Kuros Biosciences announces start of of randomized controlled trial of MagnetOs in spinal fusion
Study should further enhance competitive positioning of MagnetOs
Kuros announced that the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) in the Netherlands has obtained approval from its ethical committee to start an investigator-led multicenter study comparing MagnetOs with autologous bone in posterolateral spinal fusion.
The study is entitled “A Randomized Controlled Trial of MagnetOs® granules vs. Autograft in Instrumented Posterolateral Spinal Fusion”, with UMCU as principal investigator. UMCU’s Department of Orthopedics is one of the foremost orthopedic clinical research centers in the world. The primary objective is to demonstrate non-inferiority with regard to efficacy and safety of MagnetOs compared to the current gold standard, autograft, harvested from the patient’s own body, in instrumented posterolateral spinal fusion.
The first patients are expected to be enrolled in H2 2018.