InVivo Therapeutics Announces Ben Taub Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine as New Site for INSPIRE Study
Business Wire July 18, 2016
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV) today announced that the Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, TX has been added as a clinical site for The INSPIRE Study: InVivo Study of Probable Benefit of the Neuro-Spinal Scaffold™ for Safety and Neurologic Recovery in Subjects with Complete Thoracic AIS A Spinal Cord Injury. The Ben Taub Hospital, located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, is staffed by the Baylor College of Medicine and is the central clinical care facility for the Harris Health System.
“I’m thrilled to bring the INSPIRE study to the Ben Taub Hospital,” said Alexander Ropper, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine, surgeon with Harris Health System’s Ben Taub Hospital and Principal Investigator at the study site. “Implanting the first Neuro-Spinal Scaffold at the Barrow Neurological Institute with Dr. Theodore was a rewarding experience and I look forward to leveraging that experience here.”
Mark Perrin, InVivo’s CEO and Chairman, said, “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Ropper and the Ben Taub Hospital into the INSPIRE study. His experience with the first implantation will be invaluable as we look to enroll additional patients into the study.”
There are now 22 clinical sites participating in the clinical study:
Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ
Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO
Ben Taub Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Barrow Neurological Institute – St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates/Carolinas Rehabilitation, Charlotte, NC
Cooper Neurological Institute, Camden, NJ
Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine/Indiana University Health Neuroscience Center, Indianapolis, IN
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Keck Hospital of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Medical College of Wisconsin/Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, WI
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA
University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, KY
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA
University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC
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