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Patients: Explore clinical trials across nearly every area of eye care. We’ll help you enroll in a trial that could improve your eye health, help others, and compensate you for your time.

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Partners / Sponsors / CROs: Work with a trusted clinical trial site with 25 FDA approvals and nearly 500 completed sponsored, randomized trials—helping you enroll faster, generate high-quality data, and keep your trial on track.

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Located Near Downtown Louisville, KY, in Butchertown

1536 Story Ave
Louisville, KY 40206
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About Butchertown Clinical Trials

Butchertown Clinical Trials is a clinical trials research site in Louisville, KY, specializing in ophthalmic, vaccine, adult medicine, and metabolic disease clinical trials. Our mission is to help improve treatments and access to innovative care for all patients by involving them in clinical trials. We regularly recruit study subjects for paid clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment firms to prove the usefulness of new treatments, surgical implants, or diagnostic medical devices.

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How We Do Dry Eye Research and Paid Clinical Trials in Louisville, KY

We regularly recruit patients (study subjects) to enroll in dry eye research trials and paid clinical trials that are sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, surgical and medical equipment firms, and others attempting to prove the usefulness of a new pharmaceutical agent, treatments, surgical implants, or diagnostic medical devices.

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We are always enrolling for our clinical research trials and studies for:

  • Dry Eye Disease
  • Cataract
  • Macular Degeneration
  • Glaucoma
  • Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Corneal Dystrophy
  • Geographic Atrophy
  • LASIK and post-operative conditions
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Conditions of the Eye and Ocular Adnexa
  • Environmental Allergies
  • Seasonal Allergies
  • Presbyopia
  • Hypertension
  • Hypothyroid
  • High Cholesterol
  • Nutrition and Weight Loss
  • Type I and Type II Diabetes

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For Immediate Release Louisville, Kentucky January 13, 2022. Butchertown Clinical Trials, an outpatient clinical trials site, today announced the promotion of Kellye Johnson to Clinical Trials Site Director. She will have the overall responsibility for site workflow and resources management. Kellye has been integral to our development during the past five years, and we are thrilled to promote her to…

Butchertown Clinical Trials and The Eye Care Institute Announce Our 15th FDA Approval Vuity™, the first and only eye drop approved for daily correction of near and intermediate vision without affecting distance vision A First for Our Clinical Trials Program Third Approval in Fifteen Days

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Butchertown Clinical Trials and The Eye Care Institute Announce Our 14th FDA Approval Tyrvaya™, the first and only nasal spray approved for signs and symptoms of Dry Eye Disease – Second Announcement in Two Days

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October 18, 2021 For Immediate Release Ocular Therapeutix, a Bedford MA company, has announced the FDA has approved Dextenza® for treating ocular itching associated with allergic conjunctivitis. John C. Meyer, MD, of The Eye Care Institute and Butchertown Clinical Trials, was a principal investigator for the clinical trials leading to the FDA approval of this new treatment option for persons…

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We regularly recruit patients (study subjects) to enroll in dry eye research trials and paid clinical trials that are sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, surgical and medical equipment firms, and others attempting to prove the usefulness of a new pharmaceutical agent, treatments, surgical implants, or diagnostic medical devices.

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We regularly recruit patients (study subjects) to enroll in clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, surgical and medical equipment firms, and others attempting to prove the usefulness of a new pharmaceutical agent, treatments, surgical implants, or diagnostic medical devices. View open trials today.

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