Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Open enrollment with an early-phase pipeline tilt

According to ClinicalTrials.gov-derived indexes, Novartis Pharmaceuticals sits in the top decile of US sponsors by registered trial count (#16 of 15,742 sponsors by registered trial count).

1,375 total trials 110 currently recruiting 944 completed early-phase tilt top decile by trial count

Novartis Pharmaceuticals: 1,375 sponsored US clinical trials, 110 recruiting.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals sponsors 1,375 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 110 of them currently recruiting, and 944 completed. 470 of these trials are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 776 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most-studied condition in this pipeline is Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, with 10 trials.

Top-decile sponsor footprint

Novartis Pharmaceuticals ranks in the top decile of sponsors by registered trial count (#16 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 40/100

944 of 1,179 decided trials (Completed vs. Terminated on ClinicalTrials.gov) reached their planned completion (80.1%), 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 Phase 2

EPO906 Therapy in Patients With Advanced Colorectal Cancer

NCT00035087

COMPLETED Phase 3

Safety and Efficacy Trial With Zoledronic Acid for the Treatment of Paget's Disease of Bone, Including an Extended Observation Period

NCT00103740

COMPLETED Phase 4

Open-label Trial on the Effect of I.V. Zoledronic Acid 4 mg on Bone Density in Hormone Sensitive Prostate Cancer Patients With Bone Metastasis

NCT00035997

COMPLETED Phase 2

EPO906 Therapy in Patients With Advanced Kidney Cancer

NCT00035243

COMPLETED Phase 2

EPO906 Therapy in Patients With Advanced Melanoma

NCT00035165

COMPLETED Phase 3

Evaluating the Ability of Zoledronic Acid to Reduce the Rate of Subsequent Osteoporotic Fractures After a Hip Fracture

NCT00046254

COMPLETED Phase 1

PKC412 in Participants With Acute Myeloid Leukemia or With Myelodysplastic Syndrome (CPKC412A2104 Core); and PKC412 in Participants With Acute Myeloid Leukemia or With Myelodysplastic Syndrome With Either Wild Type or Mutated FMS-like Tyrosine Kinase 3 (FLT3) (CPKC412A2104E1 and CPKC412A2104E2)

NCT00045942

COMPLETED Phase 3

HORIZON-PFT: Pivotal Fracture Trial

NCT00049829

COMPLETED Phase 2

EPO906 Therapy in Patients With Prostate Cancer

NCT00035113

COMPLETED Phase 2

A 12-week, Multicenter, Safety and Dose-ranging Study of 3 Oral Doses of TCH346 in Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

NCT00036413

COMPLETED Phase 4

Efficacy and Safety of Enteric-coated Mycophenolate Sodium (EC-MPS) in Comparison to Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) in de Nove Heart Patients

NCT00574743

COMPLETED Phase 2

EPO906 Therapy in Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

NCT00035126

COMPLETED Phase 3

Long-term Study of Nateglinide+Valsartan to Prevent or Delay Type II Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Complications

NCT00097786

COMPLETED Phase 2

EPO906 Therapy in Patients With Advanced Ovarian, Primary Fallopian, or Primary Peritoneal Cancer

NCT00035100

COMPLETED Phase 3

Efficacy and Safety of Rivastigmine Capsules in Patients With Probable Vascular Dementia

NCT00099216

COMPLETED Phase 3

Safety and Efficacy Trial With Zoledronic Acid for the Treatment of Paget's Disease of Bone, Including an Extended Observation Period

NCT00051636

COMPLETED Phase 2

Radiolabeled SMT-487 (Yttrium Y 90-DOTA-tyr3-octreotide) in Treating Patients With Refractory Small Cell Lung Cancer or Metastatic Breast Cancer

NCT00006370

COMPLETED Phase 3

Safety & Efficacy of Certican in Pediatric de Novo Renal Transplant Patients

NCT00098241

COMPLETED Phase 2

A Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Imatinib Mesylate in Patients With Unresectable or Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Expressing C-kit Gene

NCT00237185

COMPLETED Phase 3

Safety and Efficacy of Imatinib Versus Interferon-α Plus Cytarabine in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Philadelphia Chromosome Positive Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

NCT00333840

COMPLETED Phase 2

An Extension Study to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of STI571 in Participants With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Who Are Refractory to or Intolerant of Interferon-Alpha

NCT00171223

TERMINATED Phase 3

Zoledronate Plus Standard Therapy Compared With Placebo Plus Standard Therapy to Prevent Bone Metastases in Patients With Recurrent Prostate Cancer That Has No Symptoms

NCT00005073

COMPLETED Phase 2

An Extension Study to Determine the Safety and Anti-Leukemic Effects of Imatinib Mesylate in Adult Participants With Ph+ Leukemia

NCT00171249

COMPLETED Phase 2

An Extension Study of the Safety and Anti-leukemic Effects of Imatinib Mesylate in Participants With Philadelphia Chromosome-positive Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in Blast Crisis

NCT00171158

COMPLETED Phase 1

Yttrium Y 90 SMT 487 in Treating Patients With Refractory or Recurrent Cancer

NCT00006368

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What is open in the Novartis Pharmaceuticals pipeline

110 recruiting of 1,375 indexed (8% open); 944 completed (69%).

Phase mix: 470 late (III/IV) vs 776 early (I/II) (early-phase heavy).

Top condition: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (10 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.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals: open-pipeline peers nationwide

Peers matched on 1,375 registered trials and 8% open enrollment, not the therapeutic-area sidebar.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals 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 0%5%10%15% Total trials Recruiting share Novartis PharmaceuticalsGlaxoSmithKlineEli Lilly and CompanyUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of MichiganArcutis BiotherapeuticsMedtronic EndovascularPenumbraSK Life Science
Novartis Pharmaceuticals 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).

Novartis Pharmaceuticals 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 1,375 trials (± recruiting share)

Sponsors near 8% open enrollment (± trial volume)

What to do with this Novartis Pharmaceuticals page

1,375 registered trials is a research-attention snapshot, not an endorsement of Novartis Pharmaceuticals or any single study.

  • 110 of Novartis Pharmaceuticals's trials are currently recruiting, check each one's own eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer is the condition Novartis Pharmaceuticals studies most, compare against other sponsors active in the same condition before evaluating a specific study. See Non-Small Cell Lung 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. Novartis Pharmaceuticals pipeline card: 1,375 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.