Rare disease

Short Bowel Syndrome

Clinical trials recruiting in Australia for Short Bowel Syndrome, a rare disease, as the public registries list them.

Also called: SBS; Short gut syndrome; Short intestine syndrome

Sources: ClinicalTrials.gov, Orphanet Checked: 11 October 2026 Not medical advice

At a glance

2 trials recruiting in Australia

74 trials recruiting overseas

1-9 / 100 000 (Point prevalence, Europe, Validated) prevalence

Not recorded age of onset

11 October 2026 date last checked

Trials in Australia

This Australian count is likely to be on the low side. It counts the trials this site files under this condition; the registry’s own search is broader and also returns closely related conditions, some of which have their own page here. If you are searching widely, check the registry as well — every trial below links to its own record.

  • Recruiting Not a phased study

    Study for people with Short Bowel Syndrome

    Where
    • Online Patient Enrollment System, Sydney — Recruiting
    Who can join Age child, adult, older adult. Sex Anyone, regardless of sex. Healthy volunteers Not accepted.
    Sponsor Sanford Health
    Timeline
    Started 1 July 2010 Today 16 October 2026 Estimated completion 1 December 2100

    NCT01793168 · Checked 11 October 2026

  • Recruiting Phase 3

    Phase 3 study for people with Short Bowel Syndrome

    Where

    No Australian site on this record is listed as recruiting right now, even though the trial itself is open. Check with the site or the official record before travelling.

    • St Vincent's Hospital (Melbourne) Ltd, Fitzroy (VIC) — Not yet recruiting
    • Austin Hospital, Heidelberg (VIC) — Not yet recruiting
    • Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Herston (QLD) — Not yet recruiting
    • Fiona Stanley Hospital, Harry Perkins Medical Research Institute, Perth (WA) — Not yet recruiting
    Who can join Age 18 Years and over. Sex Anyone, regardless of sex. Healthy volunteers Not accepted.
    Sponsor VectivBio AG
    Timeline
    Started 1 August 2026 Today 16 October 2026 Estimated completion 1 October 2028

    NCT07742735 · Checked 11 October 2026

Trials overseas

74 trials for this disease are open to new participants outside Australia, as ClinicalTrials.gov listed them on 11 October 2026. Voxsanity does not publish a page for any of them; the searches below reach them at the registry.

These overseas counts are likely too high. They come from the registry’s own search, which expands a condition name to related conditions, so some of the trials counted are for a different disease in the same family.

Trials not shown here

Some Australian trials are registered only on the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry and are not shown here. Search them at Australian Clinical Trials.

Key facts

Inheritance Not recorded
Genes Not recorded
Prevalence 1-9 / 100 000 (Point prevalence, Europe, Validated)
Age of onset Not recorded

Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Available on https://www.orphadata.com. Used under CC BY 4.0. Source: Orphanet / Orphadata (orphadata.com).

Sources and dates

  • ClinicalTrials.gov – trial records, statuses and site lists
  • Orphanet / Orphadata – prevalence, age of onset, inheritance, genes and alternative names, used under CC BY 4.0
  • ClinicalTrials.gov processing date: 4 August 2026.
  • This page last checked by Voxsanity: 11 October 2026.

Voxsanity reformats data from public registries into this layout. It does not edit, interpret or add to what the registry published.

Not medical advice.

Individual trial records are refreshed on a rolling basis rather than all at once, so a record may be up to several weeks old. Each trial page and trial card shows the date its own record was last synced. Where a record has lagged, its status, sites and enrolment can differ from the current registry state in either direction, so check the registry link on the trial page before acting on them.

Orphanet citation

Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Available on https://www.orphadata.com. Used under CC BY 4.0. Source: Orphanet / Orphadata (orphadata.com). Accessed 20 September 2026.

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