Organization (Industry)
Liminal BioSciences (Canada)
ClinicalTrials.gov lists Liminal BioSciences (Canada) as lead sponsor of 10 trials. It has 1 approved asset.
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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: 0 registered with a 2026 start date. The dashed outline is the pace from the 0 registered with a start date through September, planned starts included, not adjusted; not a forecast. No forecast is made for this organization: it averages 0.2 trial starts a year over the five years to September, under the 5 a year the method needs.
This page covers Liminal BioSciences (Canada): 10 lead-sponsored trials and 2 legal-entity registrations.
Disease areas (14)
Shown in this order: most trials first.
| Disease area | Trials |
|---|---|
| Diabetes Mellitus | 3 |
| Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 | 2 |
| Fibrosis | 2 |
| Inflammation | 2 |
| Insulin Resistance | 2 |
Showing 5 of 14 disease areas.
Trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator (7)
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 |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2017 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 |
Recruitment duration, a model prediction: none of the 10 trials evaluated at the 2026-10-09 snapshot is predicted and still running. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov / AACT (CTTI), public domain.
Approved assets (1)
| Drug | Trials |
|---|---|
| Phenylbutyrate | 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 |
|---|---|
| 17% hit target (n=6) | 80% on time (n=5) |
Journals published in (1)
| Journal | Publications |
|---|---|
| BMC endocrine disorders | 1 |
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 patents granted | Granted in the last 5 years | Most recent grant |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | 2025-08-05 |
Financing and grant events (1)
| Date | Round type | Amount (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-03 | Private placement | 29,999,436 | Form d |
Organization relationships (1)
| Related organization | Relationship | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Syneos Health (United States) | Uses vendor | 1 |
Latest dated events (16)
Shown in this order: newest first.
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-05 | Patent granted | Granted US patents (PatentsView / USPTO) |
| 2022-12-13 | Patent granted | Granted US patents (PatentsView / USPTO) |
| 2022-05-13 | Trial started | Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)) |
| 2021-11-30 | Patent granted | Granted US patents (PatentsView / USPTO) |
| 2021-02-23 | Patent granted | Granted US patents (PatentsView / USPTO) |
Showing 5 of 16 events.
Biomarker capability evidence (28)
Shown in this order: tier desc, then gene symbol.
| Gene | Role | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| APOBEC3C | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| APOBEC3C | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| SMR3A | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| SMR3A | Trial sponsor | Named in trial inclusion criteria |
| APOBEC3C | Trial sponsor | Named in trial exclusion criteria |
Showing 5 of 28 evidence rows.
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