Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are prospective research studies that evaluate the safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of medical interventions—drugs, biologics, devices, procedures, and behavioral therapies—in human participants under predefined protocols. They are organized into phases: early-phase studies assess safety, dosing, …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 14× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2576-9359 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Clinical trials are prospective research studies that evaluate the safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of medical interventions—drugs, biologics, devices, procedures, and behavioral therapies—in human participants under predefined protocols. They are organized into phases: early-phase studies assess safety, dosing, and pharmacology, while later-phase trials test efficacy against comparators in larger populations and post-marketing studies monitor long-term outcomes. Methodological rigor rests on randomization to reduce selection bias, blinding of participants and investigators to limit performance and assessment bias, control or comparator groups, and prospectively defined endpoints, with meta-analysis used to synthesize results across trials. Ethical oversight, informed consent, and systematic adverse-event monitoring are integral, and trial evidence underpins regulatory approval and the translation of laboratory findings into practice. In transplantation and related fields, controlled studies inform immunosuppressive, gene, and cell-based therapies. Research relevant to this area examines the early use of blinding in therapeutic neurological research, the rationale for clinical testing of new drugs, treatments, and devices before market entry, meta-analysis of targeted antibody therapy, systematic reviews of dietary interventions, vaccine development, and cell-therapy approaches under clinical evaluation. This peer-reviewed literature reflects the design principles, evidentiary standards, and translational role of clinical trials within the broader study of therapeutic development and Organ Transplantation.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 14 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Clinical Trials, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Organ Transplantation (ISSN 2576-9359).

Journal editorial board
Francesca Diomede · Italy Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti · United Kingdom Karolina Golab · United States

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