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Karolinska Institutet

ClinicalTrials.gov lists Karolinska Institutet as lead sponsor of 1,138 trials. It has 145 active development programs and 93 approved assets.

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122 0 1990 2027

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

2026 is partial: 100 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 120 in 2026 and about 120 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. 5 trials are registered to start in 2027 or later.

This page covers Karolinska Institutet: 1,138 lead-sponsored trials and 2 legal-entity registrations.

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Disease areas (617)

Shown in this order: most trials first.

Disease areas
Disease area Trials
Anxiety Disorders 100
Pain 69
Diabetes Mellitus 68
Obesity 58
COVID-19 45

Trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator (34)

Shown in this order: most recent first. 2026 is partial: trials registered with a 2026 start date so far, not a full year. 5 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) 100
2025 118
2024 122
2023 105
2022 111
2021 106
2020 100
2019 99
2018 83
2017 95

Prediction, not a registry value: median of 36 months from start to primary completion across 126 trials still running at the 2026-10-09 snapshot; registered median of 24 months across 724 trials with a primary completion typed Actual. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov / AACT (CTTI), public domain.

Active development programs (145)

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

Active development programs
Drug Disease area Max phase Trials
Standard adjuvant therapy of tamoxifen Breast Neoplasms Phase 3 1
Individual dose of tamoxifen Breast Neoplasms Phase 3 1
RITUXIMAB Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting Phase 3 2
RITUXIMAB Multiple Sclerosis Phase 3 2
Test of peritoneal transport with bicarbonate-lactate buffered peritoneal dialysis solution and lactate solutin Renal Insufficiency, Chronic Phase 3 1

Approved assets (93)

Shown in this order: max phase first.

Approved assets
Drug Trials
Exercise 10
Aspirin 3
Mifepristone 3
METFORMIN 3
Diclofenac 2

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
45% hit target (n=338) 38% on time (n=367)

Journals published in (1,257)

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Journals published in
Journal Publications
BMJ open 110
PloS one 81
Trials 59
Lancet (London, England) 56
BMC public health 50

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 0 1988-12-27

Financing and grant events (36)

Shown in this order: most recent first.

Financing and grant events
Date Round type Amount (USD) Source
2025-07-28 NIH grant 484,519 Reporter
2025-07-24 NIH grant 299,877 Reporter
2025-06-05 NIH grant 270,000 Reporter
2025-04-23 NIH grant 147,124 Reporter
2025-03-14 NIH grant 453,043 Reporter

Organization relationships (284)

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Organization relationships
Related organization Relationship Evidence
The Swedish Research Council Co sponsors trial with 19
Göteborg University Co sponsors trial with 14
Stockholm University Co sponsors trial with 8
University Hospital, Linkoeping Co sponsors trial with 7
Umeå University Co sponsors trial with 6

Latest dated events (1,739)

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Latest dated events
Date Event Source
2028-01-01 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))
2027-04-01 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))
2027-01-02 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))
2027-01-01 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))
2027-01-01 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))

Biomarker capability evidence (751)

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

Biomarker capability evidence
Gene Role Evidence
ABCD1 Trial collaborator Named in trial inclusion criteria
ABL1 Trial collaborator Primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial
ACE Trial sponsor Named in trial inclusion criteria
ACE Trial sponsor Named in trial inclusion criteria
ACHE Trial sponsor Named in trial inclusion criteria

Biomarkers this organization publishes on (3,521)

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Biomarkers this organization publishes on
Biomarker Publications
CRP 221
INS 200
TNF 160
IL6 154
ALB 88

Not on this page

Checked, with nothing recorded for this organization: companies grouped under this page, 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, workforce and board diversity, as filed, and clia clinical laboratory certificates.