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This week's chart · week of November 2

Who runs clinical trials?

Universities, hospitals and nonprofits lead about 324,000 of the 466,000 clinical trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov as of November 2026, or 70%. Drug, device and other companies lead about 114,000, or 25%; the U.S. National Institutes of Health leads about 7,900. The lead sponsor is the organization responsible for the trial; others may help pay for it.

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (U.S. National Library of Medicine), counted with its API v2 · Data as of Nov 6, 2026

Questions to discuss

  1. In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
  2. Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
  3. Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?
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