InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV) today announced that the Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, MO, is the fourth clinical site in the company’s on-going IDE pilot study of its Neuro-Spinal Scaffold in patients with acute spinal cord injury (SCI). Barnes-Jewish Hospital is the largest regional trauma center in St. Louis and is one of the largest clinical spine care practices for the United States. Paul Santiago, MD, an Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will be the study’s Principal Investigator at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Dr. Santiago said, “We look forward to participating in the evaluation of this novel treatment for acute spinal cord injury and hope that it we will be able to advance the treatment of patients with spinal cord injuries.”

Mark Perrin, InVivo Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are pleased that patient enrollment has begun and look forward to bringing more centers of excellence into our current pilot study. With Dr. Santiago and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital, we now have four sites that will be ready to enroll patients once we re-open enrollment. We have received IRB approval from two additional sites, which we will announce in the coming weeks after we complete the final administrative steps of site start-up.”

This is the company’s first clinical study of its investigational degradable polymer Neuro-Spinal Scaffold. The IDE pilot study has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is intended to capture preliminary safety and effectiveness data of the Neuro-Spinal Scaffold in five subjects with acute thoracic spinal cord injury. InVivo then expects to conduct a pivotal study to obtain FDA approval to commence commercialization under a Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE).

About InVivo Therapeutics

InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. is a pioneering 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, ScD., Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Joseph P. Vacanti, MD, who then was at Boston Children’s Hospital and now is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2011 the company earned the David S. Apple Award from the American Spinal Injury Association for its outstanding contribution to spinal cord injury medicine. The publicly-traded company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. For more details, visit www.invivotherapeutics.com.

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