Category: Navigating Regulatory Landscapes in Latin America

Explores the regulatory requirements and best practices for conducting clinical trials in Latin America, focusing on medical devices and biopharmaceuticals.

  • Dr. Carlos Rojas, Bradford Hill: A Chile FIH Principal Investigator Is Not the CRO

    If you searched Dr. Carlos Rojas Bradford Hill, Carlos Rojas first-in-human Chile, or Sona THT principal investigator, you found a real investigator in the public record. Dr. Carlos Rojas is named by Sona Nanotech as the principal investigator of its first-in-human Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy study and as executive director of Bradford Hill in Santiago, Chile. A principal investigator is not the CRO.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the investigator and the site run the cases. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ISP authorization, Law 20.120 Ethical-Scientific Committee review, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package. Emailing the PI is a good way to test investigator interest. It is not a regulatory plan.

    What the public record says

    • Sona Nanotech, 16 June 2025: clinical trial agreement with Bradford Hill Investigación Clínica, Santiago, for an early feasibility study of THT in up to ten advanced melanoma patients; Dr. Carlos Rojas named principal investigator and Bradford Hill executive director.
    • Sona Nanotech, 20 October 2025: study completion; Dr. Rojas, quoted as executive director of the Bradford Hill Clinical Cancer Research Center, described rapid responses in patients who had exhausted standard immunotherapy.
    • ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06894407: industry sponsor Sona Nanotech Inc, DEVICE_FEASIBILITY, enrollment 10, single location Bradford Hill, Santiago, Chile; no CRO or collaborator listed; record updated 2 October 2026 to COMPLETED.

    The facility-level page is here: Bradford Hill, Santiago: the site is not the CRO.

    PI versus CRO

    Workstream Principal investigator First-in-Human CRO
    Clinical judgment and cases Yes Supports with protocol training and monitoring
    ISP file and amendments Signs what the site must sign Prepares, submits, and answers deficiencies
    Device import No Importer of record for the investigational device
    ISO 14155 monitoring and TMF Keeps source documents Monitors, reconciles, and closes out
    FDA 21 CFR 812.28 Provides site data Builds the foreign-data narrative for the U.S. submission

    FAQ

    Did bioaccess® work on Dr. Rojas’s Sona study?
    No. This page reports public sources only and claims no role in that study.

    Does bioaccess® only work in Chile?
    No. bioaccess® is the First-in-Human CRO for medical devices in Latin America since 2010, and it still runs clinical trials in Colombia as well as Chile, Panama, and the rest of the platform.

    Sources: Sona Nanotech press releases of 16 June 2025 and 20 October 2025; ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06894407. Public sources only.

  • LATAM Registration Holder vs Distributor: The License Should Not Be the Channel

    The sanitary registration holder should not be the distributor. Country-by-country IOR rules and why bioaccess® holds registrations under contract (in Colombia through its own Colombian entity; elsewhere with its local partner), without commercial leverage.

    The sanitary registration holder should not be the distributor. That is a design decision — not a branding preference — that determines whether a medical device manufacturer can change channels in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, or Argentina without redoing the file. This article explains, at the rule level, why the local legal figure and the commercial channel have to live in separate entities, and why the bioaccess® market access exists: to register and sustain an FDA-cleared or CE-marked device under contract (in Colombia through its own Colombian entity; elsewhere with its local partner), without turning the license into commercial leverage.

    What the holder is — and what it is not

    In Latin America the sanitary registration is issued in the name of a legal entity in the country. That entity is the titular, detentor, authorized representative, or holder, depending on the regulator. Technovigilance, responses to the authority, and — in several markets — importation fall on it. The distributor is a different function: it sells, invoices, and services. When both functions sit in the same company, the manufacturer does not have a channel. It has a partner that also owns the regulatory asset. Changing it means a rights assignment, a new registration, or both.

    An independent holder — an own subsidiary or a professional holder that does not commercialize the product — makes it possible to name, add, or remove importers and distributors as each regulation allows. bioaccess® sustains registrations under contract, for the manufacturer’s benefit (in Colombia through its own Colombian entity; elsewhere with its local partner), with assignment defined in the contract. The registration is not leverage. Country-by-country detail: Importer of Record in LATAM.

    Countries with multiple importers on a single registration

    These are the rules bioaccess® publishes in its IOR guide, with primary sources. They are not a consultancy ranking.

    • Mexico (COFEPRIS). The Mexico Registration Holder can name multiple distributors and importers on a single sanitary registration. That is why an independent holder is useful and a distributor-holder is risky. Equivalence pathway for devices already authorized in a reference country (FDA, Health Canada, or Japan); CE marking alone does not qualify. See Mexico — COFEPRIS.
    • Colombia (INVIMA). INVIMA expressly contemplates “one holder with multiple importers.” A Colombian legal face is required and, in practice, an importer with CCAA. The manufacturer does not have to give away title to the first commercializer. See Colombia — INVIMA.
    • Brazil (ANVISA). RDC 751/2022 names a single registration detentor. RDC 270/2019 allows that detentor to authorize multiple importers without re-registering the device. The foreign manufacturer cannot be the detentor. A BRH that is not the exclusive importer is the correct design. See Brazil — ANVISA.
    • Peru (DIGEMID). The holder must be an authorized droguería. Supreme Decree No. 001-2024-SA allows an independent Peru Registration Holder; other droguerías can obtain their own CRS. Again: holder ≠ commercial catalog.
    • Costa Rica (Ministry of Health). Under Decreto N° 34482-S, the Costa Rica Registration Holder (titular) is a distinct legal entity from the importer of record. Multiple importers can be named on one registration, and the titular controls who gets added or removed — the same “license is not the channel” model. The titular must be domiciled in Costa Rica (local entity with cédula jurídica and a Costa Rican digital signature); a foreign manufacturer cannot hold directly.
    • Chile (ISP), today. Most general devices fall outside the mandatory registration list; each importer processes its own CDA per shipment. The holder/authorized representative exists for the types that do register. The pending Fármacos II law will tighten the framework. See Chile — ISP.

    Single registration-importer countries

    In these markets the first holder choice is structural because the holder is the importer, or because the regulation names a single local representative:

    • Argentina (ANMAT). The authorized representative is both holder and importer. One AAR per registration. Disposición 2318/2002 was repealed and replaced by Disposición 64/2025; the single-AAR-importer model remains the commercial fact. Changing AARs usually means re-registering. See Argentina — ANMAT.
    • Ecuador (ARCSA). The certificate is issued in the holder’s name, an Ecuadorian company; a single holder (Resolution ARCSA-DE-026-2016-YMIH, as amended by ARCSA-DE-2023-033-AKRG).
    • El Salvador (SRS). Since August 7, 2024 the Superintendencia de Regulación Sanitaria (successor to DNM) regulates devices; a single local legal representative per registration.
    • Panama (DNDM / MINSA), Dominican Republic (DIGEMAPS), Paraguay (DINAVISA) and several Central American and Caribbean markets: single authorized representative model. Uruguay is not currently in bioaccess®’s published coverage.

    The lesson is not “avoid local consultants.” The lesson is: in a single-IOR market, hosting under a professional holder’s own licenses (or bioaccess®’s entity) is what keeps the channel in the manufacturer’s hands. In a multiple-importer market, the same principle applies — only the mistake shows up later, when the first distributor blocks the second.

    What the bioaccess® service includes — and what we don’t invent

    bioaccess® registers and sustains devices already authorized by FDA (510(k)/PMA) or with CE marking. The service covers the sanitary registration, the holder / importer of record (in Colombia through its own Colombian entity; elsewhere with its local partner), and certified translations into Spanish or Portuguese (sworn where Brazil and Argentina require it). Pricing is two-part pricing: a one-time registration fee per country by device class, then a lower annual holder fee from year 2 (published for Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Argentina on the rate card). Public coverage is 19 Latin American and Caribbean markets; there are country pages for Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile. There are no invented prices in this article, no client lists, no third-party emails.

    Two line items are billed separately because no credible party can flatten them: the BGMP plant audit in Brazil and the telecom/EMC-RF homologation for wireless devices. bioaccess® manages them and bills at supplier cost + 20% G&A, per the market access page.

    bioaccess® is not the “single-country holder that also distributes.” It is the multi-country holder that is not the distributor. If the commercial plan is a single market and a local holder with its own entity is enough, that local holder is a valid product. If the plan is multiple seals under the same assignment doctrine, the multi-country holder is the product that matches the rule — not the first result for “registro sanitario + [country].”

