Consumer Health & Patient Education: Clinical Research

Clinical trials are research studies that test how well new medical approaches work in people. Each study answers scientific questions and tries to find better ways to prevent, screen for, diagnose, or treat a disease. Clinical trials may also compare a new treatment to a treatment that is already available.

ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.

Description of ongoing health research here at URMC.

Information about clinical trials from NIH's National Cancer Institute

Search for all the open studies at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Healthy volunteers are needed for many clinical trials, here is a list of current studies looking for healthy volunteers.

You can register with the URMC local volunteer registry and the national registry for future studies.