Medical device company iThera Medical announces that the second site in Germany has been initiated for the ongoing clinical study in the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project EUPHORIA. The project aims to further develop the company’s proprietary optoacoustic imaging technology and demonstrate its clinical value in the assessment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
The €2.3 million Horizon 2020 research project EUPHORIA (Enhancing Ultrasound and PHOtoacoustics for Recognition of Intestinal Abnormalities) led by iThera Medical aims to assess the ability of MSOT to measure disease activity in patients with IBD. Clinical validation of the diagnostic performance of the MSOT Acuity Echo investigational device is underway in a multicenter international study, with the Jena University Hospital (JUH) now added as the latest initiated site and the second site in Germany. JUH has already enrolled and successfully scanned the first patients with the MSOT Acuity Echo device. Two additional sites in Italy are slated for initiation in the coming weeks, with the project leaders expecting these sites to open within Q4/2021.
The initiation of new study sites will allow for faster patient recruitment to acquire data necessary for the clinical validation of the MSOT technology in the application of disease monitoring in IBD. Furthermore, iThera Medical will use the feedback from the various patient and investigator groups to guide the ongoing development of the MSOT technology to best benefit doctors and their patients.
We are excited to be part of this groundbreaking clinical study, which will assess a very promising and non-invasive new technology for IBD inflammatory status monitoring.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Stallmach, Director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine IV at JUH, and EUPHORIA’s principal investigator at the Jena study site
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