Arch Biopartners Inc. announced that the Fraser Health Research Ethics Board has granted approval for the Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) to participate in Arch's ongoing Phase II trial evaluating LSALT peptide for the prevention and treatment of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI). With this ethics approval in place, the clinical team at RCH in New Westminster, British Columbia, will proceed to complete operational approvals, training, and site initiation prior to commencing patient enrollment. RCH will be the eighth site activated globally in the study and is expected to be the fourth site to recruit patients in Canada.
The University Health Network's Toronto General Hospital and the University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, continue to actively enroll new patients into the trial. Unity Health's St. Michael's Hospital has completed its preparatory steps and is awaiting final authorization from Clinical Trials Ontario (CTO) to proceed to site activation and patient enrollment.
The Arch team continues to evaluate additional sites in Canada and the U.S. to join the CS-AKI Phase II trial.
