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Clinical trials and research at University of California at Davis
As of November 12, 2026, Find a Trial lists 1,103 NIH-funded research projects at this institution, with $649.1 million in listed awards. Every study is explained in plain English. Data from ClinicalTrials.gov and NIH RePORTER, updated November 12, 2026.
- 1103NIH research projects
NIH-funded research (newest 40 of 1103)
Early-stage science funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Most of these projects don't enroll patients, but they show what is being worked on.
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UC Davis IGA Innovation Center
A research center at UC Davis will study gene-edited livestock to improve animal health, safety, and policy through sharing genetic data and findings about genome edits in cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.
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Administrative Core of an equitable breast cancer screening program
A national program headed from UC Davis is coordinating several research efforts to improve how breast cancer screening is done in community settings.
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The role of novelty and surprise in learning for people with Alzheimer’s disease
A study explores how surprising events affect memory and learning in people related to Alzheimer’s disease, using everyday tasks to see how the brain remembers new information.
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Understanding how distraction affects students and how to measure it better
This grant studies why distracted students, including those with ADHD, struggle in real-life learning and tests a clearer way to measure distraction in everyday settings.
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California Partnership for Personalized Nutrition
A California clinical center is testing personalized dietary approaches to improve blood sugar and health for adults with diabetes by using big data and AI to tailor meals.
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Advancing gastric cancer care for Latinos through patient-derived tumor models
Aimed at Latinos with gastric cancer, this project uses patient-derived tumor models to study how cancer biology and treatments work in real tumors.
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Latin American Center for Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance and Readiness
A regional collaboration in Peru and neighboring countries aims to strengthen early warning and monitoring for viruses that could jump from animals to people, helping communities prepare for outbreaks.
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Center in Latin America to monitor emerging infectious diseases
A U01 grant supporting a collaboration between Peruvian and U.S. researchers to improve early detection and surveillance of regionally relevant viruses that could affect people, animals, and crops in Peru and neighboring areas.
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Supplemental idea to study how motors, the cytoskeleton, and ribosomes move and work together
This grant explores how cells build proteins and move cargo along the skeleton inside muscle and other tissues, which could shed light on heart, aging, and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Patient and Family Reactions to biomarker-informed ADRD diagnoses
This study asks how patients with Alzheimer’s disease and their families feel about diagnoses that include biomarker information.
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3D downfield brain MR spectroscopy imaging for glioma research
Researchers will develop advanced 3D downfield MR spectroscopy imaging and open-source analysis tools to study brain tumors in adults, starting with glioma patients and healthy volunteers.
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A national effort to speed approval of medicines for sheep and goats
A small, focused project in veterinary science seeks to make it easier and faster to bring safe medicines to sheep and goats.
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How spouses together may slow early Alzheimer’s progression
A study following married couples where one person has early Alzheimer’s to see if closer, positive spousal connection and social support can slow disease progression.
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Housing policies as a lever to reduce youth violence across neighborhoods
A large study will look at whether neighborhood housing policies can reduce violence among youth by improving living conditions in disadvantaged areas.
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Understanding how language models and topology predict RNA:DNA R-loop formation in breast cancer biology
Researchers will build models that combine AI language models with topology ideas to predict how R-loops form and behave in breast cancer-relevant genetic sequences.
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Advanced, personalized breast cancer screening using AI and imaging in community care
A multicenter program is testing how AI-enhanced risk models and imaging can personalize breast cancer screening for women in everyday clinical settings.
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Latin America Breast Cancer Genetics and Risk Modeling
A large study of diverse Latin American women aims to improve how we predict breast cancer risk using genetic information.
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Latin America breast cancer genetics study to improve risk predictions
A large study of diverse Hispanic/Latina and Latin American women aims to improve how well we predict breast cancer risk using genetic information.
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Latin America-focused breast cancer genetics to improve risk prediction
A study to understand how genetics affect breast cancer risk in Hispanic/Latina and related populations and improve a risk-prediction tool for these groups.
