Eli Lilly and Company

Open enrollment with an early-phase pipeline tilt

According to ClinicalTrials.gov-derived indexes, Eli Lilly and Company sits in the top decile of US sponsors by registered trial count (#18 of 15,742 sponsors by registered trial count).

1,341 total trials 124 currently recruiting 1029 completed early-phase tilt top decile by trial count

Eli Lilly and Company: 1,341 sponsored US clinical trials, 124 recruiting.

Eli Lilly and Company sponsors 1,341 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 124 of them currently recruiting, and 1,029 completed. 459 of these trials are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 861 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most-studied condition in this pipeline is Healthy, with 55 trials.

Top-decile sponsor footprint

Eli Lilly and Company ranks in the top decile of sponsors by registered trial count (#18 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

C 67/100

1,029 of 1,131 decided trials (Completed vs. Terminated on ClinicalTrials.gov) reached their planned completion (91.0%), 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 Phase 2

A Study in Participants With Rheumatoid Arthritis on Background Methotrexate Therapy

NCT01185353

COMPLETED Phase 4

A Study of Duloxetine in Elderly Generalized Anxiety Disorder

NCT01118780

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study of LY900010 in Erectile Dysfunction

NCT01160289

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Study of Olaratumab in Soft Tissue Sarcoma

NCT01185964

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Study to Measure if There is Any Difference in How the Body Breaks Down or Inactivates Either Fluoxetine or LY2216684 When Both of These Medicines Are Given Together.

NCT01243957

COMPLETED Phase 3

A Study in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

NCT01152190

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study of Pemetrexed and Carboplatin/Cisplatin or Gemcitabine and Carboplatin/Cisplatin With or Without IMC-1121B in Participants Previously Untreated With Recurrent or Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

NCT01160744

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Study in Advanced Cancer

NCT01226485

COMPLETED Phase 3

A Study of Tadalafil Use With Finasteride in Men With Enlarged Prostates and Urinary Symptoms

NCT01139762

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Biomarker Study of Solanezumab in Patients With and Without Alzheimer's

NCT01148498

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study for Participants With Recurrent or Metastatic Squamous Cell Head and Neck Cancer

NCT01087970

COMPLETED Phase 4

A Study in Erectile Dysfunction

NCT01130532

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study of LY2541546 in Women With Low Bone Mineral Density

NCT01144377

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study of Ramucirumab or Icrucumab in Colorectal Cancer

NCT01111604

COMPLETED Phase 2

Prasugrel Versus Placebo in Adult Sickle Cell Disease

NCT01167023

COMPLETED Phase 2

Safety Study of Cetuximab in Combination With Cisplatin and Vinorelbine to Treat Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

NCT01109524

COMPLETED Phase 1

Notch Inhibitor in Advanced Cancer

NCT01158404

TERMINATED Phase 2

A Study in Participants With Diabetic Kidney Disease

NCT01113801

COMPLETED Phase 1

An Open-Label, Dose-Escalation Study of IMC-20D7S In Participants With Malignant Melanoma

NCT01137006

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study of the Effect of LY2189265 on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate in Type 2 Diabetes

NCT01149421

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Safety Study of LY2886721 Single Doses in Healthy Subjects

NCT01133405

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study in Advanced Solid Tumors

NCT01063075

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study in Head and Neck Cancer

NCT01081041

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Study of LY2624587 in Patients With Advanced Cancer

NCT01139788

TERMINATED Phase 2

A Long-Term, Open-Label, Study on Schizophrenia

NCT01129674

COMPLETED Phase 2

Study of LY2181308 in Combination With Docetaxel Versus Docetaxel in Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

NCT01107444

COMPLETED Phase 3

A Study in Participants With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (AWARD-3)

NCT01126580

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Study of IMC-RON8 in Advanced Solid Tumors

NCT01119456

COMPLETED

A Study to Determine if There is a Possible Association Between NAION and Phosphodiesterase Type 5 (PDE5) Inhibitors

NCT01131104

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Study of LY2875358 in Participants With Advanced Cancer

NCT01287546

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study in Participants With Moderate to Severe Psoriasis

NCT01107457

COMPLETED Phase 3

Insulin Lispro 6 Days Versus Insulin Aspart 6 Days in Pump Use

NCT01109316

COMPLETED Phase 2

Study in Advanced Solid Tumors

NCT01099358

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study of LY2484595 in Patients With High LDL-C or Low HDL-C

NCT01105975

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Study in Myeloproliferative Disorders

NCT01134120

TERMINATED Phase 2

A Study in Men With Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

NCT01097707

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study in Schizophrenia Patients

NCT01086748

COMPLETED

Treatment With Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP) Receptor Inhibitors: Longitudinal Assessment of Treatment Patterns and Events After Acute Coronary Syndrome

NCT01088503

COMPLETED Phase 1

Comparison of Prasugrel and Clopidogrel in Low Body Weight Versus Higher Body Weight With Coronary Artery Disease

NCT01107925

COMPLETED Phase 1

Comparison of Prasugrel and Clopidogrel in Very Elderly and Non-Elderly Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease

NCT01107912

COMPLETED Phase 4

A Study in Depression and Associated Painful Physical Symptoms

NCT01070329

TERMINATED Phase 1

A Study of LY2584702 With Erlotinib or Everolimus in Participants With Solid Tumors

NCT01115803

COMPLETED Phase 3

A Study in Participants With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

NCT01064687

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Phase 1 Study in Participants With Advanced Cancer

NCT01115790

COMPLETED Phase 3

First-line Treatment of Participants With Stage IV Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer With Necitumumab and Gemcitabine-Cisplatin

NCT00981058

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Phase 1 Study of LY2787106 in Cancer and Anemia

NCT01340976

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

NCT01027871

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study of Paclitaxel/Carboplatin With or Without Olaratumab (IMC-3G3) in Previously Untreated Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

NCT00918203

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study for Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

NCT01049412

COMPLETED Phase 1

A Phase 1 Study of LY2835219 In Participants With Advanced Cancer

NCT01394016

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Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 517
Phase 2 344
Phase 3 368
Phase 4 91

What is open in the Eli Lilly and Company pipeline

124 recruiting of 1,341 indexed (9% open); 1,029 completed (77%).

Phase mix: 459 late (III/IV) vs 861 early (I/II) (early-phase heavy).

Top condition: Healthy (55 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.

Eli Lilly and Company: open-pipeline peers nationwide

Peers matched on 1,341 registered trials and 9% open enrollment, not the therapeutic-area sidebar.

Eli Lilly and Company 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 05001,0001,500 0%5%10%15% Total trials Recruiting share Eli Lilly and CompanyGlaxoSmithKlineUniversity of MichiganNovartis PharmaceuticalsAstraZenecaShionogiUniversity of KentuckyUniversity of VermontLahey Clinic
Eli Lilly and Company 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).

Eli Lilly and Company 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 1,341 trials (± recruiting share)

Sponsors near 9% open enrollment (± trial volume)

What to do with this Eli Lilly and Company page

1,341 registered trials is a research-attention snapshot, not an endorsement of Eli Lilly and Company or any single study.

  • 124 of Eli Lilly and Company's trials are currently recruiting, check each one's own eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • Healthy is the condition Eli Lilly and Company studies most, compare against other sponsors active in the same condition before evaluating a specific study. See Healthy 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. Eli Lilly and Company pipeline card: 1,341 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.