Organization (Industry)
SK Life Science (United States)
ClinicalTrials.gov lists SK Life Science (United States) as lead sponsor of 43 trials. It has 16 active development programs and 5 approved assets.
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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: 1 registered with a 2026 start date. The dashed outline is the pace from the 1 registered with a start date through September, planned starts included, not adjusted; not a forecast. No forecast is made for this organization: it averages 1.2 trial starts a year over the five years to September, under the 5 a year the method needs.
Logo SK Group, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Shown to identify the organization; it may be a registered trademark.
This page covers SK Life Science (United States): 43 lead-sponsored trials and 1 legal-entity registration. Part of S K GROUP.
Related companies are recorded in the same corporate group by GLEIF, ROR or a curator but are not grouped here; they are listed below with their own counts and are not included in the figures above.
Disease areas (32)
Shown in this order: most trials first (counted at this company's own legal-entity record, not the consolidated group).
| Disease area | Trials |
|---|---|
| Epilepsy | 20 |
| Seizures | 15 |
| Epilepsies, Partial | 13 |
| Epilepsy, Complex Partial | 5 |
| Lennox Gastaut Syndrome | 4 |
Showing 5 of 32 disease areas.
Trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator (20)
Shown in this order: most recent first. 2026 is partial: trials registered with a 2026 start date so far, not a full year.
Show the table of trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator
| Year | Trials started |
|---|---|
| 2026 (partial year) | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2020 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 |
Showing 10 of 20 years.
Recruitment duration, a model prediction: 2 trials still running at the 2026-10-09 snapshot, fewer than the 5 needed for a median. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov / AACT (CTTI), public domain.
Active development programs (16)
Shown in this order: max phase, then active trials.
| Drug | Disease area | Max phase | Trials |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carisbamate | Epilepsy | Phase 3 | 13 |
| Carisbamate | Seizures | Phase 3 | 9 |
| Cenobamate | Epilepsy | Phase 3 | 7 |
| Cenobamate | Epilepsies, Partial | Phase 3 | 6 |
| Carisbamate | Lennox Gastaut Syndrome | Phase 3 | 4 |
Showing 5 of 16 active programs.
Approved assets (5)
Shown in this order: max phase first.
| Drug | Trials |
|---|---|
| Cenobamate | 15 |
| Topiramate | 1 |
| LEVETIRACETAM | 1 |
| MIDAZOLAM | 1 |
| (alprax) alprazolam | 1 |
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.
| Enrollment | Timeline |
|---|---|
| 57% hit target (n=14) | 8% on time (n=13) |
FDA untitled letters (1)
| Issue date | Letter |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 189733 |
FDA inspection record (1)
| Latest classification | Inspections |
|---|---|
| VAI | 2 |
Biomarker capability evidence (44)
Shown in this order: tier desc, then gene symbol.
| Gene | Role | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| ALB | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| BTC | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| LGSN | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| LGSN | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| MPL | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
Showing 5 of 44 evidence rows.
Not on this page
Checked, with nothing recorded for this organization: companies grouped under this page, sec-reported annual financials, financing and grant events, fda warning letters, fda recalls, fda import refusals, manufacturing and distribution sites, climate targets, as filed, workforce and board diversity, as filed, organization relationships, and clia clinical laboratory certificates.
Counted at group level under SK Group (South Korea): journals published in, us granted patents, latest dated events, and biomarkers this organization publishes on.