Trials Today

Background: Sickle cell disease can often be treated with blood stem cell transplants. But for some people the disease returns. This study will give a second transplant to people whose disease has returned but still have some donor cells in their body. Objective: To cure people s sickle cell disease by giving a second treatment that makes more room in their bone marrow for donor cells. Eligibility: People ages 4 and older with sickle cell disease who had a transplant but the disease returned, and their donor relatives. Donors can be 2 years of age or older. Design: Participants will be screened with medical history, physical exam, and blood tests. Recipients will also be screened with heart and breathing tests, x-rays, a bone marrow sample, and teeth and eye exams. They must have a caregiver. Donors will have 7-8 visits. They will take a drug for 5-6 days to prepare them for the donation. For the donation, blood is taken from a vein in the arm or groin. The stem cells are collected. The rest of the blood is returned. This may be repeated. Recipients will get a long IV line in their arm or chest for about 1-2 months. They will take drugs to help their body accept the donor cells. They will get the donor cells and red blood cell transfusions through the line. They will stay in the hospital about 30 days after the transfusion of donor cells. In first 3 months after the infusion, recipients will have many visits. Then they will have visits every 6 months to 1 year for 5 years. During those visits they will repeat some of the screening tests....

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Oct 2019

open study

Background: - Salivary glands in and around the mouth and throat make saliva. Salivary gland disorders can affect a person s quality of life. Studying people who have a disease that affects their salivary gland(s) may teach researchers about the disorders and their genetics. Objectives: - To study salivary gland diseases and disorders. To collect data and samples from people with salivary gland problems and their relatives. Eligibility: - People more than 4 years old who have or are suspected to have a disease involving salivary glands. - Their relatives more than 4 years old. - Healthy volunteers 18 years or older. Design: - Participants may be screened with: - Medical history - Physical exam - Blood and urine tests - General oral and dental history and exam - Saliva collection - Eye exam and test for dry eyes - Health questionnaires (adults) - Biopsy of some minor salivary glands. A small incision will be made on the inside of the lower lip and several tiny salivary glands will be removed. - Participants will have 2-3 visits. These may include: - Repeats of some screening tests - Ultrasounds of some glands. Researchers will put some gel on the face, then press on it with a smooth wand. - Adults may have other biopsies - A small catheter inserted into the opening of the parotid gland duct on the inside of the cheek. A saline solution (in a syringe) will fill the duct. - Swishing a saltwater solution in the mouth for 10 seconds and then spitting into a cup - Scrapings collected from teeth, tongue, and cheeks

Type: Observational

Start Date: Apr 2015

open study

Background: - Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a group of bone and joint disorders that may cause back and joint pain and stiffness. In some cases, SpA can lead to abnormal bone growth affecting the joints and spine. Some patients have SpA without ever developing these growths, while others develop them after only a few years. Researchers are interested in studying people with SpA and their relatives to determine which people are more likely to develop more severe conditions. Objectives: - To identify symptoms and medical tests that can help determine whether a person with SpA is at risk for developing more severe forms of the disease. Eligibility: - Individuals of any age who have been diagnosed with SpA. - Healthy volunteer relatives (at least 6 years of age) of the individuals with SpA. Design: - Participants will be screened with medical records and family medical histories, and will be invited to the clinical center for the study. - Participants with SpA will have a physical exam and medical history, including a study of joint movement, blood and urine tests, and questionnaires about pain and quality of life. - Participants with SpA will have imaging studies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Other samples such as skin tissue and bone marrow may also be collected for study. - Healthy volunteers will provide a blood sample and cheek cell samples. - No treatment will be provided, although treatment options will be discussed....

Type: Observational

Start Date: Aug 2011

open study

We will investigate the clinical manifestations and molecular genetic defects of heritable urologic malignant disorders. Families with urologic malignancy with known or suspected genetic basis will be enrolled. Affected individuals or individuals suspected of having a germline urologic malignant disorder will undergo periodic clinical assessment and genetic analyses for the purpose of: 1) definition and characterization of phenotype, 2) determination of the natural history of the disorder, and 3) genotype/phenotype correlation. Genetic linkage studies may be performed in situations in which the genetic basis of the disorder has not been elucidated. ...

