An observational study in Glioma, Glioma (Any Grade) in the Brain and Glioblastom WHO Grade 4, sponsored by Northwell Health. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-10.
Sponsored by Northwell Health · Observational
This observational study will create a large scale database (registry) of glioma patients' data across multiple participating institutions (hospitals) to study a range of clinical research questions.
The Glioma Connectome Project (GCP) is a study that seeks to use safe, powerful, non-invasive computing tools of machine learning and artificial intelligence, to take information from the functional MRI resting state (rs-fMRI) and the anatomic MRI using diffusion-weighted MRI to develop a comprehensive map of the brain. This "Virtual Brain" in the future may assist neurosurgeons in planning glioma surgery, understanding the cause of neurological deficits caused by the tumor, and a road map to help avert postoperative deficits, while also monitoring recovery of neurological function, as the brain "heals" or reorganizes itself through neuroplasticity.
The information from your MRI will be analyzed using algorithms to produce a map of the key tracts, functional hubs, and connections in the brain in terms of seven major networks: sensorimotor, visual, central executive (CEN), default mode (DMN), salience, dorsal attention (DAN) and limbic system. The completion of the project will advance diagnostics, brain imaging, brain tumor surgery, and provide the basis for new tools and drugs to treat brain injury and accelerate recovery of neurological function lost to the tumor, and treatments for the tumor, including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy.
The registry is being created to evaluate new computer-based technology that builds on ourknowledge of the human brain through the Glioma Connectome Project, which discovered that the brain could be divided into 180 areas per hemisphere or "parcellations", each with a function that is achieved by signaling other areas, forming broad networks, which influence brain function and brain health. Seven major networks are of great interest as they influence human neurological performance. These networks will be identified in the current study, throughout the course of the treatment for your glioma, by using the advanced neuroimaging which is standard of care at Lenox Hill Hospital.
2,132 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioblastoma; 464 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 125 is above the median of 60 across 208 observational studies indexed under Glioblastoma.
Browse Glioblastoma studies →Northwell Health is the lead sponsor of 475 studies on the registry; 107 are open to participants now.
Of its 45 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 23 (51%) have results posted.
Compared within Glioblastoma, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Glioma. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
Newly diagnosed and recurrent glioma (WHO grade II, III, IV) undergoing surgery
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Exclusion Criteria:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Brain metastases
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Karnofsky performance status (KPS)
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Newly diagnosed patients (by MRI) suspected of having a glioma (WHO II,III, or IV) who will undergo surgery with histological confirmation or patients undergoing surgery for recurrent glioma (WHO grades II, III, IV) whose histology confirms glioma and/or treatment effect.
Other: Connectome MRI · Other: Neuropsychological testing
Advanced MRI imaging done preoperatively, immediately following surgery, one month after surgery, and 3 months after surgery, then every 2 to 3 months for the duration of the study. These images are being done as standard of care and include functional MRI resting state (rs-fMRI) and the anatomic MRI using diffusion-weighted MRI to develop a comprehensive map of the brain.
Also known as: MRI
Neuropsychological test that will be administered on an iPad, and should take no more than one hour to complete. Subjects will first complete a mini mental state exam to assess their mental status. This will only take 5-10 minutes to complete. Based on the results they may undergo all or some of the following neuropsychological tests which will be completed on an iPad: * Reaction Time * Rapid Visual Information Processing * Paired Associates Learning Delayed Matching to Sample * Verbal Recognition Memory * Multitasking Test * Spatial Working Memory * Emotion Recognition Task
Also known as: Cambridge Cognition, Mini Mental State Exam
Connectomic Metrics
FWHM (Full width-Half maximum)
Time frame: From enrollment up to 5 years.
Connectomic Metrics
Network index
Time frame: From enrollment up to 5 years.
Connectomic Metrics
Betweenness centrality (the value of each node to the whole network, defined by the fraction of the shortest paths passing through this node to all shortest paths that do not pass through it)
Time frame: From enrollment up to 5 years.
KPS
The KPS describes a patient's functional status as a comprehensive 11-point scale correlating to percentage values ranging from 100% (no evidence of disease, no symptoms) to 0% (death). Each percentage reflects the patient's ability to perform daily activities and their level of independence or care needs. For instance, 100% indicates full independence, while 10% describes a moribund state with rapid disease progression.
Time frame: From enrollment up to 5 years.
Progression-free survival
Progression-free survival (PFS) is the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease without it getting worse, growing, or spreading
Time frame: From enrollment up to 5 years.
Overall survival (OS)
Overall survival (OS) is the length of time from either the date of diagnosis or the start of a treatment until death from any cause.
Time frame: From enrollment up to 5 years.
Molecular markers and drivers of glioma growth
IDH mutational status, MGMT, ki-67, EGFR, p53, ATRX, TERT promoter, 1p19q chromosomal deletions, extent of resection, length of hospital stay
Time frame: From enrollment up to 5 years.
Plan to share: Yes — Clinical Data from the other study centers part of the Glioma Connectome Project (GCP) will be transferred pseudonymously.
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Started Feb 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Feb 2028, 24 months after the start.
Of 84 non-industry observational studies under Glioblastoma, half reached primary completion within 55 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 33 and three quarters within 96. This study's planned 24 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 99 studies reached it within 52 months; a quarter within 33 and three quarters within 96.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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