Northwestern University

Open enrollment with an early-phase pipeline tilt

According to ClinicalTrials.gov-derived indexes, Northwestern University sits in the top decile of US sponsors by registered trial count (#23 of 15,742 sponsors by registered trial count).

1,209 total trials 187 currently recruiting 767 completed early-phase tilt top decile by trial count

Northwestern University: 1,209 sponsored US clinical trials, 187 recruiting.

Northwestern University sponsors 1,209 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 187 of them currently recruiting, and 767 completed. 114 of these trials are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 295 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most-studied condition in this pipeline is Depression, with 11 trials.

Top-decile sponsor footprint

Northwestern University ranks in the top decile of sponsors by registered trial count (#23 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 50/100

767 of 912 decided trials (Completed vs. Terminated on ClinicalTrials.gov) reached their planned completion (84.1%), 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

1,209 total, page 2 of 25

RECRUITING Phase 2

XL092 for the Treatment of Locally Advanced or Metastatic Radioiodine Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

NCT06959641

RECRUITING NA

Effect of ANNE One-Wellue Device Array Use on Staff Bedside Vital Sign Measurement Activity

NCT06995742

RECRUITING NA

J-Tip Use for Paracentesis in Adults With Liver Cirrhosis and Ascites

NCT06996379

RECRUITING

Olfactory Cleft Obstruction and Electrophysiological Field Potentials Predict Olfactory Restoration by Dupilumab in CRSwNP Patients.

NCT06892704

RECRUITING NA

Conical Forearm and Cylindrical Upper Arm Non-Invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP) Measurements in Pregnant Patients

NCT06466161

RECRUITING NA

Mosaic Trial for Stem Cell Transplant Recipients

NCT06960993

RECRUITING NA

Evaluating Pumpkin Seed Oil Extract Supplementation on Bladder Function

NCT06944392

RECRUITING NA

Micromanaging Human Sleep Physiology to Treat Sleep Apnea and Other Disorders

NCT06926036

RECRUITING Phase 3

A Digital Therapeutic Platform for Swallowing and Drooling Problems in Parkinson's

NCT04664634

RECRUITING NA

Sun Exposure and Activities After Skin Cancer: Optimization of mHealth Interventions

NCT07556380

RECRUITING NA

Fostering Optimal Regulation of Emotion for Prevention of Secondary Trauma (FOREST)

NCT05942469

RECRUITING NA

Electrophysiological Representations of Odor Identity Study 2

NCT07386236

RECRUITING Early Phase 1

An Investigational Scan (rhPSMA-7.3 PET/CT) for Detecting Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer, ENLIGHTEN Trial

NCT06813898

RECRUITING Phase 2

Response to Exercise and Nitric Oxide in PAD

NCT06657976

RECRUITING NA

Community Intervention to Reduce CardiovascuLar Disease in Chicago

NCT04755153

RECRUITING Phase 2

Pemetrexed Response in Relation to Tumor Alterations of Gene Status for the Treatment of Patients With Metastatic Urothelial Bladder Cancer and Other Solid Tumors

NCT06630416

RECRUITING NA

The SEQUENCE Trial: Evaluating Diagnostic Yield of Robotic-assisted Bronchoscopy When Staging EBUS is Performed First or Second in the Same Procedure

NCT06676956

RECRUITING

Myocardial Mechanisms in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

NCT06517186

RECRUITING NA

Mobile Health Interventions to Prevent Heart Disease After Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

NCT06523569

RECRUITING NA

The Ability of Chronic Pain Patients to Self-diagnose Their Chief Source of Low Back Pain

NCT06630676

RECRUITING NA

Shockwave in Postoperative Breast Reconstruction Fibrosis

NCT06919042

RECRUITING NA

Noradrenergic Dysregulation, Sleep and Cognition in Older Adults with Insomnia

NCT06694441

RECRUITING Phase 2

Pembrolizumab and Tazemetostat to Overcome Immune Tolerance Following ASCT or CAR T-cell Therapy in Patients With Aggressive B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

NCT06242834

RECRUITING Phase 2

Fisetin to Reduce Senescence and Mobility Impairment in PAD

NCT06399809

RECRUITING NA

Scalable TELeheaLth Cancer CARe: The STELLAR Program to Treat Cancer Risk Behaviors

