Clinical Trials by Medical Condition
Browse 11611 medical conditions with active clinical trials. Data updated daily from ClinicalTrials.gov.
Who's actually running the trials in your condition?
Two people with different diagnoses can walk into very different research worlds. In some conditions, drug companies sponsor close to a third of the open studies. In others it's closer to one in twenty, and nearly everything is run by universities and hospitals. That shapes what kind of trial you're likely to find: new medicines versus studies of therapy, devices, exercise or how existing care is delivered.
We checked 24 common conditions on ClinicalTrials.gov on 28 September 2026, counting only studies that were recruiting.
| Condition | Recruiting | Industry-led | Observational | With a US site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rheumatoid arthritis | 298 | 30.9% | 35% | 26% |
| Lung cancer | 2,317 | 30.6% | 24% | 38% |
| Asthma | 378 | 24.3% | 35% | 34% |
| Crohn's disease | 330 | 23.3% | 38% | 32% |
| Colorectal cancer | 1,582 | 21.3% | 24% | 34% |
| Prostate cancer | 1,229 | 20.3% | 23% | 49% |
| Type 2 diabetes | 877 | 20.3% | 23% | 35% |
| Leukemia | 1,417 | 19.3% | 18% | 47% |
| COPD | 433 | 19.2% | 34% | 23% |
| Chronic kidney disease | 567 | 18.2% | 33% | 31% |
| Breast cancer | 2,452 | 17.7% | 24% | 38% |
| Alzheimer's disease | 626 | 17.4% | 32% | 45% |
| Multiple sclerosis | 429 | 17.0% | 34% | 37% |
| Heart failure | 997 | 16.6% | 38% | 33% |
| Parkinson's disease | 681 | 15.1% | 30% | 37% |
| Obesity | 1,490 | 14.6% | 23% | 41% |
| Hypertension | 1,191 | 14.4% | 34% | 36% |
| Sickle cell disease | 167 | 14.4% | 28% | 70% |
| Schizophrenia | 379 | 13.7% | 16% | 40% |
| Stroke | 1,697 | 7.0% | 26% | 24% |
| Depression | 1,448 | 6.1% | 16% | 43% |
| HIV | 587 | 6.0% | 24% | 49% |
| Pain | 3,497 | 5.5% | 17% | 30% |
| Autism | 364 | 5.5% | 23% | 44% |
Rheumatoid arthritis (30.9%) and lung cancer (30.6%) lead, followed by asthma and Crohn's. At the other end, company money barely shows up. Autism and pain both sit at 5.5%, HIV at 6.0%, depression at 6.1%, stroke at 7.0%. Pain has more recruiting studies than any other condition here, 3,497 of them, and industry leads fewer than 200.
The US column tells its own story. Seven in ten recruiting sickle cell studies have an American site, far more than any other condition on the list. For COPD it's fewer than one in four, and for rheumatoid arthritis about one in four. If you're outside the US and have one of those high-US-share conditions, your local options will be thinner than the headline count suggests.
Industry-led means the lead sponsor is classed as industry on the registry record; many academic studies still get drug or money from a company, which this doesn't capture. Counts use the registry's condition search, so a study can appear under more than one condition. Chronic kidney disease, heart failure and sickle cell disease don't have their own ClinicalMetric page yet, so they aren't linked.
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Trial counts reflect data indexed from ClinicalTrials.gov and are updated daily. The A–Z directory shows conditions with 3 or more active trials. Each condition page shows currently recruiting and active studies.