Free nonprofit service
Find clinical trials that are actually open to you.
Medical Development Group is a free nonprofit service. We help patients and caregivers in the US and Canada find clinical trials that are genuinely recruiting and responsive, and we explain them in plain language. No cost. No sales. No pressure.
What we do
We built Trial Finder because most people searching for a trial hit the same wall. Public registries list thousands of studies, but many of those listings are out of date, no longer enrolling, or never respond to patient inquiries. People waste precious time contacting trials that were never going to reply.
Trial Finder filters for studies that are not only marked as recruiting, but that our checks show are still active and responsive to patients. We then translate each listing into plain language and point you to the study's own official page on ClinicalTrials.gov, so you can reach out with confidence.
Why responsiveness matters
A trial can be listed as recruiting long after it has stopped accepting patients. Families contact site after site and hear nothing back. We surface the studies that are most likely to actually respond, so your effort goes where it can make a difference.
How it works
A clear, four-step path from your first search to contacting a study with confidence.
Search by your condition and location.
Tell us what you are looking for. No account needed.
See only responsive trials.
We filter out listings that are inactive or unresponsive.
Read it in plain language.
We translate eligibility and study details so you can actually understand them.
Contact the study yourself.
We send you to the official ClinicalTrials.gov listing. You reach out directly, on your own terms.
Free, nonprofit, and built for patients.
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Our service is educational and informational only. We do not provide medical advice, determine eligibility, or enroll anyone in a study. Those decisions are made by you, your doctor, and the study team.