    Next step: bioaccess® market access, the importer of record guide, or request a registration quote.

  • Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (UNIMEP): The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 facility pull (29 September 2026) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current rules from Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, ANVISA), the ethics committees, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example National Clinical Trial (NCT) identifiers those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator (PI). We do not claim Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (UNIMEP) as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba first-in-human, UNIMEP clinical trial, Metodista Piracicaba device study, or “go direct Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (UNIMEP),” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (UNIMEP) in Piracicaba, Brazil, is a real named university-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. No separate live university-string page for UNIMEP exists yet. It is not a first-in-human (FIH) medical-device contract research organization (CRO), and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the university campus is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, the research ethics committee (Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa, CEP) / National Research Ethics Commission (CONEP), investigational import, clinical trial insurance placement with a licensed carrier (the CRO is not the insurance carrier), ISO 14155 (the International Organization for Standardization standard for clinical investigation of medical devices) monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, section 812.28) package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the university campus still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named UNIMEP university string in Piracicaba. It is DISTINCT from Piracicaba Dental School / Unicamp, a separately named dental-school campus of a different university in the same city. Sharing Piracicaba is not a license to collapse them. This is the whole university string, not a lab or school subunit of a university that already has a live page.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the facility, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On a 29 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull (all study types; all years), this campus string sits here:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs returned by a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull on 29 September 2026 for the facility strings listed below, restricted to locations in Piracicaba, Brazil. ALL counts every registered study type; the interventional and DEVICE counts are subsets of ALL. Alias spellings are counted once per NCT ID. We do not combine counts across separate campuses or other cities. We do not invent unpublished CMS IDs. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies.

    • Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (Piracicaba, Brazil) — registry strings counted: “Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba”; “Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (UNIMEP)”. ALL studies n=9; interventional n=9; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT01484834, NCT01786681, NCT01841385.

    Aliases including UNIMEP are counted once per NCT ID for Piracicaba locations.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this university campus as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba finds ALL n=9 (DEVICE n=1) without finding ANVISA. A named university campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named university campus can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the university campus can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the university campus is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under ANVISA Collegiate Board Resolution (RDC) 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: investigator’s brochure (IB), protocol, informed consent form (ICF), insurance, good manufacturing practice (GMP) evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at UNIMEP is not a Piracicaba Dental School / Unicamp file and is not an ANVISA file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. The CRO coordinates the policy with a licensed insurer; the CRO is not the insurance carrier. We will not invent a campus-only premium or rate here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, electronic data capture (EDC), serious adverse event (SAE) reporting, and the trial master file (TMF). The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after good clinical practice (GCP) / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site master services agreement (MSA) does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANVISA actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Brazil: combined ethics + ANVISA typically 6–10 weeks under Law 14874 and RDC 837/2023; CEPs capped at 30 business days; published per-patient range $20,000–$35,000. Trial authorization and later market registration are separate workstreams.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANVISA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See outside-the-United-States (OUS) FIH data and the FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

    Not a critique of the university

    Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba is a serious named Brazilian university campus on the public registry. ALL n=9 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANVISA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Submission (Pre-Sub), IDE, 510(k) premarket notification, De Novo request, premarket approval (PMA), or humanitarian device exemption (HDE) — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. In Panama and Colombia alike, ethics timing depends on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (UNIMEP) directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The university campus can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANVISA applicant, importer of record, insurance coordinator, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this university campus. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Piracicaba Dental School (Unicamp)?

