Featured Studies

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seek healthy volunteers to provide blood samples for research studies of blood vessels and immune diseases that cause clotting. In this study, investigators want to understand the basis of these diseases to facilitate the development of better treatments.

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are conducting a clinical trial to study new imaging techniques for those with HCC. Pictures (Images) are taken with a positron emission tomography (PET) using a new investigational imaging radiotracer, 18 F-DCFPyL. Our research study focus is to see if this tracer will improve images taken of your liver to identify HCC tumors earlier in the disease process. We will also determine if we can see differences between treated tumors and the development of new tumors.

Each year, the number of cases of tick-borne diseases increases. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Lyme Disease Studies Unit is looking for healthy volunteers to participate in a research study to learn more about how the human immune system responds to tick bites.

We are looking for people recently diagnosed with Lyme disease to help us answer important questions about the infection. If you have or had the rash associated with acute Lyme disease (erythema migrans), facial palsy, meningitis, heart block, or arthritis; please consider participating in our study.

Malaria is a dangerous disease that impacts hundreds of millions of people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It can cause severe disease and even death. Researchers at NIH's Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology are seeking healthy volunteers to be part of a malaria vaccine research study.

A research study at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is is investigating how dietary habits affect our intestinal microorganisms by studying the effects of Mediterranean-like unprocessed (CLEAN-MED) diet. Participants will be divided into two groups, depending on their interest in trying out the diet for 4 weeks or maintaining a new healthy diet over months, and will be provided with some foods. Participants will log the food they eat and answer questions about their diet throughtout the study. Food and research supplies and procedures are provided at no cost.

Do you... Find yourself constantly checking things? Spend lots of time ordering your belongings? Have unusual rituals or habits that seem unnecessary? Do you blurt out comments at inappropriate times, interrupt conversations or speak out of turn or feel you are overly impulsive? The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is conducting an outpatient research study on the links between compulsivity, impulsivity and the developing brain in children and young adults.

Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) are seeking healthy children between 2-17 years old to participate in a research study to better understand the immune system of patients with mitochondrial disease in comparison to their healthy peers.