{"id":203030,"date":"2025-01-03T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/four-clinical-trials-were-watching-that-could-change-medicine-in-2025"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T16:27:30","slug":"four-clinical-trials-were-watching-that-could-change-medicine-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/four-clinical-trials-were-watching-that-could-change-medicine-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"Four Clinical Trials We\u2019re Watching That Could Change Medicine in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/four-clinical-trials-were-watching-that-could-change-medicine-in-20253.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, scientists dug into how psychedelics and MDMA <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2024\/01\/16\/psychedelics-rapidly-fight-depression-a-new-study-offers-a-first-hint-at-why\/\">fight off depression<\/a> and post-traumatic stress disorders. The year was a relative setback for the psychedelic renaissance, with the FDA rejecting <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2024\/07\/18\/your-brain-on-mushrooms-study-reveals-what-psilocybin-does-to-the-brain-and-for-how-long\/\">MDMA therapy<\/a>. But the field is still gaining recognition for its therapeutic potential.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s lenacapavir, a shot that protects people from HIV. Named \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/breakthrough-2024\">breakthrough of the year<\/a>\u201d by <em>Science<\/em>, the shot completely protected African teenage girls and women against HIV infection. Another trial supported the results, showing the drug protected people who have sex with men at nearly 100 percent efficacy. The success stems from a new understanding of the protein \u201ccapsule\u201d guarding the virus\u2019 genetic material. Many other viruses have a similar makeup\u2014meaning the strategy could help researchers design new drugs to fight them off too.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s poised to take the leap from breakthrough to clinical approval in 2025? Here\u2019s what to expect in the year ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, scientists dug into how psychedelics and MDMA fight off depression and post-traumatic stress disorders. The year was a relative setback for the psychedelic renaissance, with the FDA rejecting MDMA therapy. But the field is still gaining recognition for its therapeutic potential. Then there\u2019s lenacapavir, a shot that protects people from HIV. Named \u201cbreakthrough of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}