2022 Update: How many clinical trials use cord blood or cord tissue today?
2022 Update: How many clinical trials use cord blood or cord tissue? August 2022 Frances Verter, PhD
Source # Cumulative Trials Advanced Cell Therapy through end of 2021 # Recruiting Trials Any Therapy June 2022 Cord Blood 276 110 Cord Tissue 464 n/a Other Perinatal 151 n/a
From the beginning of advanced cell therapy with cord blood until the end of 2021, 276 cord blood clinical trials have been registered worldwide. We checked the status of these trials in June 2022 and found that 110 cord blood trials, both advanced therapy and traditional transplants, are recruiting at 281 locations. We have updated our portal of recruiting cord blood trials to enable patients and their families to look up these recruiting trials by the diagnosis treated. We have also updated our statistics on advanced cell therapy with cord tissue, as well as other perinatal sources such as the placenta and amniotic membrane. Cumulatively through the end of 2021, there have been 464 trials with cord tissue alone and 151 trials with other perinatal tissues and combinations of perinatal tissues. Annual numbers of trials with cord tissue have grown more than four-fold over the time span from 2015 to 2020. In 2021 there were 30 trials registered for cord blood and 96 for cord tissue. We have not updated our portal of recruiting cord tissue trials because it has simply become too time consuming to check the status of so many trials. To learn more about cord blood banking, visit Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation at https://parentsguidecordblood.org/en/news/2022-update-how-many-clinical-trials-use-cord-blood-or-cord-tissue