Nationwide Children's Hospital

Open enrollment with an early-phase pipeline tilt

According to ClinicalTrials.gov-derived indexes, Nationwide Children's Hospital sits in the top decile of US sponsors by registered trial count (#158 of 15,742 sponsors by registered trial count).

188 total trials 29 currently recruiting 122 completed early-phase tilt top decile by trial count

Nationwide Children's Hospital: 188 sponsored US clinical trials, 29 recruiting.

Nationwide Children's Hospital sponsors 188 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 29 of them currently recruiting, and 122 completed. 13 of these trials are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 50 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most-studied condition in this pipeline is High Grade Glioma, with 8 trials.

Top-decile sponsor footprint

Nationwide Children's Hospital ranks in the top decile of sponsors by registered trial count (#158 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

D 53/100

122 of 143 decided trials (Completed vs. Terminated on ClinicalTrials.gov) reached their planned completion (85.3%), 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

188 total, page 4 of 4

COMPLETED

Retrospective Femoral Nerve Block Study

NCT01293136

COMPLETED NA

Safe Play Areas for Ross County Kids Project

NCT01291225

COMPLETED NA

Impact of Using a Cuffed Endotracheal Tube on Limiting the Risk of Airway Fire

NCT01285804

COMPLETED Phase 2

Dexmedetomidine Versus Fentanyl Following Pressure Equalization Tube Placement

NCT01188551

COMPLETED

Masimo CO-Oximeter Study

NCT01184521

TERMINATED Phase 2

A Reduced Toxicity Allogeneic Unrelated Donor Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT) for Severe Sickle Cell Disease

NCT01279616

COMPLETED NA

Critical Smoke Alarm Characteristics to Awaken Children From Stage 4 Sleep

NCT01169155

COMPLETED Phase 2

Gemcitabine, Paclitaxel and Oxaliplatin (GemPOx)

NCT01270724

COMPLETED Phase 3

Three Times Weekly (TIW) Growth Hormone Therapy in Children on Hemodialysis

NCT00943995

COMPLETED

Pediatric Alliance for International Neurogastrointestinal Functional Research

NCT01099787

COMPLETED

Review of Pain Management After Congenital Cardiac Surgery

NCT01378663

TERMINATED

Gastric Accommodation and Gastroesophageal Reflux

NCT01078064

COMPLETED Phase 1

Repeated Infusions of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Children With Osteogenesis Imperfecta

NCT01061099

COMPLETED Phase 1

Reducing Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Children With Metformin

NCT01231074

COMPLETED NA

Contingency Management for Smoking Abstinence With Adolescent Smokers

NCT01056588

COMPLETED NA

A Comparison of Early Mobilization Versus Traditional Treatment for Acute Ankle Sprains.

NCT01134653

COMPLETED

Use of an Ambulatory Capsule to Characterize Gastrointestinal Pressure Patterns in Children

NCT01026922

TERMINATED

Impaired Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) Generation Causes Protein Catabolism and Poor Growth in Children With Crohn Disease

NCT00946361

TERMINATED

Impaired Family Dynamics Leads to Non Compliance in Type I Diabetes

NCT00946517

COMPLETED NA

Cardiomyopathy in DMD: Lisinopril vs. Losartan

NCT01982695

TERMINATED NA

Metabolic Syndrome in Bone Marrow Transplant Survivors

NCT00855244

COMPLETED Phase 2

Measures to Lower the Stress Response in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

NCT00848393

COMPLETED

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Findings in Children With Early Exposure to General Anesthesia

NCT01229514

TERMINATED Phase 2

Effect of Increlex® on Children With Crohn Disease

NCT00764699

COMPLETED Phase 2

Treatment Follow-up Study

NCT00995696

TERMINATED Phase 2

Use of Levemir® Improves Metabolic and Clinical Status in Cystic Fibrosis-related Diabetes (CFRD)

NCT00639626

COMPLETED

Predictors of Teen Smoking-cessation

NCT01141517

COMPLETED Phase 1

Gene Transfer Therapy for Treating Children and Adults With Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 2D (LGMD2D)

NCT00494195

TERMINATED Phase 2

Growth Hormone in Children With Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) and With Crohn's Disease

NCT00511329

COMPLETED Phase 1

Six Month Study of Gentamicin in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy With Stop Codons

NCT00451074

COMPLETED Phase 1

Safety Study of Mini-dystrophin Gene to Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

NCT00428935

COMPLETED

HTRS TE Registry (ThromboEmbolism Registry)

NCT00266994

COMPLETED Phase 2

Randomized Trial of Hydrocortisone in Very Preterm High-Risk Infants

NCT00167544

COMPLETED NA

Trial of Automated Risk Appraisal for Adolescents

NCT00505440

COMPLETED

Genetic Characterization of Individuals With Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy

NCT00457912

COMPLETED NA

Anticipatory Guidance to Prevent Childhood Obesity

NCT01565525

COMPLETED Phase 2

Effectiveness of Pulmozyme in Infants With Cystic Fibrosis

NCT00179998

COMPLETED

Short Term Outcomes of Children With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

NCT00142376

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Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 21
Phase 2 29
Phase 3 8
Phase 4 5

What is open in the Nationwide Children's Hospital pipeline

29 recruiting of 188 indexed (15% open); 122 completed (65%).

Phase mix: 13 late (III/IV) vs 50 early (I/II) (early-phase heavy).

Top condition: High Grade Glioma (8 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.

Nationwide Children's Hospital: open-pipeline peers nationwide

Peers matched on 188 registered trials and 15% open enrollment, not the therapeutic-area sidebar.

Nationwide Children's Hospital sits at or above the median trial volume and at or above 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 0100200300400 10%12%14%16% Total trials Recruiting share Nationwide Children's HospitalVanderbilt-Ingram Cancer CenterArizona State UniversityJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthVertex Pharmaceuticals IncorporatedUniversity of Michigan Rogel Cancer CenterArrowhead Regional Medical CenterAurinia PharmaceuticalsBronx VA Medical Center
Nationwide Children's Hospital sits at or above the median trial volume and at or above the median recruiting share among these 9 nationwide peers -- the two do not always move together. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (2026-08-08 snapshot).

Nationwide Children's Hospital sits at or above the median trial volume and at or above the median recruiting share among these 9 nationwide peers -- the two do not always move together.

Sponsors near 188 trials (± recruiting share)

Sponsors near 15% open enrollment (± trial volume)

What to do with this Nationwide Children's Hospital page

188 registered trials is a research-attention snapshot, not an endorsement of Nationwide Children's Hospital or any single study.

  • 29 of Nationwide Children's Hospital's trials are currently recruiting, check each one's own eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • High Grade Glioma is the condition Nationwide Children's Hospital studies most, compare against other sponsors active in the same condition before evaluating a specific study. See High Grade Glioma 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. Nationwide Children's Hospital pipeline card: 188 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.