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Northwestern University

Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, United States is listed as a site for 2,168 registered clinical trials, 757 of them ongoing.

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Registered trials 2,168
Ongoing 757

This page covers the site record Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, United States: the trials that list it by this name in ClinicalTrials.gov. The same place can be registered under other names, each with its own page and its own trials, and a count here is a number of registered trials, not of patients enrolled. The organization of the same name, Northwestern University, also sponsors trials.

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Trials by phase

Registered trials that list this site, by trial phase. 2,168 trials counted.

  • Phase 1 145 trials
  • Phase 1/2 117 trials
  • Phase 2 583 trials
  • Phase 2/3 70 trials
  • Phase 3 469 trials
  • Phase 4 59 trials
  • Not applicable 465 trials
  • Observational 249 trials
  • Expanded access 11 trials

Trials by status

The registry's own status summary: Ongoing, Completed, Terminated or Other.

  • Ongoing 759 trials
  • Completed 1,061 trials
  • Terminated 287 trials
  • Other 61 trials

Trials over time

Trials registered with a start date in each year, 1990 onward, most recent years first.

Trials over time, by phase

  • Phase 1
  • Phase 1/2
  • Phase 2
  • Phase 2/3
  • Phase 3
  • Phase 4
  • Not applicable
  • Observational

Top of scale: 139

1992: 1 trials (Observational 1) 1995: 1 trials (Phase 3 1) 1997: 1 trials (Phase 3 1) 1998: 3 trials (Observational 1, Phase 4 1, Phase 3 1) 1999: 4 trials (Phase 4 1, Phase 3 3) 2000: 5 trials (Not applicable 1, Phase 3 4) 2001: 5 trials (Phase 3 1, Phase 2 3, Phase 1 1) 2002: 15 trials (Not applicable 1, Phase 3 5, Phase 2/3 1, Phase 2 8) 2003: 22 trials (Observational 4, Not applicable 3, Phase 4 1, Phase 3 10, Phase 2 3, Phase 1/2 1) 2004: 27 trials (Observational 2, Not applicable 4, Phase 4 2, Phase 3 8, Phase 2 9, Phase 1/2 2) 2005: 28 trials (Observational 8, Not applicable 1, Phase 4 1, Phase 3 6, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 8, Phase 1/2 2) 2006: 48 trials (Observational 9, Not applicable 7, Phase 3 10, Phase 2 18, Phase 1/2 1, Phase 1 3) 2007: 59 trials (Observational 7, Not applicable 7, Phase 4 1, Phase 3 17, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 16, Phase 1/2 5, Phase 1 4) 2008: 45 trials (Observational 5, Not applicable 7, Phase 4 2, Phase 3 8, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 14, Phase 1/2 3, Phase 1 4) 2009: 68 trials (Observational 8, Not applicable 11, Phase 4 3, Phase 3 16, Phase 2 20, Phase 1/2 3, Phase 1 7) 2010: 87 trials (Observational 10, Not applicable 22, Phase 4 3, Phase 3 17, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 22, Phase 1/2 6, Phase 1 5) 2011: 80 trials (Observational 12, Not applicable 12, Phase 4 1, Phase 3 16, Phase 2 25, Phase 1/2 9, Phase 1 5) 2012: 87 trials (Observational 7, Not applicable 22, Phase 4 2, Phase 3 20, Phase 2/3 1, Phase 2 25, Phase 1/2 4, Phase 1 6) 2013: 80 trials (Observational 6, Not applicable 20, Phase 4 3, Phase 3 14, Phase 2/3 3, Phase 2 26, Phase 1/2 4, Phase 1 4) 2014: 102 trials (Observational 15, Not applicable 16, Phase 3 17, Phase 2/3 11, Phase 2 25, Phase 1/2 10, Phase 1 8) 2015: 110 trials (Observational 15, Not applicable 23, Phase 4 2, Phase 3 23, Phase 2/3 3, Phase 2 33, Phase 1/2 6, Phase 1 5) 2016: 95 trials (Observational 12, Not applicable 21, Phase 4 4, Phase 3 16, Phase 2/3 6, Phase 2 24, Phase 1/2 6, Phase 1 6) 2017: 139 trials (Observational 11, Not applicable 26, Phase 4 6, Phase 3 35, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 47, Phase 1/2 3, Phase 1 9) 2018: 116 trials (Observational 14, Not applicable 31, Phase 4 3, Phase 3 18, Phase 2/3 4, Phase 2 32, Phase 1/2 7, Phase 1 7) 2019: 138 trials (Observational 17, Not applicable 27, Phase 3 30, Phase 2/3 8, Phase 2 31, Phase 1/2 10, Phase 1 15) 2020: 119 trials (Observational 15, Not applicable 24, Phase 4 2, Phase 3 28, Phase 2/3 4, Phase 2 33, Phase 1/2 5, Phase 1 8) 2021: 130 trials (Observational 17, Not applicable 31, Phase 4 5, Phase 3 27, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 30, Phase 1/2 8, Phase 1 10) 2022: 118 trials (Observational 13, Not applicable 29, Phase 4 6, Phase 3 15, Phase 2/3 5, Phase 2 29, Phase 1/2 9, Phase 1 12) 2023: 119 trials (Observational 10, Not applicable 29, Phase 4 3, Phase 3 32, Phase 2/3 4, Phase 2 29, Phase 1/2 4, Phase 1 8) 2024: 122 trials (Observational 14, Not applicable 35, Phase 4 3, Phase 3 20, Phase 2/3 4, Phase 2 36, Phase 1/2 3, Phase 1 7) 2025: 93 trials (Observational 8, Not applicable 22, Phase 4 4, Phase 3 31, Phase 2/3 2, Phase 2 16, Phase 1/2 3, Phase 1 7)

Trials that list this site and are registered with a start date in each year, 1990 onward, stacked by phase (complete years only; the current partial year is in the table). The table below lists the same counts, most recent years first.

Trials started per year
Year Trials started
2026 (partial year) 79
2025 93
2024 122
2023 119
2022 118
2021 130
2020 119
2019 138
2018 116
2017 139

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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

Recent trials

The newest registered trials that list this site. Each title opens its ClinicalTrials.gov record.

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov

Lead sponsors

Most trials first. Lead sponsors the registry classes as industry, NIH, US federal, other government or network. A hospital or university the registry files as government can appear here. Sponsors it classes as academic or other are shown on the full page, because that class cannot separate an institution from a named investigator.

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Conditions studied

The specific conditions of the trials that list this site, most trials first.

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