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Latin America-focused breast cancer genetic risk and prediction study
A US university-led study will analyze genetic risk factors for breast cancer in Hispanic/Latina and Latin American women to improve risk prediction models.
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Latin America-focused breast cancer genetics to improve risk prediction
A study at UC Davis is building a large, diverse dataset to improve how we predict breast cancer risk for Hispanic/Latina and other Latin American populations.
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HFpEF: a diverse, real-world group to understand heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
A diverse group of people with HFpEF in California is being enrolled to learn more about the condition through detailed medical analyses.
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Helping T-cells fight HIV by changing metabolism
This project looks at whether changing immune cell metabolism can help people with HIV develop vaccine-driven T-cell responses that keep the virus controlled after stopping treatment.
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HIV data and analysis hub
This project builds a secure online library and analysis service to help researchers link HIV vaccine and clinical data so they can learn how vaccines affect T-cell responses and viral control in people with HIV.
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Using IR Biotyper to better classify pathogens from livestock and small animal patients
A veterinary research project will test how IR Biotyper technology can help categorize bacteria from farm animals and pets, to support diagnosis and infection control.
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Calcium-Driven Fibroblast Changes in the Atria Leading to Fibrosis and Arrhythmia
This project looks at how calcium balance inside heart cells and their supporting fibroblasts may drive scar formation in the atria, which can promote atrial fibrillation.
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Fibro-adipogenic progenitors and scar tissue in skeletal muscle fibrosis
A study at UC Davis explores how scar-forming cells and the muscle’s surroundings affect fibrosis and how this could impact future therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other muscle diseases.
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MIND Institute IDDRC at UC Davis helps uncover autism and developmental disabilities
A center grant supports researchers at UC Davis to study autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities and to develop better prevention and treatment approaches.
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Healthy aging in Black adults and its links to dementia risk
This grant follows a large group of Black adults to understand how aging, brain health, and life experiences influence Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
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HER2 in breast cancer among diverse communities
This project looks at genetic and molecular factors linked to HER2-positive breast cancer in women from Hispanic/Latina, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Indigenous American, African, and other diverse backgrounds.
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Center of Excellence to prevent vector-borne diseases in the Pacific Southwest
A collaborative program across several universities aims to reduce tick- and mosquito-borne illnesses by studying and sharing best practices with public health partners.
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How female eggs throw away most chromosomes during meiosis
A scientist at UC Davis is studying why only a quarter of chromosomes go into the egg during female reproductive cell division and how errors in this process can cause miscarriage or birth defects.
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How patients and families respond to Alzheimer's biomarker-informed diagnoses
This project follows people getting Alzheimer’s biomarker results and their close family members to track how the information affects feelings and decisions over six months.
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Early-life nutritional supplements and adolescent brain and behavior health in Ghana
This project follows thousands of Ghanaian youths to understand how nutrition in infancy and pregnancy affects brain development, hormones, behavior, and growth during adolescence.
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D-PDTC: Diversity patient-derived cancer models to guide precision therapy
A multi-center effort to create and study 120 diverse patient-derived tumor models to test approved and experimental cancer drugs.
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Drug that blocks tumor-made male hormones and the androgen receptor for advanced prostate cancer
A new medicine aims to block both the androgen receptor and the tumor’s own production of male hormones to help men with advanced, treatment‑resistant prostate cancer.
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AI-powered nanosensor to find cancer in saliva and blood
This project uses a small AI-powered sensor to read molecules in saliva or blood to spot head and neck cancer early.
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Combined nanoparticle chemotherapy and immunotherapy for advanced pancreatic cancer
This project uses a new nanoparticle-form chemotherapy together with an immune‑boosting antibody to try to shrink tumors in people with advanced pancreatic cancer.
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Informatics and Coordination Center for the Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Centers
A national informatics and service center helps researchers access and manage a large collection of mutant mouse resources to advance biomedical discoveries.
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How air pollution may drive racial and ethnic differences in Alzheimer's and related dementias
This project looks at whether higher air pollution exposure helps explain why Mexican American older adults have more Alzheimer's and related dementias than non-Hispanic White older adults.
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