NCT05687604

RECRUITING

Duration of Ureteral Rest Prior to Ureteral Reconstruction Surgery

NCT06384079

RECRUITING Phase 2

XL092 (Zanzalintinib) for the Treatment of Patients With Metastatic or Unresectable Leiomyosarcoma

NCT06571734

RECRUITING NA

Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Trainee Polyp Miss Rates

NCT06676930

RECRUITING Phase 2

Relugolix and Enzalutamide in Combination With Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Very High Risk Prostate Cancer, OPTIMAL Trial

NCT06499870

RECRUITING NA

EAT: A Reliable Eating Assessment Technology for Free-living Individuals

NCT06118528

RECRUITING NA

Evolution of the Chicago Classification: Bridging Physiology and Mechanics

NCT06883175

RECRUITING Early Phase 1

Effect of Neural Constraints on Movement in Stroke

NCT06666673

RECRUITING Phase 4

Using Dupilumab to Improve Circadian Function, Sleep and Pruritus in Children With Moderate/Severe Atopic Dermatitis

NCT05042258

RECRUITING NA

ENhancing Exercise with LIGHT to Improve Functioning in PAD

NCT06399900

RECRUITING NA

Real-component Vs All-cement Articulating Spacers for Periprosthetic Knee Infection

NCT06293352

RECRUITING NA

Segmentectomy After Induction Therapy (SAINT)

NCT06496659

RECRUITING NA

Mechanical Alignment Vs Kalipered Kinematic Alignment Total Knee Arthroplasty

NCT06617871

RECRUITING NA

OTC Hearing Aid and MCI

NCT06112860

RECRUITING NA

Reach Out 2: Emergency Department-Initiated Hypertension Mobile Health Intervention Connecting Multiple Health Systems

NCT06391073

RECRUITING NA

Breast Cancer - Navigate - Prospective Cohort

NCT06271356

RECRUITING NA

SMARTer Weight Loss Management

NCT05861973

RECRUITING NA

Effectiveness and Implementation of Text Messaging to Improve HIV Testing in Adolescents

NCT06096519

RECRUITING Phase 2

WP1066 and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma

NCT05879250

RECRUITING NA

MBC2OTP Project (Measurement-Based Care Implementation in Community Opioid Treatment Programs)

NCT06345274

RECRUITING Phase 1

Proton-Spatially Fractionated Radiotherapy and Standard Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Retroperitoneal Soft Tissue Sarcoma

NCT06327477

RECRUITING NA

Electrophysiological Representations of Odor in the Human Brain Study 1

NCT06769464

RECRUITING NA

Surgical Approach to Uterine Septum

NCT06315582

RECRUITING NA

Laser Outcomes Associated With (Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate) HoLEP Procedures

NCT06531473

RECRUITING Phase 4

Brain-Based and Clinical Phenotyping of Pain Pharmacotherapy in Knee Osteoarthritis

NCT06245109

RECRUITING Phase 2

FDG-PET-Guided Metastasis Directed Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Metastatic Hormone Sensitive Prostate Cancer, The PRTY Trial

NCT06244004

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Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 132
Phase 2 163
Phase 3 36
Phase 4 78

What is open in the Northwestern University pipeline

187 recruiting of 1,209 indexed (15% open); 767 completed (63%).

Phase mix: 114 late (III/IV) vs 295 early (I/II) (early-phase heavy).

Top condition: Depression (11 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.

Northwestern University: open-pipeline peers nationwide

Peers matched on 1,209 registered trials and 15% open enrollment, not the therapeutic-area sidebar.

Northwestern University 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 05001,0001,500 12%14%16%18%20% Total trials Recruiting share Northwestern UniversityEmory UniversityUniversity of PittsburghNYU Langone HealthUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamBrigham and Women's HospitalIncyte CorporationNationwide Children's HospitalUniversity of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Northwestern University 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).

Northwestern University 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 1,209 trials (± recruiting share)

Sponsors near 15% open enrollment (± trial volume)

What to do with this Northwestern University page

1,209 registered trials is a research-attention snapshot, not an endorsement of Northwestern University or any single study.

  • 187 of Northwestern University's trials are currently recruiting, check each one's own eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • Depression is the condition Northwestern University studies most, compare against other sponsors active in the same condition before evaluating a specific study. See Depression 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. Northwestern University pipeline card: 1,209 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.