The St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto 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).
The St Michael’s Hospital is InVivo’s second site in Toronto and sees over 70,000 emergency visits annually.
“My research focuses on engineering applications to neurosurgical procedures with the goal of improving safety and outcome for patients. The INSPIRE study holds much promise for this large unmet medical need and I look forward to participating,” says Howard Ginsberg, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery and the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and principal investigator at the study site.
There are now 28 clinical sites participating in the clinical study:
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, USA
Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, USA
Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center, St Louis, USA
Barrow Neurological Institute – St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, USA
Ben Taub Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, 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
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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 Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, 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
