Canada’s College Well being Community mentioned its Toronto Western Hospital could be the primary non-US web site 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 could be the “first and unique” web site for the trial in Canada, however didn’t say when it might start.
On Wednesday, Neuralink mentioned that it had obtained approval from regulators in Canada to launch medical trials for its machine in that nation.
“Well being Canada has accepted the launch of our first medical 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 in search of sufferers with Quadriplegia as a consequence of 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, akin to Synchron Inc., are recruiting for their very own future trials.
Neuralink’s first product goals to permit sufferers to regulate exterior units, akin to computer systems, by way of their ideas. Neuralink can be engaged on treating different situations akin to blindness, however that undertaking is additional away. Within the distant future, Musk has mentioned Neuralink might work with wholesome sufferers on capabilities akin to augmenting reminiscence.
Its first human affected person, Noland Arbaugh, was implanted with Neuralink’s machine earlier this yr, on the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.
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