Skip to content
Pharma Observatory a Scientist.com platform

Condition (MeSH)

Psoriasis

ClinicalTrials.gov lists 1,925 trials for Psoriasis or a narrower condition beneath it. Novartis Pharmaceuticals has the most among industry and government lead sponsors, with 69.

MeSH D011565 Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases C17
Email me this page as a PDF

Search trials, drugs, companies and investigators, and follow each one to the others. Individual plan, $249/seat/mo. Card required.

Phase 1 Phase 1 200 Phase 1/2 Phase 1/2 29 Phase 2 Phase 2 306 Phase 2/3 Phase 2/3 16 Phase 3 Phase 3 330 Phase 4 Phase 4 222 Not applicable Not applicable 281 Observational Observational 540 Phase 1 Phase 1 200 Phase 1/2 Phase 1/2 29 Phase 2 Phase 2 306 Phase 2/3 Phase 2/3 16 Phase 3 Phase 3 330 Phase 4 Phase 4 222 Not applicable Not applicable 281 Observational Observational 540

Trials per phase (log scale)

1 more section with rows

1,460 of the 1,925 trials are tagged with Psoriasis itself; the rest are tagged with a narrower condition beneath it.

Get the Psoriasis report as a PDF

The PDF carries up to 50 rows of each section, where the page shows the first few, with the sources listed. Enter a work email and confirm it from the message we send, and the report follows by email.

When did Psoriasis trials start? (33)

Shown in this order: most recent first, 1990 onwards. 2026 is partial: trials registered with a 2026 start date so far, not a full year. 1 trial is registered to start in 2027 or later, and not listed here.

Trials over time, by phase

  • Phase 1
  • Phase 1/2
  • Phase 2
  • Phase 2/3
  • Phase 3
  • Phase 4
  • Not applicable
  • Observational

Top of scale: 127

1991: 1 trials (Observational 1) 1993: 1 trials (Observational 1) 1995: 3 trials (Observational 2, Phase 2 1) 1997: 2 trials (Phase 1/2 2) 1998: 1 trials (Not applicable 1) 1999: 1 trials (Phase 2 1) 2000: 9 trials (Observational 1, Not applicable 2, Phase 3 1, Phase 2 2, Phase 1/2 3) 2001: 5 trials (Observational 1, Phase 4 1, Phase 3 1, Phase 2 2) 2002: 13 trials (Observational 6, Phase 4 1, Phase 3 3, Phase 2 1, Phase 1 2) 2003: 23 trials (Observational 3, Phase 4 2, Phase 3 7, Phase 2 11) 2004: 26 trials (Observational 7, Not applicable 1, Phase 4 7, Phase 3 7, Phase 2 4) 2005: 41 trials (Observational 8, Not applicable 2, Phase 4 5, Phase 3 9, Phase 2/3 1, Phase 2 13, Phase 1/2 1, Phase 1 2) 2006: 45 trials (Observational 11, Not applicable 1, Phase 4 8, Phase 3 9, Phase 2/3 1, Phase 2 13, Phase 1 2) 2007: 58 trials (Observational 12, Not applicable 6, Phase 4 9, Phase 3 6, Phase 2 16, Phase 1/2 4, Phase 1 5) 2008: 57 trials (Observational 15, Not applicable 5, Phase 4 9, Phase 3 8, Phase 2/3 1, Phase 2 14, Phase 1/2 1, Phase 1 4) 2009: 50 trials (Observational 12, Not applicable 2, Phase 4 10, Phase 3 5, Phase 2 14, Phase 1/2 3, Phase 1 4) 2010: 75 trials (Observational 16, Not applicable 10, Phase 4 12, Phase 3 17, Phase 2 16, Phase 1 4) 2011: 63 trials (Observational 16, Not applicable 5, Phase 4 3, Phase 3 15, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 13, Phase 1 9) 2012: 61 trials (Observational 14, Not applicable 5, Phase 4 5, Phase 3 21, Phase 2 7, Phase 1/2 2, Phase 1 7) 2013: 87 trials (Observational 20, Not applicable 12, Phase 4 5, Phase 3 24, Phase 2 14, Phase 1 12) 2014: 77 trials (Observational 11, Not applicable 16, Phase 4 7, Phase 3 19, Phase 2 12, Phase 1/2 1, Phase 1 11) 2015: 86 trials (Observational 31, Not applicable 8, Phase 4 2, Phase 3 19, Phase 2 16, Phase 1/2 3, Phase 1 7) 2016: 93 trials (Observational 15, Not applicable 11, Phase 4 12, Phase 3 18, Phase 2 22, Phase 1 15) 2017: 97 trials (Observational 27, Not applicable 16, Phase 4 12, Phase 3 16, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 12, Phase 1/2 4, Phase 1 8) 2018: 96 trials (Observational 19, Not applicable 12, Phase 4 14, Phase 3 20, Phase 2/3 1, Phase 2 10, Phase 1 20) 2019: 126 trials (Observational 34, Not applicable 16, Phase 4 15, Phase 3 25, Phase 2/3 1, Phase 2 18, Phase 1/2 1, Phase 1 16) 2020: 94 trials (Observational 38, Not applicable 18, Phase 4 16, Phase 3 6, Phase 2 10, Phase 1 6) 2021: 127 trials (Observational 52, Not applicable 16, Phase 4 16, Phase 3 15, Phase 2 14, Phase 1/2 2, Phase 1 12) 2022: 106 trials (Observational 33, Not applicable 22, Phase 4 15, Phase 3 8, Phase 2/3 1, Phase 2 10, Phase 1 17) 2023: 99 trials (Observational 44, Not applicable 19, Phase 4 10, Phase 3 9, Phase 2/3 1, Phase 2 11, Phase 1/2 1, Phase 1 4) 2024: 81 trials (Observational 23, Not applicable 23, Phase 4 3, Phase 3 15, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 3, Phase 1 12) 2025: 111 trials (Observational 37, Not applicable 27, Phase 4 5, Phase 3 14, Phase 2/3 3, Phase 2 11, Phase 1 14)

