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Diseases / Psoriasis

Psoriasis

Disease

Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease marked by accelerated keratinocyte turnover and recurrent erythematous scaly plaques.

Trials
1454
Recruiting
121
Completed
975
With results
429

Last revised

Pipeline

Phase by status

PhaseRecruitingNot yetBy invitationActiveCompletedTerminatedWithdrawnSuspendedUnknownTotal
Early Phase 1 215224 16
Phase 1 9231231227 158
Phase 1/2 12043 28
Phase 2 103220319639 255
Phase 2/3 11821 13
Phase 3 95152041269 251
Phase 4 146311611528 183
Not applicable 271061079539 203
Unknown 4920519189148241 347

Trials started per year

2021
24
2022
78
2023
74
2024
49
2025
74
2026
64

Conditions studied, by phase

ConditionEarly Phase 1Phase 1Phase 1/2Phase 2Phase 2/3Phase 3Phase 4Not applicableUnknownTotal
Psoriasis 161582825513251183203347 1454
Arthritis, Psoriatic 1519122102255 126
Dermatitis, Atopic 2814261435 72
Skin Diseases 1311717749 59
Arthritis, Rheumatoid 16121634 51
Crohn Disease 322228 37
Pruritus 1614264 33
Spondylitis, Ankylosing 112126 31
Eczema 1251912 30
Inflammation 3551311 28

Most active sponsors

#SponsorTrialsPhase 3
1Amgen5024
2Novartis Pharmaceuticals4924
3AbbVie4420
4Pfizer399
5Bristol-Myers Squibb318
6Eli Lilly and Company2310
7Boehringer Ingelheim204
8Bausch Health Americas, Inc.183
9Janssen Research & Development, LLC1810
10Cairo University171

Most studied interventions

#InterventionTrials
1Etanercept66
2secukinumab63
3Adalimumab61
4Ustekinumab49
5apremilast46
6Methotrexate42
7guselkumab33
8risankizumab32
9deucravacitinib29
10calcipotriene27

Evidence

Results reported
44%429 of 975 completed
Published
9.7%95 of 975 completed
Primary endpoint met
56.6%380 of 671 analyses
Median months to report
17

Documents disclosed

Protocol available
203
Statistical analysis plan
197
PubMed citations
279

Trial profile

Median enrollment
84
Median duration
21months
Countries
76
Study sites
14477

Who is enrolled

Adults
1420
Children
164
Older adults
1301
Healthy volunteers
262

Median enrollment by phase

Early Phase 1
13
Phase 1
34
Phase 1/2
19
Phase 2
62
Phase 2/3
125
Phase 3
311
Phase 4
50
Not applicable
50
Unknown
200

Where trials run

United States
555
Germany
208
Canada
202
China
128
France
122
Poland
116
United Kingdom
109
Spain
93
Japan
79
Hungary
78

Busiest cities

#CityCountryTrials
1New YorkUnited States132
2HamburgGermany118
3DallasUnited States116
4MontrealCanada114
5HoustonUnited States111
6BerlinGermany109
7PortlandUnited States109
8San DiegoUnited States109
9WaterlooCanada107
10San AntonioUnited States104

Terminations

Terminated
85
Withdrawn
34
Suspended
5
Stopped for recruitment
2.1%31 of 1454 trials

Stated reasons

Other / unclear
52
Recruitment
31
Business decision
19
Funding
7
Regulatory
7
Lack of efficacy
6
Safety
2

Reasons are grouped from the sponsor's own wording with a rule-based classifier; the original text is shown below.

Recently stopped

TrialStatusStated reasonStopped
NCT04031469 Suspended Suspended Administrative 2030-12-10
NCT04099979 Withdrawn Withdrawn Company focus shifted 2030-07-31
NCT06886009 Withdrawn Withdrawn Sponsor decision 2029-06-08
NCT07314060 Terminated Terminated Due to the company's strategic adjustment in product portfolio, this study has been voluntarily terminated. 2026-07-30
NCT07449234 Terminated Terminated Study terminated due to insufficient enrollment. 2026-06-29
NCT06723171 Suspended Suspended Sponsor request for study hold 2026-04-30
NCT05601492 Withdrawn Withdrawn Terminated IRB approval 6/26/2024, study was never initiated or activated 2026-02-28
NCT07000630 Terminated Terminated Terminated early due to lack of expected efficacy. Three participants were enrolled but none completed the study. 2025-12-01
NCT07255781 Withdrawn Withdrawn The sponsor determined that enrollment would not meet their expectations and decided to withdraw the study. 2025-11-30
NCT06242847 Terminated Terminated The study's collaborating dermatologist left the institution, and so skin biopsies could no longer be performed. 2025-11-12

Trial records

Individual study records live on ClinicalTrials.gov. A sample of the trials counted above:

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