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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

ClinicalTrials.gov lists Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as lead sponsor of 484 trials. It has 86 active development programs and 81 approved assets.

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51 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: 31 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 36 in 2026 and about 38 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 (20 to 100), forecasts made part-way through the year were typically off by about 18 percent and ran about 14 percent low against the count later registered; forecasts made before the year began were off by about 26 percent and ran about 20 percent low against the count later registered. 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.

This page covers Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: 484 lead-sponsored trials and 1 legal-entity registration.

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Disease areas (449)

Shown in this order: most trials first.

Disease areas
Disease area Trials
Anemia 29
Heart Defects, Congenital 21
Mitochondrial Diseases 20
Autism Spectrum Disorder 19
Cystic Fibrosis 18

Trials by start year as sponsor or collaborator (33)

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) 31
2025 46
2024 29
2023 51
2022 40
2021 41
2020 37
2019 45
2018 50
2017 48

Prediction, not a registry value: median of 36 months from start to primary completion across 50 trials still running at the 2026-10-09 snapshot; registered median of 29 months across 361 trials with a primary completion typed Actual. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov / AACT (CTTI), public domain.

Active development programs (86)

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

Active development programs
Drug Disease area Max phase Trials
Lactated Ringer Sepsis Phase 3 2
Lactated Ringer Shock, Septic Phase 3 2
Lactated Ringer Inflammation Phase 3 2
Lidocaine Hydrochloride 2 mg/mL Injectable Solution Headache Phase 3 1
Lidocaine Hydrochloride 2 mg/mL Injectable Solution Pain Phase 3 1

Approved assets (81)

Shown in this order: max phase first.

Approved assets
Drug Trials
+/- Bupivacaine HCl 3
FENTANYL 2
DEXMEDETOMIDINE 2
Albuterol, ipratropium bromide 1
Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) 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.

Sponsor delivery record
Enrollment Timeline
42% hit target (n=175) 33% on time (n=178)

Journals published in (844)

Shown in this order: most published in first.

Journals published in
Journal Publications
Pediatrics 117
The Journal of pediatrics 60
The New England journal of medicine 40
JAMA 32
Blood 30

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
283 73 2025-12-16

FDA inspection record (1)

FDA inspection record
Latest classification Inspections
NAI 8

Organization relationships (364)

Shown in this order: most evidence first.

Organization relationships
Related organization Relationship Evidence
Government of the United States of America Co sponsors trial with 47
University of California System Co sponsors trial with 34
Harris Health System Co sponsors trial with 31
Children's National Research Institute Co sponsors trial with 21
Lurie Children's Hospital Co sponsors trial with 19

Latest dated events (1,083)

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Latest dated events
Date Event Source
2027-09-01 Trial started Clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) (ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine; AACT database, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI))
2027-02 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))
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 (1,500)

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

Biomarker capability evidence
Gene Role Evidence
A2ML1 Testing lab / CRO (runs the assay) Clinical-testing interpretation submitted (ClinVar)
AASS Testing lab / CRO (runs the assay) Clinical-testing interpretation submitted (ClinVar)
ABCA13 Testing lab / CRO (runs the assay) Clinical-testing interpretation submitted (ClinVar)
ABCA2 Trial sponsor Named in trial inclusion criteria
ABCA7 Testing lab / CRO (runs the assay) Clinical-testing interpretation submitted (ClinVar)

Biomarkers this organization publishes on (1,737)

Shown in this order: most publications first.

Biomarkers this organization publishes on
Biomarker Publications
INS 71
CRP 47
CD4 45
IL6 41
CD19 37

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, financing and grant events, fda warning letters, fda untitled letters, fda recalls, fda import refusals, manufacturing and distribution sites, climate targets, as filed, workforce and board diversity, as filed, and clia clinical laboratory certificates.