Boston, Massachusetts Clinical Trials

Concurrent Laparoscopic Hysterectomy and Weight Loss Surgery in Obese Patients With Endometrial Carcinoma or Endometrial Intraepithelial Neoplasia

To assess the feasibility of an expedited referral process for the obese endometrial cancer or EIN patient from her gynecologic oncologist to the Brigham Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (CMBS) in order to undergo concurrent weight loss surgery and hysterectomy within 8 weeks of first appointment with a gynecologic …

V Viviane Nasr, MD

Lung Recruitment Maneuver as a Potential Predictor of Fluid Responsiveness in Mechanically Ventilated Pediatric Patients

In this research study we want to learn more about using non-invasive tools as a way to predict whether or not a child under general anesthesia will require and respond to fluid administration. It is important for an anesthesiologist to know if a child would respond to fluid administration so …

E Eric Abston, MD

Evaluation of PET Probe [68Ga]CBP8 in the Detection of Radiation Induced Tissue Injury

The goal of this study is to investigate the efficacy of \[68Ga\]CBP8 to detect collagen deposition in radiation induced tissue injury.

J Jessica A Gerber

Biomarker Profiling in Individuals at Risk for Prion Disease

We are doing this research to identify biomarkers in individuals who are at-risk for familial prion disease. We hope to use these biomarkers to predict timing of disease onset in pre-symptomatic individuals and to guide the direction of future clinical trials.

L Lisa Lichtenegger

RAPA-501 Therapy for ALS

RAPA-501-ALS is a phase 2/3 expansion cohort study of RAPA-501 autologous hybrid TREG/Th2 cells in patients living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (pwALS).

B Bridget Neja

RESET-Myositis: An Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of CABA-201 in Subjects With Active Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy or Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy

RESET-Myositis: Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of CABA-201 in Subjects with Active Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy or Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy

M Michelle Gurvitz, MD

The Relationship Between Brain MRI Phenotypes, Genes and Cognitive Outcome in CHD Adults

The main purpose of this proposal is to perform novel MRI analyses to determine the brain organizational changes associated with altered executive function and the modulating role of variants in neuroresilience and hypoxia response genes in adults with d-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA).

K Kristy Cuthbert, PhD

Neural Markers of Treatment Mechanisms and Prediction of Treatment Outcomes in Social Anxiety

The purpose of this clinical trial is to answer the question: can the investigators predict which adults with social anxiety disorder (SAD) will successfully respond to treatment? To answer this question, the investigators plan to recruit 190 adult participants who experience extreme forms of social anxiety to undergo brain imaging …

M Marisa Stahl, MD, MSCS

Immune Responses to Gluten

This is a study of immune responses after eating gluten powder in people with celiac disease and healthy controls.

C Charu Madhwani Jain, MD, MPH

Detoxification of the Liver In PSC (Dolphin)

This study is a clinical trial being done to investigate the efficacy of drug BRS201 (hydroxocobalamin) as a treatment in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis. Participation in this study will take 8 weeks long and the study is structured as a cross-over study in which participants will take the study …