About ClinTrialFinder
ClinTrialFinder is an independent AI tool that helps patients and caregivers identify potentially relevant clinical trials.
ClinTrialFinder was created by Qiansheng Wang, an independent developer and nasopharyngeal carcinoma patient.
Before his diagnosis, he worked as a data scientist in a startup in Singapore building machine learning systems to analyze large collections of text.
After being diagnosed, he began searching for clinical trials and discovered how difficult it was to navigate thousands of studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. Eligibility criteria are complex, and it is often unclear which trials might actually be relevant to a patient's situation.
ClinTrialFinder was built to make that process easier — helping patients and caregivers quickly identify potentially relevant trials.
Why This Exists
Beyond making trial search easier for others, this project is personal in several ways. It keeps me engaged with the frontier of oncology research. It also tackles a data science problem I care deeply about — how to surface the most relevant clinical trials for specific cancers like NPC from among thousands of possibilities. And it gives meaning to a difficult situation.
As Viktor Frankl wrote, everything can be taken from a person but the freedom to choose one's response. ClinTrialFinder is part of that response.
How It Works
A guided questionnaire helps you describe your condition in your own words — no medical knowledge needed to get started.
From there, ClinTrialFinder searches active clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov. AI analyzes each trial's eligibility criteria and compares them with your situation — not just keyword matching — to identify potentially relevant trials.
The ranking is also informed by published biomedical literature (e.g., PubMed) related to the drugs and diseases studied in each trial.
An open-source command-line version is also available for developers and researchers.
Privacy
No account is required to use ClinTrialFinder. We do not sell or share your data with third parties for marketing or advertising purposes. For full details, see our Privacy Policy.
Contact
Questions, feedback, or partnership inquiries: chncwang@gmail.com