Australian clinical-trials intelligence
Every clinical trial in Australia, in one view
A national intelligence platform over the whole field: every Australian clinical trial with at least one state-based site, triangulated across four sources. Start here for the national picture, then explore and cross-filter all 22,006 trials — or drop into the NSW governance lens below.
Trial volume by year
Registrations 2016–2026 · interventional vs observationalThis timeline plots 17,660 trials by registration year; 4,346 of the 22,006 total were registered before 2016 or carry no registration year and are not shown here.
Where trials run, by state
Reach per state · NSW highlighted22,006 distinct trials. A trial is counted in every state it runs in, and 8,428 run in 2+ states, so these bars overlap and intentionally sum to more than 22,006 — this is each state's reach, not a split of the total.
National phase pipeline
All 22,006 Australian trials · normalised registry phase“Not applicable” is a real registry phase, not missing data: non-drug interventions (behavioural, device, surgical, dietary, procedural) and observational studies have no clinical-trial phase — and Australia runs a large volume of these. Drug-trial phases 1–4 are shown above.
Source coverage
Trials carrying each source · a trial can appear in severalExplore — every Australian trial
Slice the whole national field
One shared filter over all 22,006 trials. Pick states, phases, registries, sponsors or a therapeutic area — or just search a title — and every chart, count and table row below recomposes live. A trial is counted in each state it runs in, so the state bars double-count multi-state trials. NSW is just one of eight quick filters.
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Where trials run, by state
Click a bar to filter · reach per state (a trial counts in each state it runs in)Multi-state trials appear in each of their states, so these bars overlap and sum to more than the distinct total above — this measures each state's reach.
Volume by year
Registrations 2016–2026 · live area over the filtered setPlotted by registration year (2016–2026). Trials registered before 2016 or with no year — 4,346 at zero filters — are counted in the headline total above but not on this timeline.
Phase
Click to filter · “Not applicable” = non-drug / observationalRecruitment status
Click to filterSponsor class
Click to filter · who runs the trialSource / registry
Click to filter · a trial can carry severalTherapeutic area
Click to filter · top areas across the filtered setNo trials match the current filters.
Research intelligence — the analytical heart
Who runs Australian trials, where, with whom
Beyond counts: the institutions and sponsors that actually move the national field, and the collaboration ties between research sites. Entity-resolved across all 22,006 trials — explore the sponsor and institution leaderboards, drill into a dossier, trace the connected ecosystem in the site collaboration network, or deep-dive a therapeutic area.
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Four entity-level bundles (~230 KB) — sponsors, institutions, the collaboration network and therapeutic areas — fetched once, on demand.
Sponsor leaderboard
Top 60 sponsors by trial count across the national field, entity-resolved and coloured by class. Select a sponsor to open its analyst dossier.
Where research runs — the powerhouse sites
The 120 highest-volume Australian research sites, entity-resolved to physical facilities. Filter by state or sector; select a site for its area & phase mix, the sponsors running trials there, and the trials it conducts (each opens its dossier).
No sites match these filters.
The site collaboration network
The 90 highest-volume Australian research institutions, drawn together by the trials they share. Each edge means two institutions co-host trials; thicker, brighter edges mean more shared trials (up to 230). Nodes are sized by trial volume. Hover to trace an institution's collaborators; select a node for its dossier. Sites are entity-resolved to physical facilities, so each node is one institution. The leaderboards above are the keyboard-navigable equivalent of this graph.
Therapeutic-area deep-dive
Pick an area to see its 2016–2026 trajectory, phase mix, state spread, and the sponsors and sites that drive it. The 28 areas partition all 22,006 trials.
Investigators — who leads the trials
Named principal investigators, credential-normalised and variant-merged, ranked by trials led. Filter by state or search a name; select one for their sites, therapeutic areas and the trials they lead (each opens its dossier).
No investigators match these filters.
Trends & momentum — where the field is heading
The shape of a decade of Australian research
The national field is not static — some areas are surging, others fading, and the pandemic bent the whole curve. This layer reads the 2016–2026 trajectory of all 22,006 trials: momentum by therapeutic area, the COVID-era structural shift, the live recruiting pipeline, and which sponsors are gaining or losing ground. (2026 is in progress, so it sits on every timeline but is held out of the growth maths.)
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One 40 KB bundle — momentum, era shift, the live pipeline and sponsor trends — fetched once, on demand.