Type: Observational

Start Date: Dec 1990

open study

This is a pilot clinical study designed to evaluate the effects of a dietary supplement on selected blood-based nutritional biomarkers in healthy children aged 4 to 15 years. Approximately 24 children will be screened and enrolled to account for potential dropouts, with a target of 20 participants completing the study. Eligible participants will attend a screening and baseline visit, followed by daily intake of the study supplement for 4 weeks. After the supplementation period, participants will return to the clinic for an end-of-study visit. Blood samples will be collected at baseline and after 4 weeks to measure nutritional biomarkers, including vitamin D, vitamin B12, folate, omega-3 fatty acids, and standard blood count parameters. Additional assessments include height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and a socioeconomic questionnaire. Throughout the study, participants or their caregivers will record daily supplement intake, any medications taken, and any adverse events in a study diary. The results of this pilot study will provide preliminary data on the effects of the dietary supplement on serum biomarkers in children.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jan 2026

open study

The goal of this observational study is to 1) better understand and predict biological processes before disease begins or is identified, 2) study genomic and environmental contributors to disease, 3) identify ways to stop disease advancement before it becomes serious or complex, and 4) identify potential targets for disease therapy. Participants will be asked to: - collect biological samples, - download a mobile app, - collect speech (voice) recordings, and - complete surveys

Type: Observational

Start Date: Jan 2026

open study

A universal challenge in clinical investigation of novel therapeutics is the need for quantitative, objective biomarkers that directly address the mechanisms of disease and provide information relevant to clinically meaningful functional improvement. This has been a particular challenge in rare and slowly progressive diseases such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). The investigators hypothesize that urinary N-terminal fragment of titin (NTFT) corresponding to activity level/intensity will define a high-precision, non-invasive biomarker of systemic muscle injury to enable serial measurements of efficacy and safety in the clinical investigation of gene therapy for DMD and other myopathies. This should provide a valuable exploratory, secondary and eventually primary outcome measure of therapeutic efficacy to minimize the enrollment size in informative early phase and pivotal clinical trials.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Mar 2026

open study

The purpose of this study is to explore a new way to examine the function of the muscles using a technique called high-resolution manometry. The study will enroll 30 adults with OSA, all of whom will use the myofunctional therapy (MFT) devices for 3 months. High-resolution manometry will be used to measure the amount of pressure generated by the muscles of the throat when drinking water or breathing air, both with and without the MFT devices, and before and after the MFT intervention. If successful, this method can help us understand why sleep improves after MFT.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Feb 2026

open study

PIONEER-ALS is a Phase 1/2, multicenter, open-label, ascending dose, uncontrolled, first-in-human study that will evaluate the safety, tolerability and effects on clinical and biomarker endpoints of intracisternal administration of Vtx-002 in participants with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Two escalating dose (low dose and high dose) cohorts are planned. The duration of the study will be a maximum of 5 years and 5 weeks (265 weeks) for each participant. The screening period may last up to 5 weeks to complete screening procedures.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Dec 2025

open study

Major depressive disorder (MDD; depression) is a mood disorder that causes a continued feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It is a common and serious illness that can cause both emotional and physical symptoms such as feelings of sadness, irritability, not being able to focus on activities, tiredness, changes in eating habits, and aches and pains. This study will assess the changes in disease activity and adverse events of oral Icalcaprant in adult participants with major depressive disorder who are currently experiencing a major depressive episode (MDE). Icalcaprant is an investigational drug being developed for the treatment of depressive episodes in adult participants with major depressive disorder. Participants are placed in 1 of 3 groups, called treatment arms. There is a 1 in 3 chance that a participant will be assigned to placebo treatment. Around 195 adult participant with major depressive disorder will be enrolled in approximately 35 sites in North America. Participants will receive oral capsules of Icalcaprant or matching placebo once daily for 6 weeks, with a 30-day safety follow-up. There may be a higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood tests, checking for side effects and completing questionnaires.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Dec 2025

open study

This clinical trial studies the side effects of image-guidance and online adaptation with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for the treatment of patients with prostate adenocarcinoma that has not spread to other parts of the body (localized). Image-guided SBRT is a standard treatment for localized prostate cancer. This treatment uses imaging of the cancer within the body to define and localize the area to be treated with the radiation. Imaging can be obtained using either computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or a combination of the two. Typically, with SBRT, a radiation plan is developed based on the CT or MRI images obtained before treatment begins and adjustments are not made to the plan during treatment. However, anatomy can be different from day-to-day which may cause radiation to be delivered to the normal surrounding structures and possibly more side effects. During image-guided SBRT with online adaptation, the initial radiation plan is designed similarly; however, when the patient presents for radiation, the attending radiation oncologist, a dosimetrist, and a medical physicist "re-optimize" the radiation plan using the current anatomy of the day, meaning the changes in bladder and prostate size/shape are taken into account. The initial plan and the re-optimized plan are then compared, and the plan that has the optimal balance between delivering a tumor killing dose of radiation and minimizing radiation dose to normal surrounding structures is delivered. Image-guidance and online adaptation with SBRT may lower side effects and be a safer way to treat localized prostate adenocarcinoma.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Dec 2025

