Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven, often shortened to UZ Leuven, is an academic hospital in Leuven, Belgium, associated with the university KU Leuven. It consists of five campuses as of 2016; Gasthuisberg, Lubbeek, Pellenberg, Sint-Pieter and Sint-Rafaël. The hospital has 1,995 beds and over 9,000 employees.

There are 1,995 beds in UZ Leuven.

During the past decade, UZ Leuven conducted 1191 clinical trials. In the 10-year time frame, 1191 clinical trials started and 362 clinical trials were completed, i.e. on average, 30.4% percent of trials that started reached the finish line to date. In the past 5 years, 554 clinical trials started and 253 clinical trials were completed. i.e. 45.7% of trials that started reached the finish line.

Out of the total clinical trials conducted in "UZ Leuven" #1 sponsor was "Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven" with 478 trials, followed by "European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC" with 96 trials sponsored, "Hoffmann-La Roche" with 92 trials sponsored, "KU Leuven" with 83 trials sponsored and "Boehringer Ingelheim" with 83 trials sponsored. Other sponsors include 1106 different institutions and companies that sponsored additional 466 trials in total.

In terms of collaborators to trials, out of the total clinical trials conducted in "UZ Leuven" #1 collaborator was "KU Leuven" with 61 trials as a collaborator, "Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven" with 50 trials as a collaborator, "University Hospital, Antwerp" with 22 trials as a collaborator, "AZ Sint-Jan AV" with 15 trials as a collaborator and "AstraZeneca" with 14 trials as a collaborator. Other collaborators include 1228 different institutions and companies that were collaborators in the rest 751 trials.

According to Clinical.Site data, the most researched conditions in "UZ Leuven" are "Breast Cancer" (48 trials), "Ovarian Cancer" (37 trials), "Ulcerative Colitis" (35 trials), "Prostate Cancer" (30 trials) and "Multiple Myeloma" (29 trials). Many other conditions were trialed in "UZ Leuven" in a lesser frequency.

Most popular intervention types in "UZ Leuven" are "Drug" (1068 trials), "Other" (274 trials), "Procedure" (201 trials), "Device" (198 trials) and "Biological" (109 trials). Other intervention types were less common.

The name of intervention was led by "Placebo" (280 trials), "radiation therapy" (29 trials), "Paclitaxel" (26 trials), "Atezolizumab" (23 trials) and "Carboplatin" (23 trials). Other intervention names were less common.

The vast majority of trials in "UZ Leuven" are 1640 trials for "All" genders, 189 trials for "Female" genders and 79 trials for "Male" genders.

Currently, there are 568 active trials in "UZ Leuven". 13 are not yet recruiting, 346 are recruiting, 193 are Active, not recruiting, and 16 are Enrolling by invitation. In total, there were 928 completed trials in UZ Leuven, 6 suspended trials, and 165 terminated clinical trials to date.

Out of the total trials that were conducted in UZ Leuven, 150 "Phase 1" clinical trials were conducted, 449 "Phase 2" clinical trials and 547 "Phase 3" clinical trials were conducted as well. "Phase 4" trials included 104 trials, and there were also 344 trials that are defined as “Not Applicable".

UZ Leuven has several departments that took part in Clinical trials: "University Hospitals Leuven, department of Neurology" - 15 trials, "UZ Gasthuisberg Leuven Nierziekten" - 8 trials, "Center for Clinical Pharmacology" - 7 trials, "UZ Leuven ENT" - 6 trials, "Department of Ophthalmology, UZLeuven" - 5 trials, "UZ Leuven - KU Leuven, Department of Rheumatology (KU LEUVEN)" - 5 trials, "Department of Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospitals Leuven" - 5 trials, "University Hospitals Leuven - Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology" - 4 trials, "UZ Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg - Pneumologie" - 4 trials, "Department of intensive care medicine, university hospitals Leuven" - 4 trials, "UZ Leuven Campus Gasthuisberg Digestieve Oncologie" - 3 trials, "UZ Leuven Campus Gasthuisberg Dept. of General Medical" - 2 trials, "University Hospital Leuven - Hematology" - 2 trials, "University Hospitals Leuven Kinderhemato-oncologie" - 2 trials, "University Hospital Gasthuisberg / Interne Geneeskunde - I.G. Pneumologie" - 2 trials, "University Hospitals Leuven, Neuromuscular Reference Centre, Child Neurology" - 2 trials