The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College making it the oldest higher education institute in South Africa.

During the past decade, University of Cape Town conducted 34 clinical trials. In the 10-year time frame, 34 clinical trials started and 7 clinical trials were completed, i.e. on average, 20.6% percent of trials that started reached the finish line to date. In the past 5 years, 19 clinical trials started and 4 clinical trials were completed. i.e. 21.1% of trials that started reached the finish line.

Out of the total clinical trials conducted in "University of Cape Town" #1 sponsor was "University of Cape Town" with 18 trials, followed by "Duke University" with 5 trials sponsored, "University of Liverpool" with 3 trials sponsored, "University of Miami" with 3 trials sponsored and "Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc." with 3 trials sponsored. Other sponsors include 31 different institutions and companies that sponsored additional 35 trials in total.

In terms of collaborators to trials, out of the total clinical trials conducted in "University of Cape Town" #1 collaborator was "University of Cape Town" with 25 trials as a collaborator, "Medical Research Council, South Africa" with 5 trials as a collaborator, "National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)" with 5 trials as a collaborator, "National Institutes of Health (NIH)" with 5 trials as a collaborator and "Radboud University Medical Center" with 5 trials as a collaborator. Other collaborators include 130 different institutions and companies that were collaborators in the rest 123 trials.

According to Clinical.Site data, the most researched conditions in "University of Cape Town" are "Tuberculosis" (12 trials), "HIV Infections" (6 trials), "HIV" (4 trials), "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" (2 trials) and "Autism Spectrum Disorder" (2 trials). Many other conditions were trialed in "University of Cape Town" in a lesser frequency.

Most popular intervention types in "University of Cape Town" are "Drug" (17 trials), "Behavioral" (13 trials), "Other" (8 trials), "Procedure" (8 trials) and "Biological" (6 trials). Other intervention types were less common.

The name of intervention was led by "Placebo" (5 trials), "Smear microscopy" (3 trials), "MVA 85A" (2 trials), "VGX-3100" (2 trials) and "AEGR-733" (1 trials). Other intervention names were less common.

The vast majority of trials in "University of Cape Town" are 55 trials for "All" genders and 12 trials for "Female" genders.

Currently, there are 17 active trials in "University of Cape Town". 2 are not yet recruiting, 8 are recruiting, 6 are Active, not recruiting, and 1 are Enrolling by invitation. In total, there were 35 completed trials in University of Cape Town, 1 suspended trials, and 7 terminated clinical trials to date.

Out of the total trials that were conducted in University of Cape Town, 3 "Phase 1" clinical trials were conducted, 8 "Phase 2" clinical trials and 16 "Phase 3" clinical trials were conducted as well. "Phase 4" trials included 0 trials, and there were also 25 trials that are defined as “Not Applicable".

University of Cape Town has several departments that took part in Clinical trials: "Division of Lipidology, Department of Medicine University of Cape Town" - 3 trials, "Groote Schuur Hospital ( Uni of Capetown ); Oncology Dept" - 3 trials, "Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital; Pediatric Nephrology" - 2 trials