Autism Drug Trial Tracker

Explore hundreds of clinical trials with our interactive tool.

By Niko McCarty

12 January 2022 | 8 min read

https://doi.org/10.53053/KTUF7187 Cite this article (1)

The Autism Drug Trial Tracker compiles data on hundreds of clinical trials for autism and related conditions. See the User Guide for tips on using the tool and our introduction article for more information about how we filtered the data.

With additional reporting by Anna Goshua, Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky and Jonathan Moens.

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Spectrum, An interactive tool to explore clinical trial data, Autism, Clinical trials, Data visualizations, Spectrum’s Autism Drug Trial Tracker, Treatments

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