Trials registered with a start date in each year, 1990 onward, stacked by phase (complete years only; the current partial year is in the table's notes). The table below lists the same counts, most recent years first.

Trials started per year
Year Trials started
2026 (partial year) 94
2025 111
2024 81
2023 99
2022 106
2021 127
2020 94
2019 126
2018 96
2017 97

Forecast of the full-year count, planned starts included, not rows of this table: about 100 trials starting in 2026 and about 100 in 2027, the average of the 24 months through September, counted as registered and carried forward. The rows of this table count trials registered so far with a start date in the year, planned starts included; the forecast looks ahead to the count for the whole year, so it is not the same measure. In backtests on conditions of this size, forecasts made part-way through the year were typically off by about 13 percent and ran about 12 percent low against the count later registered; forecasts made before the year began were off by about 19 percent and ran about 17 percent low against the count later registered, and had about the same error as repeating last year's count. These figures rest on a few years of history (target years from 2018 to 2025, varying by figure), place each condition as it is mapped today rather than as it was then, and score against a count for the newest year that was still being revised. Only condition series were scored.

Prediction, not a registry value: median of 34 months from start to primary completion across 135 trials still running at the 2026-10-09 snapshot; registered median of 17 months across 1,329 trials with a primary completion typed Actual. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov / AACT (CTTI), public domain.

What phase are Psoriasis trials in? (9)

Shown in this order: phase order.

Show the trials by phase as a table
Trials by phase
Phase Trials
Phase 1 200
Phase 1/2 29
Phase 2 306
Phase 2/3 16
Phase 3 330
Phase 4 222
Not applicable 281
Observational 540
Expanded access 1

How many Psoriasis trials are recruiting? (10)

Shown in this order: the order a trial moves through, from not yet recruiting to unknown.

Trials by recruitment status
Status Trials
Not yet recruiting 70
Recruiting 187
Enrolling by invitation 12
Active, not recruiting 66
Available 1

Status as registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. Each trial is counted once.

Which lead sponsors run the most Psoriasis trials? (13)

Shown in this order: most trials first. Lead sponsors the registry classes as industry, NIH, US federal, other government or network. A hospital or university the registry files as government can appear here. Sponsors it classes as academic or other are shown on the full page, because that class cannot separate an institution from a named investigator.

Lead sponsors
Sponsor Trials
Novartis Pharmaceuticals 69
AbbVie 64
Amgen 61
Pfizer 53
Bristol-Myers Squibb 39

Which drugs are being tested for Psoriasis? (2)

Shown in this order: most trials first. One row per drug, matched to a single molecule under all its names, ranked by number of trials.

Drugs tested
Drug Trials
INFLIXIMAB 34
(CP-6890,550) Tofacitinib 25

Interventions as named in the registry (13)

Shown in this order: most trials first.

Interventions as named in the registry
Drug Trials
Secukinmab 88
Adalimumab-US 80
1=Etanercept 76
HD- Methotrexate (MTX) 56
Apremilast IR 55

These are the names sponsors entered on ClinicalTrials.gov that we have not matched to a single molecule. Some are drugs under a brand or code name; others are procedures, doses or arm labels.

Which serious adverse events do Psoriasis trials report? (10)

Shown in this order: most subjects affected first. Subjects affected summed across trials, a cross-trial signal, not a rate.

Serious adverse events in this condition's trials
Adverse event Subjects affected Trials
Invasive cancer of any type 1,617 1
Major cardiovascular event 805 1
Gastrointestinal bleeding 744 1
Myocardial infarction 530 71
Prostate cancer (in men) 411 1

Which publications cover Psoriasis? (1,395)

Shown in this order: major-topic papers first, then newest, then most linked to trials.

Sub-conditions in MeSH (2)

MeSH descendants one level down with at least one trial, most trials first.

Not on this page

Not measured: delivery record.

Checked, with nothing recorded for this condition: prevalence and rare-disease identity.

Browse all condition evidence pages