open study

Researchers are looking for new ways to treat HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1). The usual (standard) treatment for HIV-1 is antiretroviral therapy (ART), which includes taking medicines to lower the amount of HIV-1 in the body. Standard ART helps people live longer, but people must take up to 3 medicines up to twice a day. Standard ART may also cause other health problems. Researchers want to know if a study ART works as well as a standard ART to treat HIV-1. The study ART combines 2 medicines, islatravir and ulonivirine, and is taken once a week. The goals of this study are to learn: 1) If the study ART works as well as a standard ART to treat HIV-1, and 2) About the safety of the study ART and if people tolerate it compared to a standard ART.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Dec 2025

open study

This is a randomized, phase II trial comparing staged stereotactic radiosurgery (SSRS) versus fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) in patients with large brain metastases (≥2 cm and ≤5 cm). The study aims to evaluate efficacy, safety, and tumor response between these two standard-of-care radiation approaches.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Feb 2026

open study

In this study, researchers will learn for the first time about the safety of a study drug called BIIB145 and how the body responds to it. This is a "Phase 1" study. This kind of study is an early step in clinical research where the goal is to focus on the safety of the study drug. Another goal may be to learn how the study drug is processed by the body. BIIB145 was designed to help people with multiple sclerosis (MS). But, before it can be tested in people with MS, it must first be tested in healthy volunteers to learn about its safety and other effects. The main goal of this study is to learn about the safety of BIIB145 and how it is processed by the body, with or without food. The main questions researchers want to answer are: - How many participants have adverse events and serious adverse events during the study? An adverse event is a health problem that may or may not be caused by the study drug. - How does BIIB145 affect the participants' overall health? Researchers will also learn more about: - How BIIB145 is processed by the body, with or without food. This study will be done as follows: - Participants will be screened to check if they can join the study. The screening period will be up to 28 days, after which participants will check into the study research center. - There will be 3 parts to this study. - Part 1: Participants will take a single dose of BIIB145 or a placebo after not eating overnight. A placebo is something that looks like the study drug but does not contain any medicine. A placebo is also given in the same way as the study drug. Participants in Part 1 will be in the study for up to 42 days. - Part 2: This part of the study will have a "crossover" design. This means that all participants in Part 2 will all take BIIB145 twice, once with food and once without food. When taken with food, they will finish a meal about 30 minutes before their dose. Without food, they will not eat overnight before taking their dose. But, the order in which they take BIIB145 with or without food depends on the group to which they are randomly assigned. Participants in Part 2 will be in the study for up to 56 days. - Part 3: Participants will take a dose of BIIB145 or the placebo once a day for 14 days. For each dose, participants will not eat overnight before taking it. Participants in Part 3 will be in the study for up to 56 days. - For Part 1, participants will stay at the study research center for 4 days after screening. There will be 2 other visits to the center to check on participants' health on Day 7 and Day 14. - For Part 2, at 2 different times, participants will stay at the center for a period of 4 days at a time, after screening. There will be a break of about 7 days between stays. There will be 3 other visits to the center to check on their health on Day 7 (of each period) and on Day 14. - For Part 3, participants will stay at the center for 17 days after screening. There will be 2 other visits to the center to check on their health on Day 21 and Day 28.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Dec 2025

open study

Researchers are looking for new ways to treat high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (HR NMIBC). NMIBC is cancer in the tissue that lines the inside of the bladder and has not spread to the bladder muscle or outside of the bladder. In standard treatment for HR NMIBC, doctors first remove the tumor with a procedure called transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TURBT). Researchers want to learn if using MK-3120, the study medicine, can treat HR NMIBC after TURBT. The goal of this study is to learn about the safety of MK-3120 and if people tolerate it.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Dec 2025

open study

This is a study for patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) who have previously received treatment with a BTK inhibitor (covalent and non-covalent) and a BCL-2 inhibitor. The main purpose of this study is to test if NX-5948 (bexobrutideg) works to treat patients with CLL/SLL. Participation could last up to 5 years, and possibly longer, if the disease does not progress.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Oct 2025

