There are about 13446 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Belgium. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Childhood aggressive gliomas are rare brain tumors with very poor prognosis. Due to the tumor's location and infiltrative nature, surgical removal is not always possible, and even when resection is performed and combined with chemo- and/or radiotherapy, tumor cells frequently persist, eventually giving rise to tumor recurrence. A promising strategy to eradicate persisting tumor cells is vaccination with dendritic cells (DC). DC are immune cells that play an important role in organizing the body's defense against cancer. The goal of DC vaccination is to activate these natural anti-tumor defense mechanisms to delay or prevent tumor progression or recurrence. Previous clinical studies have demonstrated that DC vaccination is well-tolerated, safe and capable of eliciting tumorspecific immunity. A clinical study including 10 pediatric patients (aged ≥ 12 months and < 18 years at the time of signing the informed consent) with brain (stem) tumors is initiated at the Antwerp University Hospital to investigate intradermal vaccination with WT1 mRNA-loaded autologous monocyte-derived DCs, either combined with first-line chemoradiation treatment or administered as adjuvant therapy following previous therapies. The general objective of this phase I/II clinical study is (1) to demonstrate that WT1-targeted DC vaccine production and administration in pediatric patients with HGG and DIPG, either combined with first-line chemoradiation treatment or administered as adjuvant therapy following previous therapies, is feasible and safe, (2) to study vaccine-induced immune responses, (3) to document patients' quality of life and clinical outcome for comparison with current patients' outcome allowing indication of the added value.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of deucravacitinib versus placebo for the treatment of participants with active PsA who are naïve to biologic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs or had previously received TNFα inhibitor treatment.The long term extension period will provide additional long-term safety and efficacy information.
This study is a prospective, observational multicentric study. The study population entails adult patients hospitalized with a high clinical suspicion of COVID-19 and consists of two study arms (SARS-CoV2- vs. SARS-CoV2+).This combined fundamental research project has a dual goal: on the one hand assessing immunological predisposing factors for severe infection and investigating the immunological impact of SARS-CoV2 infection, on the other hand studying viral characteristics. Furthermore, a substudy will examine the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of hydroxychloroquine in patients receiving this antiviral treatment (REVIVE susbstudy). To answer these research questions, samples will be collected from patients with a high clinical suspicion of COVID-19, hospitalized at UZ Gent and 2 participating hospitals in Ghent (AZ Maria Middelares en AZ Jan Palfijn).
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety of long-term therapy of bimekizumab in study participants with moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS)
A feasibility study is to assess the preliminary safety and performance of the Xeltis hemodialysis access (aXess) graft.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of sotatercept (MK-7962, formerly called ACE-011) treatment (plus maximum tolerated background pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) therapy) versus placebo (plus maximum tolerated background PAH therapy) on time to first event of all cause death, lung transplantation, or PAH worsening-related hospitalization of ≥24 hours, in participants with World Health Organization (WHO) functional class (FC) III or FC IV PAH at high risk of mortality.
A prospective, single-arm, multi-center, pre-market, clinical study designed to provide safety and performance data regarding the use of the Adagio Medical VT Cryoablation System in the treatment of ventricular tachycardia.
Acti-SMA is a multi-centric academic study. It aims to monitor the progress of patients with spinal muscular atrophy under treatment with Spinraza° or risdiplam. First, we want to quantify improvement of both ambulant and non-ambulant patients under treatment. A secondary objective would also be to identify suitable accelerometric measurements that are sensitive to change but also well correlated to other clinical scores.
This study will evaluate the efficacy of the RSVPreF3 OA investigational vaccine in preventing Lower Respiratory Tract Disease (LRTD) caused by RSV in adults ≥60 years of age following a single dose of the RSVPreF3 OA vaccine and following annual revaccination doses in Northern Hemisphere (NH) and in Southern Hemisphere (SH). This study will also assess if the vaccine is safe and induces an immune response.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, effectiveness and immune response of the meningococcal combined ABCWY vaccine (GSK4023393A) intended to protect against invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by all 5 meningococcal serogroups. The first time-in-human (FTIH), Phase I part of this study will be conducted in healthy adults in a dose-escalating fashion with 2 formulations of the investigational MenABCWY-2Gen vaccine and will serve as a safety lead-in to the Phase II study. The Phase II part of the study will be conducted in 2 parts: The 'formulation and schedule-finding' part will follow in healthy adolescents and young adults and it is designed to select the vaccine formulation and the schedule to be tested in Phase III. The 'blood sourcing' part will be conducted in healthy adults in order to collect sufficient serum samples for the development of assays to be used in the MenABCWY-2Gen vaccine clinical development program.