Clinical Research at Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic's primary value is that the needs of the patient come first. This commitment to our patients includes maintaining comprehensive and robust research programs that lead to improvements in patient care, namely clinical research.

As early as 1915, Mayo Clinic founders Drs. Will and Charlie Mayo recognized that advances in medical practice depended heavily on research.

Today every department and division at Mayo Clinic is involved in patient-oriented, or clinical, research. Throughout Mayo Clinic's history advances in clinical research have contributed to the health and well-being of not just our own patients, but individuals throughout the world.

Mayo Clinic researchers are currently conducting more than 8,000 clinical research studies, including such diverse investigations as seeking to develop a 4-dimensional CT scan to provide better images of small bones in hands and feet, using zebrafish to determine genetic connections to addiction, evaluating the effect of freeze-dried table grape powder on blood estrogen levels in postmenopausal women, and comparing the use of atrioventricular node ablation and a pacemaker to the traditional drug therapy for atrial fibrillation.

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