Canada’s College Well being Community mentioned its Toronto Western Hospital can be the primary non-US website of a trial for a tool created by Neuralink Corp., Elon Musk’s brain-implant firm.
“We’re extremely proud to be on the forefront of this analysis development in neurosurgery,” UHN Chief Govt Officer Kevin Smith mentioned in an announcement. He additionally mentioned UHN can be the “first and unique” website for the trial in Canada, however didn’t say when it will start.
On Wednesday, Neuralink mentioned that it had obtained approval from regulators in Canada to launch scientific trials for its system in that nation.
“Well being Canada has authorized the launch of our first scientific trial in Canada!” the corporate posted on X, the social media service additionally owned by Musk. “Recruitment is now open.”
Neuralink added that it was looking for sufferers with Quadriplegia attributable to ALS, also referred to as Lou Gehrig’s illness, or spinal wire harm.
Well being Canada did not instantly present a remark.
For months, Neuralink has been recruiting sufferers within the US, UK and Canada, with hyperlinks to a registry on its web site. Different corporations within the discipline, similar to Synchron Inc., are recruiting for their very own future trials.
Neuralink’s first product goals to permit sufferers to regulate exterior gadgets, similar to computer systems, by way of their ideas. Neuralink can also be engaged on treating different situations similar to blindness, however that venture is additional away. Within the distant future, Musk has mentioned Neuralink may work with wholesome sufferers on features similar to augmenting reminiscence.
Its first human affected person, Noland Arbaugh, was implanted with Neuralink’s system earlier this yr, on the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.
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