The Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary has been added as a Canadian clinical site for InVivo Therapeutics’ 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).
According to a company release, the Foothills Medical Centre is the largest hospital in Alberta, providing advanced healthcare services to over two million people from Calgary and southern Alberta, the Northwestern United States, Southeastern British Columbia, and southern Saskatchewan.
“InVivo’s Neuro-Spinal Scaffold is one of the more innovative approaches to treating acute spinal cord injury in recent history and we look forward to being a part of the INSPIRE study,” says Steven Casha, assistant professor of Neurosurgery in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and principal investigator at the study site.
There are now 24 clinical sites participating in the clinical study:
Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, USA
Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center, St Louis, USA
Ben Taub Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Barrow Neurological Institute – St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, USA
Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates/Carolinas Rehabilitation, Charlotte, USA
Cooper Neurological Institute, Camden, USA
Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Canada
Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine/Indiana University Health Neuroscience Center, Indianapolis, USA
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Keck Hospital of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Medical College of Wisconsin/Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, USA
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA
Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, USA
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, USA
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada
University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, USA
University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, USA
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA
University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, USA
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, USA
University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, USA
Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, USA
