Washington University School of Medicine

Open enrollment with an early-phase pipeline tilt

According to ClinicalTrials.gov-derived indexes, Washington University School of Medicine sits in the top decile of US sponsors by registered trial count (#12 of 15,742 sponsors by registered trial count).

1,502 total trials 214 currently recruiting 919 completed early-phase tilt top decile by trial count

Washington University School of Medicine: 1,502 sponsored US clinical trials, 214 recruiting.

Washington University School of Medicine sponsors 1,502 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 214 of them currently recruiting, and 919 completed. 98 of these trials are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 569 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most-studied condition in this pipeline is Obesity, with 20 trials.

Top-decile sponsor footprint

Washington University School of Medicine ranks in the top decile of sponsors by registered trial count (#12 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 38/100

919 of 1,159 decided trials (Completed vs. Terminated on ClinicalTrials.gov) reached their planned completion (79.3%), 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

1,502 total, page 12 of 31

COMPLETED NA

Caregiver Speaks: A Technologically Mediated Storytelling Intervention

NCT04103580

COMPLETED NA

Telemedicine Control Tower for the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

NCT04020887

COMPLETED Early Phase 1

Hydromorphone vs Fentanyl in Children Undergoing Tonsillectomy Surgery

NCT04230681

COMPLETED Phase 4

Intraarticular Antibiotic in TKA

NCT04297631

TERMINATED Phase 2

Pre-operative Adaptive Short Court Radiation Therapy in Gastric Cancer

NCT04162665

TERMINATED Phase 1

Glucagon Response to Prandial Insulin Administration in Persons With Type 1 Diabetes

NCT04079881

TERMINATED Phase 1

Neoantigen Peptide Vaccine Strategy in Pancreatic Cancer Patients Following Surgical Resection and Adjuvant Chemotherapy

NCT03956056

TERMINATED Phase 1

Imaging CCR2 Receptors With 64Cu-DOTA-ECL1i in Head and Neck Cancer

NCT04217057

TERMINATED NA

Formal Pre-Operative Education

NCT04401891

COMPLETED NA

Auditory Nerve Test System During Vestibular Schwannoma Resection

NCT04241679

TERMINATED

Cognitive Changes With Gabapentin Treatment

NCT04106011

TERMINATED

Diabetes/ Endocrine Surveillance in SDS

NCT04275479

COMPLETED NA

EBUS-Miniforceps Biopsy Specimen Acquisition for PD-L1 Testing in Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer

NCT04159025

COMPLETED NA

Increasing Optimal Use of HPV Vaccination in Primary Care

NCT04180462

COMPLETED NA

LRTI vs Internal Brace for CMC OA

NCT03971188

COMPLETED Phase 2

Belatacept Pilot Study in Lung Transplantation Immunosuppression in Lung Transplantation

NCT03388008

COMPLETED NA

Combined Eating Disorder and Weight Loss Online Guided-Self Help Intervention

NCT04248686

TERMINATED

Lenalidomide Adherence in Older Adults

NCT03779555

TERMINATED Phase 1

Mapping Draining Lymph Nodes in CNS Malignancies

NCT04096716

TERMINATED Phase 3

Sleep Apnea and Fetal Growth Restriction

NCT04084990

COMPLETED NA

An Interactive Video Educational Tool Improves the Quality of Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy

NCT04491565

COMPLETED NA

Pilot Study of Same-session MR-only Simulation and Treatment With Stereotactic MRI-guided Adaptive Radiotherapy (SMART) for Oligometastases of the Spine

NCT03878485

COMPLETED NA

Feasibility and Effect of a Strategy-Based Cognitive Intervention for Parkinson Disease

NCT04048122

COMPLETED NA

Palliative Lattice Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT)

NCT04133415

TERMINATED NA

Rehabilitation and Quality of Life Assessment for Soft Tissue Sarcoma Treated With Radiotherapy and Surgery

NCT03916796

COMPLETED Phase 4

Cladribine Tablets: Collaborative Study to Evaluate Impact On Central Nervous System Biomarkers in Multiple Sclerosis

NCT03963375

COMPLETED Phase 2

Timolol Gel for Epistaxis in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

