Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Open enrollment with an early-phase pipeline tilt

According to ClinicalTrials.gov-derived indexes, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sits in the top decile of US sponsors by registered trial count (#42 of 15,742 sponsors by registered trial count).

781 total trials 112 currently recruiting 449 completed early-phase tilt top decile by trial count

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: 781 sponsored US clinical trials, 112 recruiting.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sponsors 781 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 112 of them currently recruiting, and 449 completed. 15 of these trials are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 492 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most-studied condition in this pipeline is Breast Cancer, with 53 trials.

Top-decile sponsor footprint

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ranks in the top decile of sponsors by registered trial count (#42 of 15,742 sponsors by registered trial count). Volume at this scale usually reflects a long institutional pipeline, read phase tilt and therapeutic areas below before treating it as current-year activity.

Trial completion reliability score

F 49/100

449 of 537 decided trials (Completed vs. Terminated on ClinicalTrials.gov) reached their planned completion (83.6%), vs. national p10 68.4% / p90 100% among 1,234 sponsors with at least 10 decided trials. Still-open trials (Recruiting, Active-not-recruiting, Not-yet-recruiting) are excluded since they have not reached an outcome yet.

Open and recent trials

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COMPLETED NA

Genetic Counseling Processes and Outcomes Among Males With Prostate Cancer (ProGen)

NCT03328091

TERMINATED Phase 1

Ribociclib + PDR001 in Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer

NCT03294694

TERMINATED Phase 2

Neratinib +/- Fulvestrant in HER2+, ER+ Metastatic Breast Cancer

NCT03289039

TERMINATED Phase 1

A Study of Ulocuplumab And Ibrutinib in Symptomatic Patients With Mutated CXCR4 Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia

NCT03225716

COMPLETED Phase 2

Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab in Thyroid Cancer

NCT03246958

COMPLETED NA

Post-Operative Ambulatory Challenge and Exercise (PACE) Trial

NCT03234933

TERMINATED Phase 1

Cyclophosphamide and Alemtuzumab In Lymphoma

NCT03132584

TERMINATED Phase 2

A Study of Docetaxel + ARN-509 in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

NCT03093272

COMPLETED NA

Ear Acupuncture During Chemotherapy Infusion for Breast Cancer, a Feasibility Study

NCT03170648

TERMINATED Phase 1

A Study of Alectinib in RET-rearranged Non-small Cell Lung Cancer or RET-mutated Thyroid Cancer

NCT03131206

COMPLETED Phase 2

Study Evaluating the Addition of Pembrolizumab to Radium-223 in mCRPC

NCT03093428

COMPLETED Phase 1

LY3022855 With BRAF/MEK Inhibition in Patients With Melanoma

NCT03101254

COMPLETED Phase 1

Study of Palbociclib in Combination With Binimetinib for Patients With Advanced KRAS Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

NCT03170206

TERMINATED Phase 2

Abemaciclib for Patients With Retinoblastoma-Positive, Triple Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer

NCT03130439

TERMINATED Phase 2

Phase II PEMBROLIZUMAB + PALLIATIVE RADIOTHERAPY IN BC

NCT03051672

COMPLETED Phase 2

Pembrolizumab With or Without Radiation in Patients With Recurrent or Metastatic Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma

NCT03087019

COMPLETED NA

The HOPE Trial and the SMART Study

NCT03022032

TERMINATED Phase 2

A Phase 2 Study of Durvalumab in Combination With Tremelimumab in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

NCT03075527

COMPLETED NA

Qigong For PPSP In Breast Cancer Pain In Breast Cancer Survivors

NCT02848989

COMPLETED Phase 1

Trial To Test Safety And Efficacy Of Vaccination For Incurable HPV 16-Related Oropharyngeal, Cervical And Anal Cancer

NCT02865135

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Randomized Phase II Study Of Eribulin Mesylate With or Without Pembrolizumab For Metastatic Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer

NCT03051659

COMPLETED NA

Reduction of Post Mastectomy Pain With the Jacki® Recovery Jacket

NCT02976103

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Study Of Pembrolizumab In Combination With Trastuzumab-DM1

NCT03032107

COMPLETED NA

Improving Communication Between Cancer Patients & Oncologists

NCT02969031

COMPLETED Phase 2

CISPLATIN + AZD-1775 In Breast Cancer

NCT03012477

COMPLETED Phase 2

Pembrolizumab in Refractory Advanced Esophageal Cancer

NCT02971956

TERMINATED Phase 1

Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) for Pulmonary Metastases in Ewing Sarcoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma, and Wilms Tumors

NCT02581384

COMPLETED Phase 2

Obinutuzumab in cGVHD After Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation

NCT02867384

COMPLETED NA

Supine MRI in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Upfront Surgery or Receiving Neoadjuvant Therapy

NCT02956473

TERMINATED Phase 2

Merestinib In Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer And Solid Tumors

NCT02920996

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Phase II Trial If Nivolumab, Lenalidomide and Dexamethasone in High Risk Smoldering Myeloma

