Clinical Trials Directory

We created the Duke Clinical Research Volunteer Registry for people who would like to join clinical research studies. We will use this registry to contact you about available studies. For more information or to sign up, visit us at: https://redcap.duke.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=X4T7JKHPX4

The Alzheimer's Disease Discoveries in Medicine (ADD ME) project is a list of adults who want to help with research at the Duke/UNC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. This list helps connect people who are ready to join studies with researchers who are learning what causes Alzheimer's disease and how to keep the brain healthy.

We are doing this study to look at components of the blood to see if there are features that distinguish people with dystonia from people without dystonia. Identifying "biomarkers" in the blood that are associated with dystonia is greatly needed to help more accurately diagnosis dystonia and to identify subsets of dystonias that may have shared mechanisms. Being able to group individuals by underlying mechanisms can guide people with dystonia to the most appropriate future treatments that act specifically to correct one cause or another.

Taking part in this study involves one visit that lasts about thirty minutes. During the visit, participants will answer a short survey about their health and hearing. They will also give a small saliva sample and have a gentle swab placed in the nose. These steps do not hurt. The visit can be done in person at a clinic or another location, or sometimes from home if the person lives nearby. There is no cost to take part, and there is no payment for joining the study.

The Endometrial Cancer Molecularly Targeted Therapy Consortium is a multi-institutional alliance that is developing a cancer data and tissue repository. The information in this repository will be used to better understand tumor alterations and cancer biomarkers that can help us develop new therapies and potentially improve survival outcomes for women with endometrial cancer.

This study is about helping astronauts stay safe during moonwalks. When astronauts go to the moon, they wear special suits with lower air pressure, which can cause small bubbles to form in the body. These bubbles can cause a problem called decompression sickness, which may lead to pain or weakness. To help prevent this, astronauts breathe pure oxygen before their moonwalk. In this study, people will breathe oxygen for about one hour while resting or doing different levels of exercise. After that, they will enter a special room that lowers air pressure to feel like being in a spacesuit. While inside, they will do light exercises and have ultrasound tests to look for bubbles in the body. This part lasts about six hours. The goal is to learn how well oxygen breathing and activity help prevent decompression sickness.

We are doing this study to learn more about the cause of cardiac (heart) disease or sudden unexplained death, which is something that can run in families. Some conditions that we are looking at are:

• Cardiomyopathies (a disease of the heart muscle that makes it harder for your heart to pump blood to the rest of your body) like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, or arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (also called right ventricular cardiomyopathy)
• Arrhythmia syndromes (a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat, either too slow or too fast) like long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, or short QT syndrome
• Sudden cardiac arrest or unexplained sudden death (heart stops suddenly) in someone less than 50 years of age, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
• Individuals with genetic mutations (variants) in genes that can lead to cardiac disease which include (LMNA, ATP1A3, and TAX1BP3)

If you take part in this study, you will take a study supplement or placebo for 12 weeks and attend study visits that include breathing tests, lung function tests, strength and walking tests, exercise testing, blood draws, and questionnaires about your physical activity and diet.