InVivo Therapeutics Announces Northwestern Medicine as New Site for INSPIRE Study
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Aug 18, 2016)
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV) today announced that Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, IL 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. Surgeries will be performed at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital, an 894-bed Level I trauma center.
“Chicago, as with other major metropolitan areas, sees a disproportionally high number of acute, traumatic spinal cord injuries and unfortunately, with complete spinal cord injuries, trauma teams have limited tools at their disposal to treat this devastating condition. I look forward to being a part of the encouraging INSPIRE study,” said Nader Dahdaleh, M.D., Assistant Professor in Neurological Surgery and Principal Investigator at the study site.
Mark Perrin, InVivo’s CEO and Chairman, said, “We welcome Dr. Dahdaleh and the team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to the INSPIRE study. With this addition, we now have a site in each of the top six most populated cities in the United States.”
There are now 23 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
Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL
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 Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, KY
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA
University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC
