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Individuals who are carriers of ALS causative gene variants have an increased lifetime risk of developing ALS or a related disorder, Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). We are doing this research to collect a wide range of biofluid samples, clinical information, and other health and wellbeing information to look for measurable differences that will help us understand how and when the body changes in response to ALS causative gene variants.

The purpose of this study is to study the evolution of early life risk factors that may lead to cancer and other conditions. This is a prospective cohort study of families who reside in Minnesota.

The purpose of this study is to see if sacituzumab govitecan in combination with pembrolizumab can improve outcomes and delay the return of disease in participants with high-risk early Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) when compared to pembrolizumab alone or pembrolizumab in combination with capecitabine. Participants with low tumor expression of the estrogen and/or progesterone receptors (1 to 10%) will also be included in this study. The study treatment will be chosen by chance—like flipping a coin. There is a 1 out of 2 chances to receive Sacituzumab govitecan in combination with Pembrolizumab and 1 out of 2 chances to receive a study treatment of study doctor’s choice of either pembrolizumab alone or pembrolizumab in combination with capecitabine. Participants and their study doctor will know what study drug is being taken.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and ability of a transplant with your own gene modified stem cells (autologous stem cell transplant) to treat sickle cell disease. The goal is to determine if a sufficient amount of hemoglobin that prevents red blood sickling can be produced after the gene modified stem cells are returned to your body. This study may provide information on the potential usefulness of bb1111 for treatment of sickle cell disease

The purpose of this study is to understand if a drug called baricitinib can help with thinking and memory problems after COVID-19 infection for people suffering with Long COVID. Some people have thinking and memory problems along with possible difficulty breathing, a racing heart, dizziness, and/or fatigue after COVID-19 called Long COVID. This includes things like having a hard time remembering people’s names, managing money, or keeping a job. For some patients, these issues may last several years. We still do not understand why these problems happen and why they last longer in some people. This study will look at the changes in brain function, heart function, and daily activities after taking baricitinib or placebo for people who experience Long COVID.

To assess and characterize the risk of malignancies, and long-term safety following treatment with atidarsagene autotemcel (Lenmeldy).

This study will evaluate the efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of a combination drug called CagriSema, which is a combination of cagrilintide s.c. 2.4 mg and semaglutide s.c. 2.4 mg for the management of weight in children and adolescents with overweight or obesity. Participants in the study may receive study medication for up to 250 weeks.

This study aims to quantify the rates of cervical cancer screening and endometrial sampling prior to gender-affirming hysterectomy, assess the need for these tests in TGD individuals, and explore patient-centered options for these tests.

Social determinants of health (SDoH) like housing instability, food insecurity, and financial burden, for example, can negatively affect people dealing with cancer. With new cancer treatments and higher costs for patients, people dealing with cancer may worry more about those issues. The goal of this study is to compare the ways people with cancer are connected to resources addressing specific needs and how those connections help their overall well-being. The research study will take about five months and participants will spend around one hour on research activities (each survey would take less than 15 minutes). The time you spend following up on helpful resources is completely up to participants.

More than 65% of people with lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) are overweight or obese. Overweight or obese people with PAD have greater functional impairment and faster functional decline than normal weight people with PAD. Walking exercise is first line therapy to improve walking performance in PAD. However, our NHLBI-funded observational longitudinal study of functional decline in PAD showed that overweight and obese PAD participants who combined weight loss with walking exercise had significantly less functional decline than those who walked for exercise but did not lose weight. Therefore, we hypothesize that among people with PAD who are overweight or obese, a weight loss intervention combined with exercise will improve walking ability more than exercise alone. However, the effects of intentional weight loss in overweight or obese people with PAD are unknown and may not be beneficial if weight loss exacerbates PAD-related sarcopenia. Behavior change that achieves sustained weight loss is particularly challenging in older obese people with chronic disease. Therefore, among people with PAD and BMI>28 kg/m2, we will conduct a randomized clinical trial to test the hypothesis that a weight loss intervention combined with walking exercise achieves greater improvement in functional performance than exercise alone at 12-month follow-up.

This study will help to identify challenges and barriers to self-performing anal cancer screening tests, and may identify unique ways to make this form of screening easier, more cost-effective, and more frequently performed. We believe that it has the potential to minimize the frequency of both disease and death from anal cancer among high-risk patient groups.

The HEALEY ALS Platform Trial is a research trial that tests the safety and effectiveness of multiple treatments in ALS. A regimen is a specific course of treatment, each with a different study drug. We are doing this research to find out if different treatments have an effect on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). We also want to find out if these treatments are safe to take without causing too many side effects.

This research study is designed to evaluate a new treatment approach for patients with chronic heart failure. This study will assess the effectiveness and safety of a new medical device, the AquaPass system, in managing the accumulation of fluids in the body that persists despite standard medical treatment. The purpose of this study is to understand if the use of the AquaPass System with medication treatment results in increased fluid removal compared to only regular medication treatment.

This study is being done to learn more about the safety and effectiveness of ifinatamab deruxtecan (I-DXd) against extensive stage small cell lung cancer.

This study is testing an compound called TP-3654, which is an investigational product being developed for Myelofibrosis.

