Featured Studies

Research Study #002298-H - Researchers at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute are studying how platelets, small pieces of blood cells, work and change over time in healthy people. Your blood donation can help advance medical research and deepen understanding of human health. 

Researchers are enrolling people with locally advanced or metastatic cancer who are prescribed atezolizumab (alone or with other approved treatments). The study will monitor blood levels to adjust infusion schedules, aiming to see if lower or less frequent doses can be given without reducing effectiveness, over a period of up to 2 years.

Researchers at The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are conducting a study examining inflammation and metabolic dysfunction in menopause. They are looking for both premenopausal and postmenopausal women to participate in the study.

Researchers at NCI are developing a new investigational treatment known as TNhYP218 CAR T cells to target and kill tumor cells in people with solid tumors and with those that have high levels of mesothelin (MSLN) including mesothelioma. The study team collects immune cells (T cells); the T cells are genetically modified to target and kill tumor cells to potentially shrink the tumor.

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.

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.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are studying if low dose CT scans are as effective as regular CT scans to monitor your disease status. Very low-dose scanning uses about 1/30th the amount of radiation as a regular CT scan.

Doctors at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are conducting a study on patients with Clonal Cytopenia of Uncertain Significance (CCUS). Patients with CCUS have low blood counts and a normal bone marrow exam but more advanced genetic testing shows the presence of a genetic mutation that is likely causing the low counts. The study will look at CCUS and try to determine its relationship to blood cancers and heart disease. The study will also try to discover other new organs or diseases it may be linked with.