NCT02903381

COMPLETED Phase 2

Neoadjuvant And Adjuvant Abiraterone Acetate + Apalutamide Prostate Cancer Undergoing Prostatectomy

NCT02903368

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study of LY2606368 (Prexasertib) in Patients With Solid Tumors With Replicative Stress or Homologous Repair Deficiency

NCT02873975

COMPLETED Phase 2

Pembrolizumab in Metastatic Anal Cancer

NCT02919969

COMPLETED Phase 2

Trial of Combination of Ixazomib and Lenalidomide and Dexamethasone in Smoldering Multiple Myeloma

NCT02916771

COMPLETED Phase 1

Trial of CUDC-907 in Children and Young Adults With Relapsed or Refractory Solid Tumors, CNS Tumors, or Lymphoma

NCT02909777

COMPLETED NA

A Study Evaluating a Proprietary Amino Acid Mixture (Enterade®) in Patients Receiving High-Dose Melphalan Conditioning Followed by Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for Multiple Myeloma and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

NCT02919670

COMPLETED Phase 2

Pembrolizumab Combined With PLD For Recurrent Platinum Resistant Ovarian, Fallopian Tube Or Peritoneal Cancer

NCT02865811

COMPLETED Phase 1

Palbociclib With Everolimus + Exemestane In BC

NCT02871791

COMPLETED Phase 2

Study of Atezolizumab + Bevacizumab in Patients With Advanced Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

NCT02724878

TERMINATED Phase 1

A Phase 1b Study of Paclitaxel And Ricolinostat For The Treatment Of Gynecological Cancer

NCT02661815

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Phase II Study of Ramucirumab With Somatostatin Analog Therapy in Patients With Advanced, Progressive Carcinoid Tumors

NCT02795858

TERMINATED Phase 2

Rapid Plasma Genotyping For Early Initiation Of Erlotinib In EGFR Mutant Lung Cancer

NCT02770014

COMPLETED Phase 2

Study of ABT-199 (GDC-199) In Patients With Relapsed Or Refractory Waldenström Macroglobulinemia

NCT02677324

COMPLETED Phase 2

Avoiding Growth Factor During Paclitaxel Treatment in Breast Cancer

NCT02698891

COMPLETED Phase 2

Study Of Weight-Based Versus Standard Dose Enoxaparin Thromboprophylaxis In High-Risk Hospitalized Cancer Patients

NCT02706249

COMPLETED Phase 1

An Open-Label, Phase Ib/II Clinical Trial Of Cdk 4/6 Inhibitor, Ribociclib (Lee011), In Combination With Trastuzumab Or T-Dm1 For Advanced/Metastatic Her2-Positive Breast Cancer.

NCT02657343

COMPLETED Phase 2

Gut Decontamination In Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic

NCT02641236

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator for Symptom Management in Prostate Cancer

NCT02499497

COMPLETED NA

Novel Social Media Intervention For Older Br CA Patients

NCT02639208

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Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 181
Phase 2 311
Phase 3 14
Phase 4 1

What is open in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute pipeline

112 recruiting of 781 indexed (14% open); 449 completed (57%).

Phase mix: 15 late (III/IV) vs 492 early (I/II) (early-phase heavy).

Top condition: Breast Cancer (53 trials), 9 others listed.

How open-pipeline share is computed

Recruiting share is recruiting_count divided by trial_count for this sponsor in the public registry export. Status can change between pulls; treat the figure as a research-attention snapshot, not product availability.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: open-pipeline peers nationwide

Peers matched on 781 registered trials and 14% open enrollment, not the therapeutic-area sidebar.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sits at or above the median trial volume and below the median recruiting share among these 9 nationwide peers -- the two do not always move together. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (2026-08-08 snapshot). 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Total trials (X) and Recruiting share (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Higher volume & more openFocused & more openHigher volume, mostly closedSmaller & mostly closed 02004006008001,000 14%16%18%20%22% Total trials Recruiting share Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of ChicagoMedical University of South CarolinaUniversity of UtahThe Cleveland ClinicAcademic and Community Cancer Research UnitedAdaptive BiotechnologiesAgelessRx
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sits at or above the median trial volume and below the median recruiting share among these 9 nationwide peers -- the two do not always move together. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (2026-08-08 snapshot).

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sits at or above the median trial volume and below the median recruiting share among these 9 nationwide peers -- the two do not always move together.

Sponsors near 781 trials (± recruiting share)

Sponsors near 14% open enrollment (± trial volume)

What to do with this Dana-Farber Cancer Institute page

781 registered trials is a research-attention snapshot, not an endorsement of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute or any single study.

  • 112 of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's trials are currently recruiting, check each one's own eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • Breast Cancer is the condition Dana-Farber Cancer Institute studies most, compare against other sponsors active in the same condition before evaluating a specific study. See Breast Cancer 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. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute pipeline card: 781 registered trials from official public datasets. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.