Welcome to TREAD Research

Pioneering Clinical Trials. Empowering Health. Changing Lives.
At TREAD Research, we are driven by purpose—to bring innovation, ethics, and accessibility to the forefront of medical research.

Based in Cape Town, South Africa, and operating from our flagship site in Tygerberg Hospital and our satellite site in Bellville Business Park.

TREAD has proudly become a leading name in clinical trials, particularly in cardiology, vaccines, and other expanding therapeutic areas.
ABOUT US
PATIENT OUTREACH

TREAD is

  • Sanofi Premier Site
  • Pfizer INSPIRE Site
  • Medpace Flagship Site

WITH

Award winning Recruitment
  • Official Accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs
  • Certificates of Excellence for Exceptional Site Contribution and Trial Conduct.
  • Most Innovative Clinical Research Organisation 2020.
  • Cardiology Clinical Trials Unit of the Year 2021.

SUCCESSFUL AUDITS BY

  • American FDA
  • SAHPRA
  • Number of local and international pharmaceutical research companies and clinical research organisations.
Clinical Trials Tread Research

Why TREAD?

  • First in Africa to be accredited by the prestigious AAHRPP for protecting human research participants
  • Successfully audited by the FDA, SAHPRA, and multiple global sponsors
  • Home to a multidisciplinary team of skilled clinical researchers and community-focused professionals
  • Fully equipped for Phase II–IV trials, with a deep commitment to informed consent, participant care, and protocol excellence

Who We Are

TREAD Research (PTY) is a dedicated clinical trial site committed to solving today’s most pressing health challenges through human-centered research. We conduct ethically sound and globally compliant trials in areas including:
  • Cardiology & Cardiovascular Risk
  • Pfizer INSPIRE Site
  • Rheumatology
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Gastroenterology
  • Vaccines & Immunology
Our location within Tygerberg Hospital—South Africa’s second-largest public hospital—positions us at the heart of cutting-edge clinical care and academic medicine.

Track record of studies completed

154

Cardiovascular

201

Metabolic

25

Renal

5

Infectious Diseases

33

Rheumatology

8

Neurology

58

General Medicine

8

Healthy Volunteer

1

Dermatology

1

Women’s health

7

COVID-19 treatment

18

Vaccine