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Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

New clinical site for pilot study of BrainGate Neural Interface System announced

Published in Law and Health Weekly, April 2nd, 2005

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc., (CYKN) (Cyberkinetics) announced the addition of RIC as a new clinical site for the BrainGate Neural Interface System pilot study.

Cyberkinetics received regulatory clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in March of 2004 to study the BrainGate Neural Interface System under an investigational device exemption (IDE). The first patient was enrolled through the Sargent Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island and has successfully been able to use his thoughts and the BrainGate System to demonstrate that the system can be used to operate a computer, environmental...

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