open study

Bipolar disorder is a severe chronic mood disorder that affects up to 4% of the adult population in the United States. The purpose of this study is to assess how safe and effective ABBV-932 is in treating participants with depressive episodes associated with bipolar I or II disorder. ABBV-932 is an investigational drug being developed for the treatment of depressive episodes in adult participants with bipolar I or II disorder. Participants with bipolar I or II disorder who are currently experiencing a depressive episode will enter the study and be treated with open-label ABBV-932. Approximately 200 adult participants with bipolar I or II disorder will be enrolled in approximately 50 sites in the United States and Puerto Rico. Participants will receive oral capsules of ABBV-932 for a 26-week treatment period. The treatment period will be followed by a safety follow-up (SFU) period of 30 days. There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regularly scheduled visits during the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood tests, checking for side effects and completing questionnaires.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Sep 2025

open study

This Phase 1/2 study is an open-label, dose finding and dose expansion study investigating the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of a single IV infusion of ALXN2350 in adult participants with BAG3 associated DCM.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Oct 2025

open study

Researchers are looking for more ways to treat PAH. In PAH, the blood vessels in the lungs become thick and narrow, which makes it harder for blood to flow. This causes high blood pressure in the lungs and overworks the heart. PAH can make it hard to breathe and be active. Some standard (usual) treatments for PAH can treat symptoms of PAH but do not stop PAH from getting worse. Sotatercept is a study medicine designed to treat PAH. It is a targeted therapy, which is a treatment that works on certain proteins that play a role in causing PAH. This is a long-term follow-up (LTFU) study. People who took part in certain other studies testing sotatercept for PAH may be able to join this study. The goal of this study is to learn about the long-term safety of sotatercept and if people tolerate it when taken with standard PAH treatment over a longer period of time.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: May 2021

open study

Researchers designed a study medicine called enlicitide to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). In this study, researchers want to learn about giving enlicitide with another medicine called rosuvastatin. Rosuvastatin is a standard (usual) treatment to lower LDL-C. The goal of this study is to learn if enlicitide given with rosuvastatin works better than placebo on lowering LDL-C in a person's blood. A placebo looks like the study medicine but has no study medicine in it. Using a placebo helps researchers better understand the effects of a study medicine.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Nov 2025

open study

The sebetralstat Early Access Program (EAP) provides early access to the investigational medicinal product (IMP) sebetralstat to eligible and approved Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) pediatric (ages 2-11) post-trial and naïve patients for the on-demand treatment of angioedema attacks where the treating Physician determines they might benefit from this treatment.

Type: Expanded Access

open study

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics, and anti-tumor activity of TLN-372 as a single agent and in combination with other anti-tumor agents, in patients with advanced KRAS mutant solid tumors

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Sep 2025

open study

Cancer is a condition where cells in a specific part of body grow and reproduce uncontrollably. The purpose of this study is to assess adverse events and change in disease activity of telisotuzumab adizutecan. Telisotuzumab adizutecan is an investigational drug being developed for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors that harbor MET amplification. This study will have 1 arm where participants will receive telisotuzumab adizutecan. Approximately 125 participants 12 years of age or older. with solid tumors harboring MET amplification will be enrolled in the study in up to 55 sites around the world. Participants will receive intravenous (IV) telisotuzumab adizutecan, as part of the 61.5 month study duration. There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at an approved institution (hospital or clinic). The effect of the treatment will be frequently checked by medical assessments, blood tests, questionnaires and side effects.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Oct 2025

open study

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the under-mattress monitoring device to aid in the titration process of a mandibular advancement device (MAD) for the management of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). A secondary aim is to evaluate changes in subjective OSA symptoms and patient's satisfaction with MAD. A third aim is to analyze if there are differences between the sleep parameters recorded by the under-mattress monitor between responders and non-responders to MAD therapy.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Jan 2026

open study

This is a Phase 2b, global, multicenter, sequential, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group, dose-ranging study in participants with moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa. The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of brivekimig in a dose-ranging study of participants with moderate to severe HS. Study details include: The study duration (per participant) will be up to approximately 60 weeks for participants not transitioning into the long-term extension (LTE) study and will be up to approximately 52 weeks for participants transitioning into the LTE study. The randomized treatment duration will be up to approximately 48 weeks.

Type: Interventional

Start Date: Nov 2025

open study