Clinical Research

Allergies are one of the most common immune system conditions, impacting as many as one in five people. Common allergies include pollen, animal dander, dust, and foods including nuts, shellfish and milk.

Clinical research at Virginia Mason is overseen by the Benaroya Research Institute, uniquely combining the expertise of a world-renowned medical research institute with the remarkable care of a healthcare quality leader.

BRI’s Allergy and Asthma Biorepository is a confidential list of people with allergies and/or asthma, who are willing to donate a blood sample and provide health information for scientific research.

Nearly 1.8 million Americans will learn that they have cancer this year. There are more than 200 forms of this often devastating disease, which are characterized by the uncontrolled and destructive growth of cells.

Benaroya Research Institute and Virginia Mason Medical Center conduct clinical trials to discover new treatments and approaches to cardiovascular disease.

BRI’s Down Syndrome Biorepository is a confidential list of people with Down syndrome who are willing to donate samples and provide health information for scientific research.

BRI’s Healthy Control Biorepository is a confidential list of people with no immune system disease, who are willing to donate a blood sample and provide health information for scientific research.

Understanding how infectious diseases impact the immune system and vice versa is a key piece of BRI’s work.

More than one in 200 Americans live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Scientists at BRI are studying IBD from a variety of angles to understand what goes wrong in the gut to trigger this disease and develop new ways to treat, stop and even prevent it.

BRI’s Rheumatic Diseases Biorepository is a confidential list of people with rheumatic diseases who are willing to donate a blood sample and provide health information for scientific research.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects about one in 1,000 Americans and is twice as common in the Northwest, where approximately two in 1,000 people live with MS.

BRI and Virginia Mason investigators conduct numerous clinical trials in the ongoing search for innovative therapies of the most devastating chronic neurological disorders. 

Benaroya Research Institute and Virginia Mason Medical Center conduct clinical research trials to find ways to improve treatment and care of conditions of the ear, nose, and/or throat.

BRI scientists study pulmonary diseases that happen when there is too much inflammation in the lungs including acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and interstitial lung disease. We study donated samples to better understand how and why pulmonary diseases happen and to find better treatments and prevention.

Benaroya Research Institute and Virginia Mason Medical Center conduct clinical research trials to find ways to improve ways to treat and diagnose disease.

BRI was an early leader in understanding the genetic component of rheumatoid arthritis, and scientists at BRI continue their work to understand what causes it, how to prevent it, and how to better treat it.

BRI’s Rheumatic Diseases Biorepository is a confidential list of people with rheumatic diseases who are willing to donate a blood sample and provide health information for scientific research.

Benaroya Research Institute and Virginia Mason Medical Center are actively engaged in clinical studies to advance the practice of surgical treatments for a variety of conditions.

For more than two decades, BRI has been a worldwide leader in research to predict, prevent, treat and cure type 1 diabetes.

Benaroya Research Institute and Virginia Mason Medical Center are conducting clinical research studies with the goal of improving diagnosis, treatment, and symptom management for urologic conditions.