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University of Washington

ClinicalTrials.gov lists University of Washington as lead sponsor of 1,429 trials, counting the companies grouped under it. University of Washington itself has 713 active development programs and 334 approved assets.

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114 0 1990 2027

Trials started per year with this organization as sponsor or collaborator, 1990 onward. Companies grouped under this one are not included. The series also counts trials where the organization is a collaborator; the lead-sponsor trial count does not.

2026 is partial: 89 registered with a 2026 start date. The hollow diamonds on the dashed line are a forecast of the full-year count, planned starts included: about 96 in 2026 and about 99 in 2027, the average of the 24 months through September, counted as registered and carried forward. The columns, the lighter one included, 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. This method has not been backtested on organizations. In backtests on conditions with as many trial starts a year as this organization (100 to 500), 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. 6 trials are registered to start in 2027 or later.

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This page covers University of Washington and 1 company grouped under it: 1,429 lead-sponsored trials (1,428 its own, 1 in the grouped companies) and 5 legal-entity registrations (4 its own, 1 in the grouped companies).

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Companies grouped under this page (1)

Companies grouped under this page
Company Lead trials Legal entities
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center 1 1

Disease areas (645)

Shown in this order: most trials first.

Disease areas
Disease area Trials
HIV Infections 115
Pain 113
Substance-Related Disorders 94
Breast Neoplasms 75
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome 58

Trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator (36)

Shown in this order: most recent first. 2026 is partial: trials registered with a 2026 start date so far, not a full year. 6 trials are registered to start in 2027 or later, and not listed here.

Show the table of trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator
Trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator
Year Trials started
2026 (partial year) 89
2025 99
2024 107
2023 114
2022 111
2021 104
2020 102
2019 113
2018 105
2017 87

Prediction, not a registry value: median of 36 months from start to primary completion across 167 trials still running at the 2026-10-09 snapshot; registered median of 30 months across 1,012 trials with a primary completion typed Actual. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov / AACT (CTTI), public domain.

Active development programs (713)

Shown in this order: max phase, then active trials.

Active development programs
Drug Disease area Max phase Trials
Lactoferrin Child Nutrition Disorders Phase 3 1
Lactoferrin Weight Loss Phase 3 1
Lactoferrin Cachexia Phase 3 1
Lactoferrin Diarrhea Phase 3 1
BEXSERO Gonorrhea Phase 3 1

Approved assets (334)

Shown in this order: max phase first.

Approved assets
Drug Trials
Treatment As Usual 14
Valacyclovir 9
Testosterone Gel 9
DEXAMETHASONE 9
Letrozole 8

Sponsor delivery record (1)

Enrollment hit target: the share of this sponsor's lead-sponsored trials whose actual enrollment reached the planned enrollment. On time: the share whose actual primary completion date was no later than the planned date. Each share counts only trials where we observed an estimated figure before the actual one, and n is that number of trials. Below 5 trials the count is shown as a fraction, not a percentage.

Sponsor delivery record
Enrollment Timeline
41% hit target (n=504) 36% on time (n=498)

Journals published in (1,236)

Shown in this order: most published in first.

Journals published in
Journal Publications
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 88
The New England journal of medicine 88
JAMA 77
Circulation 67
PloS one 67

US granted patents (1)

Patents are not classified by disease area in the source, so this is the organization's overall portfolio, not a split by disease.

US granted patents
US patents granted Granted in the last 5 years Most recent grant
1,628 317 2025-12-30

Financing and grant events (5,646)

Shown in this order: most recent first.

Financing and grant events
Date Round type Amount (USD) Source
2025-09-30 NIH grant 971,789 Reporter
2025-09-30 NIH grant 717,393 Reporter
2025-09-30 NIH grant 2,180,149 Reporter
2025-09-30 NIH grant 952,643 Reporter
2025-09-30 NIH grant 35,622 Reporter

Organization relationships (454)

Shown in this order: most evidence first.

Organization relationships
Related organization Relationship Evidence
Government of the United States of America Co sponsors trial with 311
University of California System Co sponsors trial with 41
Wellcome Trust Co sponsors trial with 24
Johns Hopkins University Co sponsors trial with 21
University of Michigan Co sponsors trial with 20

Latest dated events (9,264)

Shown in this order: newest first.

Latest dated events
Date Event Source
2027-07 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))
2027-02-01 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))
2027-02-01 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))
2027-01-15 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))
2027-01 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))

CLIA clinical laboratory certificates (2)

Shown in this order: active first, then certificate type.

CLIA clinical laboratory certificates
Lab Certificate Status
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Certificate of compliance Active
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Certificate of waiver Active

Biomarker capability evidence (2,465)

Shown in this order: tier desc, then gene symbol.

Biomarker capability evidence
Gene Role Evidence
ABL1 Trial sponsor Named in trial inclusion criteria
ABL1 Trial sponsor Named in trial inclusion criteria
ABL1 Trial sponsor Named in trial inclusion criteria
ABRAXAS1 Trial sponsor Named in trial inclusion criteria
ACAT1 Trial collaborator Named in trial inclusion criteria

Biomarkers this organization publishes on (3,736)

Shown in this order: most publications first.

Biomarkers this organization publishes on
Biomarker Publications
CD4 335
INS 242
CRP 172
TNF 143
IL6 133

Not on this page

Checked, with nothing recorded for this organization: related companies not grouped here, sec-reported annual financials, fda warning letters, fda untitled letters, fda inspection record, fda recalls, fda import refusals, manufacturing and distribution sites, climate targets, as filed, and workforce and board diversity, as filed.