Core: healthy volunteers
Studies for healthy volunteers recruiting now
These studies say in their official record that they accept healthy volunteers. Many are Phase 1 studies that test how a new medicine is absorbed and tolerated; others recruit healthy people as a comparison group alongside patients.
5,002 recruiting studiesSource: ClinicalTrials.gov, refreshed October 26, 2026How we list studies
More recruiting studies (pay not posted)
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
ARTFL LEFFTDS Longitudinal Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ALLFTD)
Mayo Clinic
- Location
- Birmingham, AL + 22 other US sites
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18+
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Send-In Sample Collection for Comprehensive Analyses of Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses During Acute COVID-19 and Convalescence
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Location
- Rockville, MD
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 0 mo–99
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Regional Phenotyping of CF and Non-CF Bronchiectasis
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 5–100
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Empathic Communication Skills (ECS) Training
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Location
- Miami, FL + 7 other US sites
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18–100
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
EMG-Controlled Game to Retrain Upper Extremity Muscle Activation Patterns Following Stroke
VA Office of Research and Development
- Location
- Charleston, SC
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18+
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Breathing & Blood Pressure
Florida State University
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18–45
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Modulation of Brain Oscillations Underlying Working Memory
Massachusetts General Hospital
- Location
- Charlestown, MA
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18–35
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Achieving Understanding of the Natural History of Sickle Cell Trait (AUNT)
National Alliance for Sickle Cell Centers
- Location
- Birmingham, AL + 7 other US sites
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18+
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
MCI Speech in Noise
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- Location
- Lebanon, NH
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 55–80
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Insulin and Insulin Pulses During Fasting
Mayo Clinic
- Location
- Rochester, MN
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 25–65
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Family Members at INcreased-risk for Developing Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Massachusetts General Hospital
- Location
- Boston, MA
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 14+
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Philly CEAL- DECIDE+ Adaptation
University of Pennsylvania
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 35–75
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Ending the Epidemic Interventions in the Dental Setting - UH3
Columbia University
- Location
- New York, NY
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18+
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Modulation of Affect and Pain
Trustees of Dartmouth College
- Location
- Hanover, NH
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18–55
- RecruitingHealthy volunteersPhase 2
Consolidative Local Therapy (CLT) in Oligo-metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma
Yale University
- Location
- New Haven, CT
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18+
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Nicotinamide Mononucleotide Supplementation for Exercise Tolerance Improvement in Healthy Older Adults
Scott Silveira
- Location
- Beverly Hills, CA
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 60–80
- RecruitingHealthy volunteersPhase 2
Long Term Evaluation of Scapular-inserted Contraceptive Implants
Yale University
- Location
- Aurora, CO + 1 other US site
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18–45 · Women only
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Surgical Thromboprophylaxis Practices in Oncology Patients Within the NCORP Network, STOP-VTE Study
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Location
- Kingman, AZ + 101 other US sites
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18+
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Handgrip Training and Brain Blood Flow Regulation
Florida State University
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18–35
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Unconscious Mind Training
Dream Video LLC
- Location
- Naples, FL
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 10–75
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Tyrannosaurus Flex: Finding the "Fair-ly Normal" Grip
University of Minnesota
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 2–12
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Following the Sound of Music
Northeastern University
- Location
- Boston, MA
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 60–101
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Real-World Episodic Memory
Florida State University
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 18–35
- RecruitingHealthy volunteers
Social Connection Collective for Older Adults in Subsidized Housing
Johns Hopkins University
- Location
- Baltimore, MD
- Eligibility basics
- Ages 62+
Who these studies look for
“Healthy” is decided at screening, not by you. Sites usually check vital signs, blood and urine tests, an ECG, your medications and sometimes your BMI or smoking status. A study can still turn you away for reasons that have nothing to do with being unwell, such as timing or a full roster.
Matching a page like this one never means you qualify. Each research team decides eligibility at screening.
Questions
Do healthy volunteer studies pay?
Many do, because volunteers give up time and follow strict schedules, but amounts are set by each study and are usually only confirmed by the research site. When a record states an amount we show the exact wording; otherwise we say compensation is not disclosed.
What happens at a screening visit?
Expect consent paperwork first, then a health questionnaire, vital signs, blood and urine samples and often an ECG. You can ask questions and withdraw at any time, before or after you sign.