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

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COMPLETED NA

Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medicare Annual Wellness Visit Uptake

NCT06996366

COMPLETED NA

Genius PillBox Study

NCT06901258

COMPLETED NA

A Megastudy of Single-Session Interventions for Depression

NCT06856668

COMPLETED NA

GYNecologic Cancer-Related COGnitive Impairment

NCT06662435

COMPLETED

Lymphedema Sensor Technology Development Study

NCT06778837

COMPLETED NA

TEPS for At-Risk Youth

NCT07660133

COMPLETED NA

The Resilience Challenge: Fostering Emotional Resilience During a Time of National Stress

NCT06597032

NOT YET RECRUITING NA

NOrthwestern Tempus AI-enaBLed Electrocardiography (NOTABLE) Trial

NCT06511505

COMPLETED NA

Anxiety Lowering and Deprescribing Through Emotion Regulation

NCT06359314

COMPLETED NA

Active Elements of Digital Single-session Interventions

NCT06322849

COMPLETED NA

FoodSteps for Binge Eating & Food Insecurity

NCT06348251

COMPLETED NA

What SSI Duration is Most Effective? An Online Experiment With American Adults

NCT06313736

COMPLETED NA

Meditation, Education, Navigation, & Training Using eHealth: Cancer Adaptation Through Learning Mindful Awareness

NCT05912166

COMPLETED NA

Phenotyping Adherence Through Technology-Enabled Reports and Navigation

NCT05766423

COMPLETED

Sleep Length and Euploid Embryo Transfer Prospective Study

NCT06139757

COMPLETED NA

Randomized Controlled Trial of Project Body Neutrality

NCT06172452

COMPLETED NA

An Electronic Health Record-based Approach to Increase PrEP Knowledge and Uptake: the EMC2 PrEP Strategy

NCT05709860

COMPLETED NA

Surgeon Perception of Gastric Decompression at Time of Gynecologic Laparoscopy

NCT06137976

COMPLETED NA

Breast Cancer Pre-habilitation and Prospective Surveillance to Prevent, Detect, and Optimize Physical and Function

NCT06081127

COMPLETED NA

Digital Mental Health Service for Non-Treatment Seeking Young Adults

NCT04948268

COMPLETED

Individually-guided Hearing Aid Fitting

NCT03345654

COMPLETED NA

Negotiation Training for Caregiver Communication in AD

NCT04837937

COMPLETED NA

Walking Balance Training Post-Stroke

NCT06090604

COMPLETED

Increasing PrEP Awareness and Demand Among Black Cisgender Women

NCT05896423

COMPLETED NA

Early Intervention to Promote Cardiovascular Health of Mothers and Children

NCT05856162

COMPLETED

Developing and Testing a Social Network Data Capture Tool to Improve Partner Services: a Preliminary Pilot Implementation

NCT06659003

COMPLETED NA

MRI-Guided High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Depression

NCT05090397

COMPLETED NA

Cryoanalgesia Study

NCT05859061

COMPLETED NA

Anti-Snoring Appliances and Airway Manipulation in Patients Undergoing Anesthetic Sedation

NCT05748626

COMPLETED NA

Pilot Study of Mothers and Babies Online in Home Visiting

NCT05714956

COMPLETED NA

Rest to Overcome Loss and Reduce Risk

NCT05803499

COMPLETED NA

Narcolepsy Nightmare Study

NCT05709873

COMPLETED Early Phase 1

Characterization of the Microbiome in Colonized Dystrophic and Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa Wounds Before and After Use of APR-TD011 ® Spray Solution

NCT05533866

TERMINATED Early Phase 1

Expressive Writing in GVHD

NCT05694832

TERMINATED NA

Open-source Hearing Aid Platform Comparisons

NCT05693610

COMPLETED Phase 4

Prevena Spine for Use in Spine Surgery

NCT05555355

COMPLETED NA

Evaluation of Novel Disposable Flexible Ureteroscope for the Treatment of Renal Calculi

NCT05646069

COMPLETED NA

Transgender Men's Perspectives on HIV Risk and HIV Prevention Interventions

NCT05666102

COMPLETED NA

Direct-to-Consumer Hearing Aids and Listening Effort

NCT05855005

COMPLETED

A Novel Measurement Concept to Objectively Quantify Severity of Vocal and Speech Related Symptoms Associated With Parkinson's Disease

NCT05421832

COMPLETED NA

WildCam: A Privacy Conscious Wearable Eating Detection Camera People Will Actually Wear in the Wild

NCT05547425

COMPLETED Phase 2

Neural Correlates of Acute Pain Dynamics

NCT05669924

COMPLETED Phase 4

Continuation of Subcutaneous and Intramuscular Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate in Post-abortion Patients

NCT05505435

TERMINATED NA

Mobile Health Platform for Surveillance of Kidney Stone

NCT05389982

COMPLETED

Equitable Implementation of Cascade Screening for Familial Hypercholesterolemia

NCT05430191

COMPLETED NA

APOL1 Genetic Testing Program for Living Donors, Part 2

NCT04999436

COMPLETED Early Phase 1

Carboprost (Hemabate) for Fibroid Resection

NCT05518812

COMPLETED

Cholesterol and CYP3A4/5 Metabolism Across Pregnancy and Postpartum

NCT05504889

COMPLETED NA

Evaluating Technology Enabled Services in Perinatal Depression

NCT05525689

COMPLETED Phase 4

Investigation of the Tolerability of Two Facial Cleansing Routines for Mild to Moderate Acne

NCT05446402

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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.