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Also known as: Initiative for Vaccine Research, World Health Organization | Per Ashorn | WHO Collaborating Center for Epidemiology and Preventive Dentistry | WHO, GBUI, Geneva, Switserland | WHO Pneumococcal Serology Reference Laboratory Institute of Child Health | WHO Solidarity Trial Plus | World Health Organization | World Health Organization (WHO), R&D Blueprint, Geneva, Switzerland | World Heath Organization
Highest phase reached
Phase 4
First clinical trial
Nov 1, 1993Last known activity
Aug 4, 2025
Timeline
1940s
- Apr 7, 1948
World Health Organization— Founded
Drugs by trial phase (102 distinct, 133 trials)
Phase 4 (26 own, 0 via acquisition)
Phase 3 (33 own, 0 via acquisition)
Phase 2 (20 own, 0 via acquisition)
Phase 1 (7 own, 0 via acquisition)
Other trials (16 own, 0 via acquisition)
Indications
Studied for
- Avitaminosis
- Buruli Ulcer
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Chagas Disease
- Communicable Diseases
- Diarrhea
- Elephantiasis
- Elephantiasis, Filarial
- Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
- Filariasis
- Glaucoma
- Glaucoma, Open-Angle
- Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
- Heart Diseases
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
- Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral
- HIV Infections
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases
- Infarction
- Infections
- Influenza, Human
- Influenza in Birds
- Intestinal Diseases
- Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic
- Intestinal Volvulus
- Kidney Diseases
- Leishmaniasis
- Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
- Leishmaniasis, Visceral
- Lipid Metabolism Disorders
- Malaria
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Malaria, Vivax
- Malnutrition
- Meningitis
- Meningitis, Meningococcal
- Metabolic Diseases
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Myocardial Infarction
- Nematode Infections
- Neonatal Sepsis
- Night Blindness
- Obesity, Abdominal
- Onchocerciasis
- Parasitemia
- Parasitic Diseases
- Pneumonia
- Poliomyelitis
- Pregnancy Complications
- Renal Insufficiency
- Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
- Rickets
- Schistosomiasis
- Schistosomiasis haematobia
- Schistosomiasis mansoni
- Sepsis
- Syphilis
- Toxemia
- Trypanosomiasis
- Trypanosomiasis, African
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
- Virus Diseases
- Vitamin A Deficiency
- Vitamin D Deficiency
- Yaws
Recent trials (50)
- NCT07145736CollaboratorPhase 4Aug 4, 2025
- NCT05173324CollaboratorPhase 3Feb 1, 2023
- NCT05173324OfficialPhase 3Feb 1, 2023
- NCT05173324Study chairPhase 3Feb 1, 2023
- NCT05555303CollaboratorPhase 2Dec 31, 2022
- NCT05460377CollaboratorPhase 4Jul 26, 2022
- NCT05327426CollaboratorPhase 1Apr 1, 2022
- NCT05220280CollaboratorPhase 4Feb 6, 2022
- NCT05273242Study directorPhase 4Dec 6, 2021
- NCT05273242CollaboratorPhase 4Dec 6, 2021
- NCT05066022Overall official - principal investigatorN/AOct 28, 2021
- NCT04420780CollaboratorN/AAug 31, 2021
- NCT04978259CollaboratorPhase 4Jul 24, 2021
- NCT04618523CollaboratorPhase 4Oct 26, 2020
- NCT04693286CollaboratorPhase 2Sep 21, 2020
Details
- Founded
- Geneva, CH Apr 7, 1948
- Last known activity
- Aug 4, 2025