ORPHA:206448
Adult Krabbe disease
Is anyone studying this?
15
15 papers have ever been indexed under this name. For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=183) is 38.
15 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 38 (publications denominator n=183).
10 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 30.3th percentile (publications denominator)
Is a treatment being tested?
0
trials for this specific condition
No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present). 6 trials are registered for Krabbe disease, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.
Data as of 26 July 2026
6
trials for Krabbe disease, the broader category this belongs to
Trials registered for a broader category may or may not enrol people with this specific subtype — eligibility criteria vary, and the trial record often doesn't say. Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.
No matched interventional trials. This is true for 59.2% of diseases in the trials denominator (151 of 255). Here are the researchers publishing on it.
high confidence · 29.6th percentile (trials denominator)
Do we know what causes it?
Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.
No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.
Who's working on it?
90
Distinct author names in 15 sampled papers — named people below.
Who's working on it?
No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.
- 01Sakai N3 papers · 2024
Child Healthcare and Genetic Science Laboratory, Division of Health Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Laule C2 papers · 2018
Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2B5 Canada. claule@physics.ubc.ca
Papers in Europe PMC - 03MacKay AL2 papers · 2018
Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Shukla PK2 papers · 2025
Department of Computer Science & Engineering , University Institute of Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (State Technological University), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Vavasour IM2 papers · 2018
Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Abugabah A1 paper · 2025
College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Al-Khenaizan S1 paper · 2019
King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Department of Dermatology, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Alfadhel M1 paper · 2019
King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Genetic Division, Department of Pediatrics, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Attems J1 paper · 2026
Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Aubourg P1 paper · 2013Papers in Europe PMC
Recruiting interventional trials
Trials testing a treatment from the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set
No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.
6 interventional trials matched Krabbe disease, the broader category — see the summary above. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.
Where to find support
We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.
Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.
How we counted this
Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored below but are not added to the query string.
"Adult Krabbe disease" OR "Krabbe disease of adults"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Adult Krabbe disease" OR "Krabbe disease of adults" OR "Krabbe disease of the adults"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Cross-references (from Mondo): UMLS:C0268252
Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase
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Confidence reasoning
- Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus