NIAID's important clinical trial work cannot be done without the participation of healthy volunteers! Healthy volunteers are people with no known significant health problems.
Help Make a Difference
As a healthy volunteer you will provide researchers with crucial data because your health information can be used as a comparison. In some studies, researchers need to compare healthy volunteers with people who have a specific disease or condition.
Featured Clinical Studies
A healthy volunteer receives an experimental universal influenza vaccine known as H1ssF_3928 as part of a Phase 1 clinical trial at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Scientists at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC) developed the vaccine and are leading the clinical trial. Floreliz Mendoza, nurse specialist and study coordinator at the VRC Clinical Trials Program performs the vaccination as trial principal investigator, Dr. Grace Chen, VRC Clinical Trials Program, observes.
Vaccine Research Center Studies
The Vaccine Research Center is looking for adults 18 years of age and older to participate in trials evaluating vaccine and monoclonal antibodies.
Screening Healthy Volunteers for Influenza Challenge Studies
If you are healthy, have some time, and have an interest in helping researchers make discoveries about influenza (the flu), we need you for a screening study.
Natural History and Genetics of Food Allergy and Related Conditions
About 15 million Americans have a food allergy. Because there are no cures or effective prevention or treatment for food allergies, researchers want to learn more about them.
How You Can Volunteer
Click on the button below to see a list of studies seeking healthy volunteers that are listed on the NIAID clinical trials pages. This list is not comprehensive and more studies may be found on clinicaltrials.gov.
See NIAID Trials Seeking Healthy Volunteers
Another way to volunteer is to join the registry for the Clinical Research Volunteer Program.
Volunteer Testimonial
Zenovia Wright, VRC Clinical Trial Participant Healthy Volunteer Program
"I connected with the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) to promote HIV vaccine research. Ultimately, I want to do all I can to raise awareness in the community about HIV/AIDS and help those infected with the virus get the support they need. Together, we can stop the spread of this devastating disease."
– Zenovia Wright
Read Zenovia Wright's full story or see more testimonials from clinical study participants.