Area momentum — recent vs prior
Growth of 2023–25 vs 2020–22 · sparkline = 2016–26 trajectoryEach bar is an area's change in registrations, recent three complete years (2023–25) vs the prior three (2020–22), sorted most-rising to most-declining. Areas under 40 trials across both windows are held out as noise.
The COVID-era shift
Share of activity: pre-COVID (2016–19) → post-COVID (2023–25)Each area's share of all dated trials, before the pandemic vs after. The marker travels right if the area grew as a share of the national field, left if it shrank. Top 12 by current share.
By therapeutic area
Top areas in the current pipelineBy phase
Maturity of the open pipelineBy recruitment status
How "current" splitsBy state
Counted per state · multi-state trials in eachComposition over time
Trials by registration year, 2016–2026 (2026 partial). Each band is a phase (or study type); the stack height is all dated trials registered that year.
Sponsor momentum
Top 30 by volume · click a column header to sortSponsor × therapeutic-area concentration
Top 15 sponsors × top 12 areas · cell = trials · hover for detailWhere the trials actually run
The footprint, mapped
Three lenses on the same geography. Switch between the national distribution, NSW's Local Health Districts, and every mappable research facility — sized by trial volume and coloured by sector.
Australian trials by state (counted per state)
Where every trial is recorded
Four systems, one register
Every Australian trial in the register is triangulated across up to four systems — the two public registries (ANZCTR, ClinicalTrials.gov) and NSW Health's governance records (CTMS, REGIS). This shows how many distinct trials each system holds and exactly where they overlap — the de-duplicated truth behind the register. CTMS & REGIS are NSW-only by nature, so their sets are small and NSW-bound.
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Source intersections
Every combination, largest first · a single-source bar = trials unique to that systemA lens within the platform
The NSW governance lens
National data answers what is running. This lens asks a sharper question of one jurisdiction: of the trials with a NSW site, which ones does NSW Health actually govern — and which sit outside its oversight line entirely? The story, the provenance and the NSW-scoped cross-filter all live below.
The NSW governance blind spot
The blind spot in clinical-trial governance
Within its governance line, NSW Health sees the trials run across its own public facilities. Beyond that line sits a second research economy — commercial, academic and unclassified sites — that the same oversight never touches.
Where the evidence lives
Three systems, one truth—unevenly shared
Every NSW trial leaves a trace in at least one of three systems: the two public registries — ANZCTR and ClinicalTrials.gov — and NSW Health's own governance records (CTMS & REGIS). Where they overlap, a trial is cross-validated. Where they don't, something is invisible to someone. Full NSW universe — 9,626 trials, all statuses and study types.
Public-sector LHD trials recorded in NSW governance systems that were never registered in either public registry. Invisible to anyone reading the registries.
Registered with ANZCTR and/or ClinicalTrials.gov, with a NSW site, yet absent from NSW Health's governance records — the registry-side blind spot.
Recorded in NSW governance and at least one public registry — the reconciled core where both views agree.
Tip: click a registry-only region (ANZCTR-only or ClinicalTrials.gov-only) to filter the register below. The register holds the 3,189 current-interventional trials — a subset of this 9,626-trial universe — so the filtered count is smaller than the region's figure here.
NSW lens · slice the cohort
The anatomy of the activity
This cross-filter is scoped to the NSW governance cohort — the 3,189 current interventional trials with a NSW site, the set where governance status is known. (For the all-Australia cross-filter over every 22,006 trials, use Explore above.) Click any bar — or a sector in the map legend — and every figure, chart, marker and row recomposes live.
Therapeutic area
Click a bar to filter · Cancer dominates the cohortPhase
Normalised registry phaseRecruitment status
Live enrolment stateSponsor class
Who runs the trialRegistry source
The live triangulation · gold = cross-validatedFull cohort — not affected by the filters above
These two views are measured per site and per state, not per trial, so a single trial can land in several districts and states at once. They cannot be cross-filtered without double-counting — they stay fixed as full-cohort context.
Local Health District
NSW Health internal footprint · current trials per LHDNSW in national context
Current interventional trials by stateNSW lens · down to the row
The NSW trial register
Every trial in the filtered NSW cohort, one row each. Brush any chart above or the map legend and this table follows. Sort any column, page through the set, or export exactly what you're looking at as a CSV. (The full national register of all 22,006 trials lives in Explore.)
No trials match the current filters.