REGISTRATION OF CLINICAL TRIALS IN CTRI CAN BE ONLY DONE PROSPECTIVELY FROM 1ST APRIL 2018


With effect from 1st April 2018, registration of clinical trials only prospectively as per the new rule of    The Clinical Trials Registry of India (CTRI). CTRI was accepting clinical trial registration which were ongoing and completed till now but the new rule will make it mandatory to register a clinical trial before the enrollment of first patient in the study . If the trials are registered after the study or during the study the study will be marked as Trial Registered Retrospectively which cannot be altered or changed later. Currently many publications or journals are accepting publication which are registered prospectively only. This also have made Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),who is managing the CTRI to take this decision.ICMR started CTRI in 2007 as free clincal trial registry which was made mandatory by Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI)  during 2009.

As per CTRI notification in their website from 1st April 2018,no new submission of any ongoing/closed to recruitment/completed trials will not be permitted. But  due to the unprecedented number of such trial submissions in the last few days, the CTRI will process and register these trials until 31st May 2018. Registrants are requested to proactively cooperate with CTRI regarding requests for trial modifications and expedite trial verification. The trials where queries/reminders and verification emails have been sent three or more times and responses from registrants are not received OR trials are resubmitted without any modifications will be deleted.


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