Neuralstem Announces First Surgery Completed in Cervical Cohort of Phase 1 Clinical Trial in Patients with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

Neuralstem (Nasdaq:CUR), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of nervous system therapies based on its neural stem cell technology, today announced that it completed the first surgery in the second, cervical injury cohort of a Phase 1 clinical trial in patients with chronic spinal cord injury (cSCI). NSI-566 is Neuralstem’s lead stem cell therapy candidate.

As quoted in the press release:

Neuralstem is conducting a Phase 1 human clinical trial evaluating the safety and feasibility of using NSI-566 spinal cord-derived neural stem cells to repair cSCI. The clinical trial is being conducted at the University of California San Diego, Division of Neurosurgery. In April 2017, the clinical trial was expanded to include a new cohort of four qualifying patients with AIS-A complete, quadriplegic, cervical injuries involving C5-C7 of their spinal cord, after promising results were observed with the first cohort. The clinical trial is evaluating the safety and feasibility of using NSI-566 spinal cord-derived neural stem cells to repair cSCI. The amended protocol was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Institutional Review Board at the study site, University of California San Diego (UCSD) and can be found on  clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01772810). The first surgery for the second cohort was completed on March 28.

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