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July 15, 2025: ClinicalTrials.gov and the State of Clinical Trials, in This Week’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds

Posted on by Damon Seils
Headshots of Adrian Hernandez and Rebecca Sullenger
Adrian Hernandez and Rebecca Sullenger

In this Friday’s Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds, Adrian Hernandez and Rebecca Sullenger of Duke University will present “State of Clinical Trials: An Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov.”

They will be joined by a discussion panel that will include Sara Bristol Calvert of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) and Karen Chiswell and Christopher J. Lindsell of Duke University.

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, July 18, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.

Hernandez, who serves as co–principal investigator of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Coordinating Center, is a professor of medicine and vice dean in the Duke University School of Medicine and executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). Sullenger is an MD student in the Duke University School of Medicine. Calvert is director of projects at CTTI, Chiswell is a statistical scientist at the DCRI, and Lindsell is the director of data science and biostatistics at the DCRI.

Join the online meeting.

January 13, 2020: National Library of Medicine Launches a Modernization of ClinicalTrials.gov

Posted on by Gina Uhlenbrauck

As the National Library of Medicine (NLM) celebrates 20 years of ClinicalTrials.gov, a new multi-year initiative is underway to modernize and enhance the user experience of this public resource. To that end, NLM is seeking actionable input through a Request for Information (RFI) and will hold an informational webinar for stakeholders as well as a public meeting:

  • Request for Information due March 14, 2020.
  • Webinar on the modernization effort for all stakeholders January 22, 3:30-4:00 pm ET. Register for the webinar.
  • Save the date for a public meeting planned for April 30, 2020, at the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

“ClinicalTrials.gov is the world’s largest public clinical research registry and results database, giving patients, families, health care providers, researchers, and others easy access to information on clinical studies relating to a wide range of diseases and conditions.” –NLM’s Musings from the Mezzanine blog.