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ENDRA Life Sciences Announces New Clinical Study Partnership with King’s College Hospital, London
Study to Bolster Clinical Evidence of Performance of Patented TAEUS® Ultrasound Device in NAFLD Patients as Early Product Commercialization in Europe
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nStudy to Bolster Clinical Evidence of Performance of Patented TAEUS® Ultrasound Device in NAFLD Patients as Early Product Commercialization in Europe Continues\n\n ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nENDRA Life Sciences Inc. (ENDRA) (NASDAQ: NDRA), a pioneer of enhanced ultrasound technologies, today announced that King’s College Hospital, London (KCH) is now partnering with ENDRA for a clinical study of ENDRA’s Thermo-Acoustic Enhanced Ultrasound (TAEUS®) device for assessing Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD).\n\n“We are thrilled that KCH, a teaching hospital that is world-renowned for pioneering research in liver disease management and transplantation, is evaluating TAEUS® as a tool to characterize NAFLD, a condition that impacts more than 1 billion people globally,” said ENDRA Life Sciences CEO Francois Michelon. “It’s an honor for ENDRA to partner with another leading NHS trust. We believe this new partnership further advances our commercial strategy as it provides the opportunity to demonstrate the potential clinical utility of TAEUS® and to build on the clinical foundation we have established to date.”\n\nThis represents the seventh clinical research partnership for ENDRA globally and is a natural progression from the feasibility study conducted by the Robarts Research Institute, which used healthy volunteers to establish the safety and efficacy of the TAEUS® technology. The data from the KCH study, along with other ongoing or to-be initiated studies, will be used to bolster the clinical evidence and further establish the clinical utility of the TAEUS® ultrasound device in patients with NAFLD. The study will be led by Dr. Ashley Barnabas, Consultant Hepatologist in the Liver Unit at King’s College Hospital.\n\n\"The current options to assess and monitor liver fat in NAFLD patients, namely MRI and liver biopsy, can be challenging to integrate into clinical practice. There is a pressing need for more practical tools to support and care for patients with this chronic condition,” said Dr. Barnabas.\n\nThe goals of the KCH study, include:\n\n\nComparing ENDRA’s TAEUS® liver device against a baseline measure of liver fat as determined by the current standard of care, MRI-PDFF (magnetic resonance imaging proton density fat fraction).\n\n\nScanning a target of 75 fatty liver patients to contribute additional diversity a...