The BEST Trial: Biomarkers for Evaluating Spine Treatments
Summary
The registered summary isn't in our current data snapshot. Read it on the ClinicalTrials.gov record ↗. Why? →
Investigators
The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.
- Daniel Clauw, MD
University of Michigan
Principal Investigator - Gwendolyn Sowa, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Principal Investigator - Kevin Anstrom, PhD
UNC Chapel Hill
Principal Investigator - Matthew Mauck, PhD
UNC Chapel Hill
Principal Investigator
A profile link is shown only when the registered name resolves to a person record with a confident, namesake-checked match; ambiguous names stay unlinked.
Sites
12 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.
- Stanford University
Redwood City, California, United States
- University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
- University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
- University of Kansas Health System
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
- Massachusetts General Hospital/brigham Women'S Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- University of North Carolina Hospital Pain Management Clinic
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
- the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio, United States
- University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Site investigator names are published by ClinicalTrials.gov only while a study recruits, so completed studies list sites without them.
Drugs studied
No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →
Registration & key dates
Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.
- Start
- 12 Sept 2022
- Primary completion
- 30 Jul 2024
- Completion
- 22 Oct 2024
- Last update posted
- 23 Jul 2025
- Registered enrollment
- 1,014
- Registry id
- NCT05396014
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 12 Jul 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.