Featured Studies

Investigators at The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are conducting a research study to understand taste and smell alterations and how they differ in obese versus non-obese individuals.

Investigators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are enrolling patients with advanced hepatocellular cancers (HCC), in a clinical trial using engineered immune cells, also known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cells or CAR-T cells. In this study, your immune T-cells are collected and modified to target Glypican-3 (GPC3), a protein marker found on the surface of HCC tumors. Researchers hope the altered cells will help identify and fight the cancer cells.

Doctors at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are looking for volunteers with metastatic cancers, including breast, ovarian, endometrial, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and multiple myeloma with solid masses. Potential participants will be evaluated with new immunotherapy treatments utilizing cell transfer immunotherapies in a research trial.

NIH study # 000479-H investigates the impact of treatments intended to cure sickle cell disease (SCD) on organ function. If you or your loved one has SCD, we invite you to call us to learn more about this observational study.

Did you know your thyroid gland produces hormones that regulate body temperature, heart rate and metabolism? Physicians want to explore a better method to detect thyroid tumors by using a compound called 68Gallium-DOTATATE. This compound may bind to a tumor and make it visible during a PET/CT scan. This information will help guide future research and treatment.

Researchers at @NIDDKgov are studying new methods in treating thyroid cancer that has spread outside the thyroid – to the lymph nodes, lungs, or bones We are now enrolling patients age 18 years and older with thyroid cancer that spread outside the thyroid. All study tests and procedures are provided at no cost. 

Do you or your child experience recurring fever with mouth sores (canker sores), sore throat, or swollen neck glands? These could be symptoms of PFAPA, the most common periodic fever syndrome in children.

Dr. Manthiram and her team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) seek volunteers who are one month and older (parental consent required for minors) to participate in a research study to better understand PFAPA. Compensation provided. Participants can join from home anywhere in the USA or internationally.

To look at a broad range of traits in people who are healthy people and people with alcohol problems. To study them for potential eligibility for other research protocols conducted at the NIH Clinical Center.

To learn how malaria develops in people; how the body's immune system reacts to malaria; and how malaria spreads from people to mosquitoes.