Clinical research participants are active partners in medical discovery.

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Patient Registries

Learn more about patient registries and if you should participate in a registry.

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Recruiting for Clinical Trials

See resources for educational awareness about clinical trials and recruitment efforts.

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Healthy Volunteers

Healthy volunteers provide researchers with crucial data because their health information can be used as a comparison.

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Give Hope, Give Blood

The blood you donate at the NIH Blood Bank supports patients at the NIH Clinical Center.

The NIH Clinical Center

The NIH Clinical Center is America’s Research Hospital. It is the nation’s largest hospital devoted entirely to clinical research. The Clinical Center's mission is to provide hope through pioneering clinical research to improve human health. 

Explore the NIH Clinical Center