NCT04139018

COMPLETED Phase 3

Multi-arm Optimization of Stroke Thrombolysis

NCT03735979

COMPLETED

Healthy Hip Study: Conservative Management for Pre-arthritic Hip Disorders

NCT04069507

TERMINATED Phase 2

Optune Device - TT Field Plus Nivolumab and Ipilimumab for Melanoma With Brain Metastasis

NCT03903640

COMPLETED NA

Harnessing Mobile Technology to Reduce Mental Health Disorders in College Populations

NCT04162847

COMPLETED

Electronic Health Record-Enabled Evidence-Based Smoking Cessation Quality Improvement Implementation Program

NCT04107857

TERMINATED NA

Dietary Protein and Monocyte/Macrophage Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) Signaling

NCT03946774

COMPLETED NA

Trial of PCIT-ED in School for Preschoolers in Poverty

NCT04399629

COMPLETED NA

Dental Appliance for Parkinson's Disease

NCT04082663

COMPLETED NA

Treatment Efforts Addressing Child Weight Management by Unifying Patients, Parents & Providers

NCT03843424

COMPLETED Phase 1

Study of Itacitinib for the Prophylaxis of Graft-Versus-Host Disease and Cytokine Release Syndrome After T-cell Replete Haploidentical Peripheral Blood Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

NCT03755414

COMPLETED NA

Daily Imaging, Target Identification, and Simulated Computed Tomography-Based Stereotactic Adaptive Radiotherapy Workflow in a Novel Ring Gantry Radiotherapy Device

NCT04008537

TERMINATED Phase 4

Cardiac and Renal Biomarkers in Arthroplasty Surgery

NCT03940651

COMPLETED NA

Improvisational Dance for Parkinson Disease

NCT04354298

COMPLETED Phase 1

Speech Recognition Training in Children With Hearing Loss

NCT04041440

COMPLETED Phase 2

Oral Low-Dose Naltrexone for Lichen Planopilaris and Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia

NCT04409041

COMPLETED Phase 2

Efficacy and Safety of a Quadruple Ultra-low-dose Treatment for Hypertension

NCT03640312

COMPLETED NA

Fiber Blends and Gut Microbiota (FB)

NCT04101344

COMPLETED

Specifying Interventions From the Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium (SCDIC)

NCT03380351

COMPLETED

Diastolic Hyperemia Free Index for Assessment of Moderate Coronary Stenoses

NCT04019535

TERMINATED Phase 4

IV Lidocaine in Pediatric AIS

NCT03893318

TERMINATED NA

A Self-Directed Mindfulness Meditation Intervention in Gynecologic Cancer Patients

NCT04072406

TERMINATED Phase 1

Neoantigen DNA Vaccine Alone vs. Neoantigen DNA Vaccine Plus Durvalumab in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients Following Standard of Care Therapy

NCT03199040

COMPLETED NA

Cognitive Flexibility Training for Persistent Pain: Neuroimaging Pilot (COFLEX-i)

NCT03720821

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Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 332
Phase 2 237
Phase 3 40
Phase 4 58

What is open in the Washington University School of Medicine pipeline

214 recruiting of 1,502 indexed (14% open); 919 completed (61%).

Phase mix: 98 late (III/IV) vs 569 early (I/II) (early-phase heavy).

Top condition: Obesity (20 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.

Washington University School of Medicine: open-pipeline peers nationwide

Peers matched on 1,502 registered trials and 14% open enrollment, not the therapeutic-area sidebar.

Washington University School of Medicine 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 05001,0001,5002,000 5%10%15%20% Total trials Recruiting share Washington University School of MedicineYale UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaNovartis PharmaceuticalsAcademic and Community Cancer Research UnitedAdaptive BiotechnologiesAgelessRxAlaska Blind Child Discovery
Washington University School of Medicine 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).

Washington University School of Medicine 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 1,502 trials (± recruiting share)

Sponsors near 14% open enrollment (± trial volume)

What to do with this Washington University School of Medicine page

1,502 registered trials is a research-attention snapshot, not an endorsement of Washington University School of Medicine or any single study.

  • 214 of Washington University School of Medicine's trials are currently recruiting, check each one's own eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • Obesity is the condition Washington University School of Medicine studies most, compare against other sponsors active in the same condition before evaluating a specific study. See Obesity 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. Washington University School of Medicine pipeline card: 1,502 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.