90 participants

Efficacy And Safety Evaluation of Glepaglutide in Treatment of SBS

Zealand Pharma

NCT07197944

RECRUITING NA 40 participants

A Feasibility Study to Evaluate Safety and Probable Benefit of the Eclipse XL1 System for Distraction Enterogenesis in Adult and Pediatric Patients With Short Bowel Syndrome

Eclipse Regenesis

NCT05535361

RECRUITING NA 32 participants

A 90 Day, Phase 3,Open Labeled Exploratory Study of RELiZORB

Boston Children's Hospital

NCT03530852

RECRUITING Phase 2 18 participants

Phase 2 Study to Assess the Safety, PK, and PD of Sonefpeglutide (HM15912) in SBS-IF Subjects

Hanmi Pharmaceutical Company Limited

NCT04775706

RECRUITING Early Phase 1 6 participants

Open-Label Pilot Study With Crofelemer in Patients With Short Bowel Syndrome

Lindsey Russell, MD

NCT06326645

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 1,806 participants

Registry for Participants With Short Bowel Syndrome

Shire

NCT01990040

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 158 participants

Open-label Extension Trial to Evaluate the Long-term Safety of Apraglutide in Short Bowel Syndrome.

VectivBio

NCT05018286

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 145 participants

Evaluation of Long Term Safety and Efficacy of Glepaglutide in Treatment of SBS

Zealand Pharma

NCT03905707

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 129 participants

Evaluation of Long Term Safety and Efficacy of Glepaglutide in Treatment of SBS - Extension Trial

Zealand Pharma

NCT04881825

COMPLETED Phase 3 164 participants

Trial to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of Apraglutide in SBS-IF

VectivBio

NCT04627025

COMPLETED 142 participants

Pediatric Teduglutide Registry

Boston Children's Hospital

NCT04832087

COMPLETED Phase 3 106 participants

Efficacy And Safety Evaluation of Glepaglutide in Treatment of Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS)

Zealand Pharma

NCT03690206

COMPLETED Phase 3 88 participants

Open-Label Study of Teduglutide for Subjects With PN-Dependent Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS)

Shire

NCT00930644

COMPLETED Phase 3 84 participants

Safety and Efficacy Study of Teduglutide in Subjects With Short Bowel Syndrome

Shire

NCT00081458

COMPLETED Phase 3 61 participants

Long-term Safety and Efficacy Study of Teduglutide in Pediatric Participants With Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS)

Shire

NCT02954458

COMPLETED Early Phase 1 40 participants

Early Provision of Enteral Microlipid and Fish Oil to Infants With Enterostomy

Wake Forest University

NCT01306838

COMPLETED 25 participants

Measurement of Body Composition by Air Displacement Plethysmography in Pediatric Intestinal Failure Patients

Christopher Duggan

NCT02561819

COMPLETED Phase 4 8 participants

rtPA in in the Prevention of CVAD-Associated Thrombosis and Infection in Pediatric Patients With Short Bowel Syndrome

Lynn Malec

NCT02355743

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 2
Phase 2 1
Phase 3 9
Phase 4 1

Named interventions

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

Placebo Drug
3 trials
glepaglutide Drug
2 trials
Glepaglutide Drug
2 trials
teduglutide Drug
1 trials
MicroLipid and fish oil Dietary supplement
1 trials
Needle Device
1 trials
Syringe Device
1 trials
TED Drug
1 trials

US sites by state

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

Ohio 10 trials
New York 7 trials
Nebraska 7 trials
Massachusetts 7 trials
Tennessee 6 trials
Pennsylvania 6 trials
Minnesota 5 trials

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

What to do with this Short Bowel Syndrome page

18 registered trials, 5 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

  • 5 Short Bowel Syndrome trials are currently recruiting, check eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • Zealand Pharma sponsors the most Short Bowel Syndrome trials on record, review their full trial history before evaluating a specific study. See Zealand Pharma's trials
  • Bring the specific trial ID (NCT number) to your own doctor before enrolling, this page is a directory, not medical guidance. Read the trial-finding guide

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 Short Bowel Syndrome condition card totals 18 registered trials; most-linked intervention Placebo; top US site state Ohio. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.