This research is being to see if a new 3D simulation model is helpful in teaching patients about care of their stomas after surgery. We expect that people will be in this research study for 3-6 months depending on the timing of surgery and postoperative visits. The number of preoperative and postoperative visits, physician exams, scans, X-rays, and laboratory tests for preparation for surgery or after the surgery does not change because of this study.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are looking for research participants for a study about the efficacy of early intervention services provided over telehealth (video conferencing) for kids ages 1-5 years old with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families. This study is also intended to test the training of community providers in the use of this model. Parents will receive coaching to provide interventions to support their child’s communication and other skills. You and your child may be eligible if your child is between 1 and 5 years old, your child is on a waitlist to be evaluated for ASD or has received an ASD diagnosis in the last 3 months & is waiting for services. Participants receive parent coaching 3x weekly for 9-12 weeks for 30-60 minutes over telehealth. Questionnaires and interviews are given before and after the intervention. Overall, parents commit to 18 months of participation.

The purpose of this study is to examine brain activity associated with movement in people with Parkinson’s disease, and the relationship of this brain activity to problems with moving and thinking. Brain activity will be recorded using a cap with EEG sensors attached and/or by recording brain signals from your deep brain stimulator (Medtronic PerceptTM device). We will look at brain activity associated with balance, walking, and movements of your arms or legs.

The purpose of the study is to compare two surgical procedures and their ability to decrease the risk of developing ovarian cancer for pre-menopausal women with BRCA1 mutations.

We are doing this study to see if we can lower the chance of endometrial cancer coming back and causing death by adding a drug or drugs that target HER2 proteins in addition to the usual combination of chemotherapy drugs. We want to find out if this approach is better or worse than the usual approach for your endometrial cancer. The usual approach is defined as care most people get for endometrial cancer, which in this case would be chemotherapy.

The purpose of this research is to compare the effects of nivolumab with vusolimogene oderparepvec (VO) against standard of care treatment drug(s) currently available for patients with advanced melanoma. We expect that taking part in this research will last up to 60 months.

This partially randomized phase III trial studies iobenguane I-131 or ALK Inhibitor Therapy and standard therapy in treating younger patients (365 days to 30 years of age) with newly-diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma or ganglioneuroblastoma.

This phase II/III trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose of the drug cabozantinib in combination with standard chemotherapy, and to compare the effect of adding cabozantinib to standard chemotherapy to standard chemotherapy alone in treating patients with newly diagnosed osteosarcoma. Cabozantinib is in a class of medications called kinase inhibitors. It works by blocking the action of an abnormal protein that signals tumor cells to multiply. This helps slow or stop the spread of tumor cells. The drugs used in standard chemotherapy for this trial are methotrexate, doxorubicin, and cisplatin. Methotrexate stops cells from making DNA and may kill tumor cells. It is a type of antimetabolite. Doxorubicin is in a class of medications called anthracyclines. It works by slowing or stopping the growth of tumor cells in the body. Cisplatin is in a class of medications known as platinum-containing compounds. It works by killing, stopping or slowing the growth of tumor cells. Adding cabozantinib to standard chemotherapy may work better in treating newly diagnosed osteosarcoma.

We are studying the effects of stimulating the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve connects the brain to many organs in the body. Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is already approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat depression and epilepsy. We want to learn more about how it affects other parts of our bodies, such as the heart, metabolism, the immune system, and the nervous system. We hope that by understanding how VNS affects the body as a whole, we can develop new treatments for other conditions, or help to improve its use for depression and epilepsy.

The purpose of this study is to critically assess the current treatment that patients are undergoing by reviewing routine data collected and adding one additional outcome questionnaire solely for research purposes

This research is being done to gain a better understanding of Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) and treatment with oral capsule microbiota transplant therapy (MTT) and the effects. Participants will be randomized (by chance) into 1 of 2 groups, treatment or placebo (no active ingredients) group. This study will last for up to 6 months

The purpose of this research study is to investigate new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods to better detect and monitor osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) before and after treatment. ONFH causes injury to the hip joint that can lead to osteoarthritis (the breaking/wearing down of cartilage & tissues within the joint) and the eventual need for a hip replacement. It can be difficult to detect ONFH early on using current medical imaging techniques, which is when treatments may be the most effective. Furthermore, available treatments are not always effective at preventing the progression (spread or growth) of ONFH. This research may benefit others with ONFH by providing more effective medical imaging tools to detect ONFH earlier and inform treatment decisions to increase the chance of stopping or delaying the progression of ONFH and preventing hip osteoarthritis.

This is a study of adults with unexplained chronic cough between 18-80 years old. This study is trying to determine whether a noninvasive vibrotactile stimulation device can help reduce cough symptoms.

We have determined that the microbes (bacteria) in the colon can play a role in causing and preventing complications of colon surgery. While the surgical bowel prep before surgery eliminates the harmful bacteria, it also eliminates the beneficial bacteria that aid wound healing. The purpose of this study is to determine if we can restore the presence of good bacteria (also known as ‘intestinal microbiota’) in the colon by transplanting them from a healthy donor.

The purpose of RESTORATiVE303 is to see if the study drug, which is called VE303, is safe and effective in preventing another episode of Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI). VE303 is an investigational drug that has 8 strains of live bacteria, called “commensals.” Commensals are the type of bacteria that live in harmony with the body, without harming health. These specific bacteria are often found in the intestines of normal, healthy people. They were selected for inclusion in VE303 because they rarely infect humans (mostly in very weakened patients), they do not carry any toxins that can make one sick, and they are not known to carry any risk of creating or spreading resistance to antibiotics.