Clinical trials
Trials in Saudi Arabia
Search ClinicalTrials.gov registrations by keyword, then narrow by condition, phase, status, country and start year.
1,778 trials match Source: ClinicalTrials.gov registrations
Trials started per year
By phase, 2000 to 2026.
| Category | Trials |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 2 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 24 |
| 2008 | 35 |
| 2009 | 43 |
| 2010 | 34 |
| 2011 | 42 |
| 2012 | 39 |
| 2013 | 43 |
| 2014 | 61 |
| 2015 | 63 |
| 2016 | 63 |
| 2017 | 81 |
| 2018 | 105 |
| 2019 | 118 |
| 2020 | 154 |
| 2021 | 147 |
| 2022 | 132 |
| 2023 | 136 |
| 2024 | 132 |
| 2025 | 162 |
| 2026 | 103 |
Status
Trials by registry status. Select a bar to filter.
| Category | Trials |
|---|---|
| Completed | 1,078 |
| Unknown status | 242 |
| Recruiting | 188 |
| Active, not recruiting | 120 |
| Not yet recruiting | 62 |
| Terminated | 54 |
| Enrolling by invitation | 17 |
| Withdrawn | 8 |
| Suspended | 7 |
| Approved for marketing | 1 |
| No longer available | 1 |
Top lead sponsors
A sponsor with a page on Pharma Observatory links to it.
| Category | Trials |
|---|---|
| King Saud University | 134 |
| King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center | 80 |
| King Abdulaziz University | 79 |
| Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University | 73 |
| Novartis Pharmaceuticals | 50 |
| Cairo University | 49 |
| Umm Al-Qura University | 44 |
| AstraZeneca | 43 |
| Qassim University | 39 |
| King Abdullah International Medical Research Center | 38 |
Top conditions
MeSH conditions the trials were registered with, not their broader categories. A condition with a page on Pharma Observatory links to it.
| Category | Trials |
|---|---|
| Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 | 50 |
| Breast Neoplasms | 46 |
| COVID-19 | 41 |
| Obesity | 36 |
| Pain | 36 |
| Diabetes Mellitus | 33 |
| Cerebral Palsy | 31 |
| Postoperative Pain | 28 |
| Osteoarthritis, Knee | 27 |
| Stroke | 27 |
Trials
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