Brain Death clinical trials

The registry lists 74 studies for Brain Death across more than 10 countries. 10 are recruiting or about to start. 66 of them are mainly about Brain Death (how this is decided). Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-10.

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Status

Completed: 44
Status unknown: 10
Terminated: 7
Not yet recruiting: 5
Recruiting: 5
Active, not recruiting: 2

Phase

Phase 2: 7
Phase 3: 6
Phase 4: 3
Phase 1: 3
Early Phase 1: 1

Where

France: 16
United States: 12
China: 5
Canada: 5
Turkey: 5
Brazil: 3

Who runs them

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland (3) · Institut d'Anesthesiologie des Alpes Maritimes (2) · Nova Scotia Health Authority (2) · Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2) · Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans (2) · Washington University School of Medicine (2) · Kiskunhalas Semmelweis Hospital the Teaching Hospital of the University of Szeged (2) · Brno University Hospital (2)

What is being tested here

Drugs under test in Brain Death studies, those with the most open studies first. Medicines only given beside them are not counted. How drugs are counted

Drug	Open	Phase 3	All
Atorvastatin	1	0	1
Thyroxine	0	1	3
Naloxone	0	1	2
Tacrolimus	0	0	1
Cyclosporine	0	0	1
Liraglutide	0	1	1
Methylprednisolone	0	0	1
Albuterol	0	0	1
Acetylcysteine	0	1	1
Hydrocortisone	0	0	1

Coming up

1phase 3 study under way

1study finishes main data collection within a year

Studies recruiting or running, from their records. “Main data collection” ends at the primary completion date, the sponsor’s own estimate, which often moves.

The study

Nov 2026Automated Screening for Clinically Ascertained Loss of Cerebral Functions · Technische Universität Dresden

Who these studies take

Of the 5 Brain Death studies recruiting now, 4 (80%) set no upper age limit and 1 (20%) stop at 75 or younger. 0 (0%) take children under 18. 0 (0%) are for women only and 0 (0%) for men only; 0 (0%) take healthy volunteers.

Recruiting studies that take each age, of 5
Age	Women	Men
10	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
18	5 (100%)	5 (100%)
30	5 (100%)	5 (100%)
40	5 (100%)	5 (100%)
50	5 (100%)	5 (100%)
65	5 (100%)	5 (100%)
75	5 (100%)	5 (100%)
85	4 (80%)	4 (80%)

Across all 74 studies, recruiting or not: 18% stop at 75 or younger and 9% at 65; 28% take children; 1% are for women only and 0% for men only; 15% take healthy volunteers. From each study’s registry entry; the criteria on its page decide.

How long Brain Death studies take

Of 14 interventional studies with no phase under Brain Death, half reached primary completion within 29 months of starting, counting those still running.

Start to primary completion	Every sponsor	Industry	Non-industry
Interventional, no phase	29 mo24–52 · 14 studies	—	—

Each figure is the month by which half the studies had reached primary completion, with the range in which the middle half did. Studies still running count until their last registry update; studies that stopped early are left out. Phase 1 includes early phase 1; observational means prospective or not stated, as retrospective and cross-sectional studies date a window of data rather than a study. How these figures are worked out

Studies

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