Current ACRC Clinical Trials
Interested in participating in a trial?
There are several Airways Clinical Research Centers (ACRC) clinical trials currently in progress and at various stages of completion across the United States. If you live with COPD or asthma, or care for someone who does, see what trials are available close to your home.
Trials Currently Recruiting Participants
The ACRC network is studying whether having regular video calls with a pharmacist using a smart phone or computer will help adolescents and young adults with asthma to regularly take their prescribed inhaled medications and have fewer asthma symptoms.
Currently in the recruiting phase.
Co-funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Trials In Analysis Phase
Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Lung Association (ALA)
TRIM will look at how well tolerated roflumilast is and if roflumilast improves asthma control. Results of ABBS and TRIM will be used to develop a full-scale trial using new drugs or other types of interventions that are helpful for treating asthma in this population.
Currently in the recruiting phase. If you would like to participate in this trial, please follow the link below, and find a participating center near you.
The ACRC network is studying if parents of young children will complete surveys about their child’s breathing problems sent to them by a text message to their smart phone or by email.
Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Lung Association (ALA)
Evaluates asthma symptoms and its impact on quality of life for people poorly controlled asthma with an elevated BMI.
Co-funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Do mobile and internet technology make clinical trials more convenient and cost effective?
Funded by the American Lung Association
Examines the relationship between anxiety, health status and prognosis, to inform appropriate treatment strategies.
Funded by the American Lung Association
Evaluates measurements of cough symptoms and the impact of cough on quality of life for people with chronic cough.
Funded by the American Lung Association
ZICO will look at how well tolerated and how safe taking zinc to treat chronic cough is. Results of COCO and ZICO will be used to develop a full-scale trial to test treating chronic cough with zinc acetate.
Resources

About the Airways Clinical Trials Research Centers [video]
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ACRC Trial Recruitment Form
Learn morePage Last Updated: January 30, 2020