{"id": 1103695, "name": "Number of clinical trials by sponsor", "unit": "trials", "createdAt": "2025-08-18T15:51:56.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-08-18T15:51:56.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1918-2031", "datasetId": 7190, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "n_studies_sponsor", "catalogPath": "grapher/health/2025-07-28/clinical_trials/sponsor_per_year#n_studies_sponsor", "descriptionShort": "Annual number of clinical trials globally registered in the [ClinicalTrials.gov](#dod:clinical-trials-gov) database, by sponsor type. ClinicalTrials.gov has four sponsor categories: Trials funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other US federal agencies (e.g., [FDA](#dod:us-fda), industry (e.g., pharmaceutical companies), and other sponsors (e.g., non-US governments, academic institutions, non-profits, and other people or entities).\n", "descriptionFromProducer": "Funder type describes the organization that provides funding or support for a clinical study. This support may include activities related to funding, design, implementation, data analysis, or reporting. Organizations listed as sponsors and collaborators for a study are considered the funders of the study. ClinicalTrials.gov refers to four types of funders:\n\n- U.S. National Institutes of Health\n- Other U.S. Federal agencies (for example, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)\n- Industry (for example: pharmaceutical and device companies)\n- All others (including individuals, universities, and community-based organizations)", "type": "int", "grapherConfigIdETL": "0198bde1-5117-7b25-94a1-cadc125c999f", "datasetName": "Clinical Trials (ClinicalTrials.gov)", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2025-07-28", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "trials", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Medicine & Biotechnology"]}, "descriptionKey": ["This data comes from the [ClinicalTrials.gov](#dod:clinical-trials-gov) database. It only includes [interventional](#dod:interventional-trial) or [observational](#dod:observational-trial) clinical trials that are marked as \"completed\" and have a valid \"completion date\". [Expanded access studies](#dod:expanded-access), which provide access to investigational drugs or devices for patients with serious conditions, are not included in this data.\n", "Registration in the ClinicalTrials.gov database is mandatory for trials in the United States and for treatments that seek FDA approval, but voluntary for other trials conducted in other countries.", "ClinicalTrials.gov has four categories for sponsors, but offers the option to classify as \"Network\", \"Other Governmental Organization\" or \"Individual\" as well. As these are not officially defined categories, but rather subcategories of the \"Other\" category, they are grouped under \"Other\" in this dataset."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1918}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 2025}, {"id": 2031}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 35473, "name": "Other", "code": null}, {"id": 371924, "name": "NIH", "code": null}, {"id": 35496, "name": "Industry", "code": null}, {"id": 371923, "name": "Federal agency", "code": null}, {"id": 36946, "name": "Unknown", "code": null}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 7011, "title": "Clinical Trials (ClinicalTrials.gov)", "description": "ClinicalTrials.gov is a website and online database of clinical research studies and information about their results. The purpose of ClinicalTrials.gov is to provide information about clinical research studies to the public, researchers, and health care professionals.", "producer": "ClinicalTrials.gov", "citationFull": "National Library of Medicine (US), National Center for Biotechnology Information, ClinicalTrials.gov. U.S. National Institutes of Health, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ (2025)", "attributionShort": "NIH", "urlMain": "https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/trends-charts", "urlDownload": "https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/api", "dateAccessed": "2025-07-28", "datePublished": "2025", "license": {"url": "https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions", "name": "ClinicalTrials.gov Terms and Conditions"}}]}