The Al-Azhar University is a public university in Cairo, Egypt. Associated with Al-Azhar Mosque in Islamic Cairo, it is Egypt's oldest degree-granting university – and the world's second oldest degree granting university – and is renowned as the most prestigious university for Islamic learning.

During the past decade, Al-Azhar university conducted 42 clinical trials. In the 10-year time frame, 42 clinical trials started and 0 clinical trials were completed, i.e. on average, 0% percent of trials that started reached the finish line to date. In the past 5 years, 30 clinical trials started and 0 clinical trials were completed. i.e. 0% of trials that started reached the finish line.

Out of the total clinical trials conducted in "Al-Azhar university" #1 sponsor was "Al-Azhar University" with 33 trials, followed by "Cairo University" with 2 trials sponsored, "ClinAmygate" with 2 trials sponsored, "Faculty of Dental Medicine for Girls" with 2 trials sponsored and "Ahmed Akram Elawady" with 2 trials sponsored. Other sponsors include 1 different institutions and companies that sponsored additional 11 trials in total.

In terms of collaborators to trials, out of the total clinical trials conducted in "Al-Azhar university" #1 collaborator was "Al-Azhar University" with 3 trials as a collaborator, "Helwan University" with 2 trials as a collaborator, "National Liver Institute, Egypt" with 2 trials as a collaborator, "Ain Shams University" with 1 trials as a collaborator and "Beni-Suef University" with 1 trials as a collaborator. Other collaborators include -3 different institutions and companies that were collaborators in the rest 7 trials.

According to Clinical.Site data, the most researched conditions in "Al-Azhar university" are "COVID-19" (3 trials), "Angle Class II, Division 1" (2 trials), "Bimaxillary Protrusion" (2 trials), "Class II Division 1 Malocclusion" (2 trials) and "Cross Bite" (2 trials). Many other conditions were trialed in "Al-Azhar university" in a lesser frequency.

Most popular intervention types in "Al-Azhar university" are "Other" (13 trials), "Device" (11 trials), "Biological" (7 trials), "Drug" (7 trials) and "Procedure" (5 trials). Other intervention types were less common.

The name of intervention was led by "Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation" (2 trials), "Antagonist" (1 trials), "Autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) eye drops" (1 trials), "Biomimetic remineralizing agent" (1 trials) and "Bonded Rapid Maxillary Expansion and low-Level Laser therapy" (1 trials). Other intervention names were less common.

The vast majority of trials in "Al-Azhar university" are 37 trials for "All" genders and 9 trials for "Female" genders.

Currently, there are 16 active trials in "Al-Azhar university". 1 are not yet recruiting, 4 are recruiting, 4 are Active, not recruiting, and 7 are Enrolling by invitation. In total, there were 26 completed trials in Al-Azhar university, undefined suspended trials, and undefined terminated clinical trials to date.

Out of the total trials that were conducted in Al-Azhar university, 4 "Phase 1" clinical trials were conducted, 4 "Phase 2" clinical trials and 3 "Phase 3" clinical trials were conducted as well. "Phase 4" trials included 5 trials, and there were also 26 trials that are defined as “Not Applicable".

Al-Azhar university has several departments that took part in Clinical trials: "Al-Azhar Faculty of medicine, Rheumatology Department" - 3 trials, "Faculty of dental medicine Al-Azhar University (Assiut branch)" - 2 trials