Taste Disorders clinical trials

The registry lists 43 studies for Taste Disorders across more than 10 countries. 6 are recruiting or about to start. 16 of them are mainly about Taste Disorders (how this is decided). Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-21. Counting its narrower condition Dysgeusia too: 87 studies, 16 open.

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Status

Completed: 26
Status unknown: 8
Recruiting: 5
Withdrawn: 2
Not yet recruiting: 1
Active, not recruiting: 1

Phase

Phase 1: 3
Phase 3: 1
Phase 4: 1
Early Phase 1: 1
Phase 2: 1

Where

France: 7
Germany: 5
United States: 4
Egypt: 4
Turkey: 4
Brazil: 2

Who runs them

Cairo University (3) · Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah (2) · University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland (2) · Centre Hospitalier de Valence (2) · Wuerzburg University Hospital (2) · Wake Forest University Health Sciences (1) · Karadeniz Technical University (1) · Hanife Köksal (1)

What is being tested here

Drugs under test in Taste Disorders 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
Cerebrolysin	0	0	1
Lactisole	0	0	1
Dronabinol	0	0	1
Insulin Aspart	0	0	1
Lactoferrin	0	0	1

Coming up

1phase 3 study under way

4studies finish main data collection within a year1 of them phase 3

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

All 4, phase 3 first

Nov 2026Addressing Taste Dysfunction With Miraculin in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy · Phase 3 · University of California, San Francisco
Dec 2026Gustabor Phase 1 - AI-based Creation of a Nutritional Plan to Compensate for Chemotherapy-induced Taste Disorders · Wuerzburg University Hospital
Dec 2026Gustabor Phase 2 - Treating Taste Changes During Cancer Therapy: A Randomized Study Evaluating an AI- Based Nutrition Intervention · Wuerzburg University Hospital
Jan 2027Prospective Registery of Smell/Taste Clinic Ear/Nose/Throat · Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Who these studies take

Of the 5 Taste Disorders studies recruiting now, 5 (100%) set no upper age limit and 0 (0%) stop at 75 or younger. 1 (20%) 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	1 (20%)	1 (20%)
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	5 (100%)	5 (100%)

Across all 43 studies, recruiting or not: 37% stop at 75 or younger and 26% at 65; 7% take children; 2% are for women only and 2% for men only; 28% take healthy volunteers. From each study’s registry entry; the criteria on its page decide.

Studies

Recruiting first, then most recently updated. Showing 43 of 43. search them.