Clinical development
The raw CF-tagged extract is not the pipeline.
ClinicalTrials.gov is a public list of studies. Searching “cystic fibrosis” also pulls in a different lung disease and other noise. Rankings on this site never use that unfiltered list.
1,209
Studies tagged cystic fibrosis
The messy search result. Do not rank from this.
98
Likely a different lung disease
NCFB heuristic: a title/summary guess, not a diagnosis.
71
Looked at by a person
Only these trial records received a manual CF vs not overlay.
54
Programs on the next page
Reviewed CF assets. Grain is program, not trial listing.
When studies started
Each row is a year. The number on the right is the total. Starts peaked around 2015. The last bar is not “the field died” — 2026 is incomplete.
2008
61
2009
56
2010
55
2011
39
2012
53
2013
49
2014
56
2015
76
2016
73
2017
66
2018
63
2019
64
2020
57
2021
59
2022
48
2023
44
2024
47
2025
35
2026
30
Teal: CF-like. Gray: likely NCFB noise.