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InVivo Therapeutics Announces University of New Mexico Hospital as New Site for INSPIRE Study


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Jan 17, 2017) – InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV) today announced that the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) in Albuquerque, NM 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 University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) is the state’s only Level I trauma center.

“I am pleased to be joining the INSPIRE study and look forward to the opportunity to safely investigate this innovative experimental therapy,” said Jeremy Lewis, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and Principal Investigator at the study site.

Mark Perrin, InVivo’s CEO and Chairman, said, “We welcome Dr. Lewis and the team at UNMH to the INSPIRE study. As the only Level I trauma center in the entire state of New Mexico, UNMH has a large catchment area that will be helpful for enrolling patients.”

There are now 30 clinical sites participating in the clinical study:

Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA

Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ

Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO

Barrow Neurological Institute – St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ

Ben Taub Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates/Carolinas Rehabilitation, Charlotte, NC

Cooper Neurological Institute, Camden, NJ

Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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

Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ

Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, KY

University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, NM

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA

University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA

Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC

For more information, please visit the company’s ClinicalTrials.gov registration site: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT02138110