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InVivo Therapeutics Announces Allegheny General Hospital as New Site for INSPIRE StudyInVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV) today announced that Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) in Pittsburgh, PA, part of Allegheny Health Network, 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 AGH, which treats more than 24,000 inpatients each year. AGH was the first hospital in the region to receive designation as a Level I Shock Trauma Center, which is the highest designation available. "My research interests lie at the intersection of neuro-oncology and spinal disorders. While we routinely enter the spinal cord to remove tumors, the INSPIRE study is the first opportunity that affords us the ability to enter the spinal cord in trauma cases. I look forward to being a part of this study, which has the potential to change the standard of care," said Terrence Julien, M.D., System Director of Surgical Neuro-Oncology, System Co-Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, and Principal Investigator at the study site. Mark Perrin, InVivo's CEO and Chairman, said, "We are pleased to welcome Dr. Julien and his team at Allegheny General Hospital to the INSPIRE study. We continue to add quality sites like AGH and look forward to adding more in the near future." There are now 26 clinical sites participating in the clinical study:
About the Neuro-Spinal Scaffold™ Implant Following acute spinal cord injury, surgical implantation of the biodegradable Neuro-Spinal Scaffold within the decompressed and debrided injury epicenter is intended to support appositional healing, thereby reducing post-traumatic cavity formation, sparing white matter, and allowing neural regeneration across the healed wound epicenter. The Neuro-Spinal Scaffold, an investigational device, has received a Humanitarian Use Device (HUD) designation and currently is being evaluated in the INSPIRE pivotal probable benefit study for the treatment of patients with complete (AIS A) traumatic acute spinal cord injury. About InVivo Therapeutics InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. is a research and clinical-stage biomaterials and biotechnology company with a focus on treatment of spinal cord injuries. The company was founded in 2005 with proprietary technology co-invented by Robert Langer, Sc.D., Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Joseph P. Vacanti, M.D., who then was at Boston Children's Hospital and who now is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2011, the company earned the David S. Apple (News - Alert) Award from the American Spinal Injury Association for its outstanding contribution to spinal cord injury medicine. In 2015, the company's investigational Neuro-Spinal Scaffold received the 2015 Becker's Healthcare Spine Device Award. The publicly-traded company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. For more details, visit www.invivotherapeutics.com. Safe Harbor Statement Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements can be identified by words such as "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "will," "may," "should," "expect," "designed to," "potentially," and similar expressions, and include statements regarding the safety and effectiveness of the Neuro-Spinal Scaffold and the enrollment of additional patients in the INSPIRE pivotal probable benefit study. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations, and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties relating to the company's ability to successfully open additional clinical sites for enrollment and to enroll additional patients; the timing of the Institutional Review Board process; the company's ability to obtain FDA approval to conduct future studies; the company's ability to commercialize its products; the company's ability to develop, market and sell products based on its technology; the expected benefits and efficacy of the company's products and technology in connection with the treatment of spinal cord injuries; the availability of substantial additional funding for the company to continue its operations and to conduct research and development, clinical studies and future product commercialization; and other risks associated with the company's business, research, product development, regulatory approval, marketing and distribution plans and strategies identified and described in more detail in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, and its other filings with the SEC (News - Alert), including the company's Form 10-Qs and current reports on Form 8-K. The company does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161103005074/en/ |