    No. Piracicaba Dental School (Unicamp) is a distinct Unicamp dental-school campus already published. This page is the UNIMEP university string only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT01484834?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Piracicaba sibling (do not merge): Piracicaba Dental School.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Centro Paulista de Oncologia São Paulo: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 facility pull (29 September 2026) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current rules from Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, ANVISA), the ethics committees, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example National Clinical Trial (NCT) identifiers those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator (PI). We do not claim Centro Paulista de Oncologia São Paulo as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Centro Paulista de Oncologia Sao Paulo first-in-human, Centro Paulista de Oncologia clinical trial, CPO Sao Paulo device study, or “go direct Centro Paulista de Oncologia São Paulo,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Centro Paulista de Oncologia in São Paulo, Brazil, is a real named clinic-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human (FIH) medical-device contract research organization (CRO), and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the clinic is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, the research ethics committee (Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa, CEP) / National Research Ethics Commission (CONEP), investigational import, clinical trial insurance placement with a licensed carrier (the CRO is not the insurance carrier), ISO 14155 (the International Organization for Standardization standard for clinical investigation of medical devices) monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, section 812.28) package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the clinic still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named São Paulo Centro Paulista de Oncologia campus. It is DISTINCT from Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, Oncoclínicas Rio de Janeiro, Núcleo de Oncologia da Bahia Salvador, and other oncology strings. Sharing São Paulo or Oncologia is not a license to collapse them.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the facility, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On a 29 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull (all study types; all years), this campus string sits here:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs returned by a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull on 29 September 2026 for the facility strings listed below, restricted to locations in São Paulo, Brazil. ALL counts every registered study type; the interventional and DEVICE counts are subsets of ALL. Alias spellings are counted once per NCT ID. We do not combine counts across separate campuses or other cities. We do not invent unpublished CMS IDs. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies.

    • Centro Paulista de Oncologia (São Paulo, Brazil) — registry strings counted: “Centro Paulista de Oncologia”. ALL studies n=9; interventional n=4; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT01478269, NCT03151629, NCT03942497.

    Counted once per NCT ID for São Paulo locations; 5 of the 9 are observational.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this clinic as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Centro Paulista de Oncologia in São Paulo finds ALL n=9 (DEVICE n=1) without finding ANVISA. A named clinic campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named clinic can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the clinic can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the clinic is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under ANVISA Collegiate Board Resolution (RDC) 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: investigator’s brochure (IB), protocol, informed consent form (ICF), insurance, good manufacturing practice (GMP) evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at Centro Paulista de Oncologia is not a Beneficência Portuguesa file and is not an ANVISA file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. The CRO coordinates the policy with a licensed insurer; the CRO is not the insurance carrier. We will not invent a campus-only premium or rate here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, electronic data capture (EDC), serious adverse event (SAE) reporting, and the trial master file (TMF). The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after good clinical practice (GCP) / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site master services agreement (MSA) does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANVISA actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Brazil: combined ethics + ANVISA typically 6–10 weeks under Law 14874 and RDC 837/2023; CEPs capped at 30 business days; published per-patient range $20,000–$35,000. Trial authorization and later market registration are separate workstreams.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANVISA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See outside-the-United-States (OUS) FIH data and the FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

    Not a critique of the clinic

    Centro Paulista de Oncologia is a serious named São Paulo campus on the public registry. ALL n=9 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANVISA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Submission (Pre-Sub), IDE, 510(k) premarket notification, De Novo request, premarket approval (PMA), or humanitarian device exemption (HDE) — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics timing in Panama and Colombia follows each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Centro Paulista de Oncologia São Paulo directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The clinic can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANVISA applicant, importer of record, insurance coordinator, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this clinic. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo?

    No. Beneficência Portuguesa is a distinct São Paulo campus string. This page is Centro Paulista de Oncologia only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT01478269?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. São Paulo sibling (do not merge): Laboratory of Phototherapy São Paulo.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF): The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 facility pull (29 September 2026) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current rules from Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, ANVISA), the ethics committees, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example National Clinical Trial (NCT) identifiers those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator (PI). We do not claim Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Federal University of Juiz de Fora first-in-human, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora clinical trial, UFJF device study, or “go direct Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF),” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, UFJF) in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, is a real named university-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. No separate live university-string page for UFJF exists yet. It is not a first-in-human (FIH) medical-device contract research organization (CRO), and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the university campus is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, the research ethics committee (Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa, CEP) / National Research Ethics Commission (CONEP), investigational import, clinical trial insurance placement with a licensed carrier (the CRO is not the insurance carrier), ISO 14155 (the International Organization for Standardization standard for clinical investigation of medical devices) monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, section 812.28) package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the university campus still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named UFJF university string. It is DISTINCT from CMiP Juiz de Fora, a separately named clinic campus in the same city. Sharing Juiz de Fora is not a license to collapse them. This is the whole university string, not a lab or school subunit of a university that already has a live page.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the facility, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On a 29 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull (all study types; all years), this campus string sits here:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs returned by a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull on 29 September 2026 for the facility strings listed below, restricted to locations in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. ALL counts every registered study type; the interventional and DEVICE counts are subsets of ALL. Alias spellings are counted once per NCT ID. We do not combine counts across separate campuses or other cities. We do not invent unpublished CMS IDs. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies.

    • Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Juiz de Fora, Brazil) — registry strings counted: “Federal University of Juiz de Fora”; “Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora”; “federal University of Juiz de Fora”. ALL studies n=10; interventional n=10; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT00545103, NCT00943475, NCT01544439.

    Aliases (Federal University of Juiz de Fora; Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora) are counted once per NCT ID for Juiz de Fora locations.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this university campus as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Federal University of Juiz de Fora finds ALL n=10 (DEVICE n=1) without finding ANVISA. A named university campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named university campus can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the university campus can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the university campus is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under ANVISA Collegiate Board Resolution (RDC) 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: investigator’s brochure (IB), protocol, informed consent form (ICF), insurance, good manufacturing practice (GMP) evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at UFJF is not a CMiP file and is not an ANVISA file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. The CRO coordinates the policy with a licensed insurer; the CRO is not the insurance carrier. We will not invent a campus-only premium or rate here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, electronic data capture (EDC), serious adverse event (SAE) reporting, and the trial master file (TMF). The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after good clinical practice (GCP) / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site master services agreement (MSA) does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANVISA actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Brazil: combined ethics + ANVISA typically 6–10 weeks under Law 14874 and RDC 837/2023; CEPs capped at 30 business days; published per-patient range $20,000–$35,000. Trial authorization and later market registration are separate workstreams.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANVISA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See outside-the-United-States (OUS) FIH data and the FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

    Not a critique of the university

    Federal University of Juiz de Fora is a serious named Brazilian university campus on the public registry. ALL n=10 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANVISA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Submission (Pre-Sub), IDE, 510(k) premarket notification, De Novo request, premarket approval (PMA), or humanitarian device exemption (HDE) — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. In Panama and Colombia alike, ethics timing depends on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The university campus can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANVISA applicant, importer of record, insurance coordinator, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this university campus. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as CMiP Juiz de Fora?

    No. CMiP Juiz de Fora is a distinct clinic campus already published. This page is the UFJF university string only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT00545103?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Juiz de Fora sibling (do not merge): CMiP Juiz de Fora.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Hospital Churruca (Churruca-Visca) Buenos Aires: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANMAT File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 facility pull (29 September 2026) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current rules from Argentina’s National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Technology (Administración Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnología Médica, ANMAT), the ethics committees, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example National Clinical Trial (NCT) identifiers those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator (PI). We do not claim Hospital Churruca Buenos Aires as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Hospital Churruca Visca Buenos Aires first-in-human, Hospital Churruca clinical trial, Churruca-Visca device study, or “go direct Hospital Churruca Buenos Aires,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Hospital Churruca in Buenos Aires, Argentina (also registered as Hospital Churruca Visca and Hospital Churruca-Visca), is a real named hospital-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human (FIH) medical-device contract research organization (CRO), and it is not the operator of the ANMAT file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the hospital is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANMAT, accredited ethics, investigational import, clinical trial insurance placement with a licensed carrier (the CRO is not the insurance carrier), ISO 14155 (the International Organization for Standardization standard for clinical investigation of medical devices) monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, section 812.28) package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the hospital still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Buenos Aires Hospital Churruca / Churruca-Visca campus. It is DISTINCT from Hospital General de Agudos Dr. Cosme Argerich, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and other Buenos Aires campuses already published. Sharing Buenos Aires is not a license to collapse them.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the facility, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On a 29 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull (all study types; all years), this campus string sits here:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs returned by a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull on 29 September 2026 for the facility strings listed below, restricted to locations in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ALL counts every registered study type; the interventional and DEVICE counts are subsets of ALL. Alias spellings are counted once per NCT ID. We do not combine counts across separate campuses or other cities. We do not invent unpublished CMS IDs. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies.

    • Hospital Churruca (Buenos Aires, Argentina) — registry strings counted: “Hospital Churruca”; “Hospital Churruca – Visca”; “Hospital Churruca Visca”; “Hospital Churruca-Visca”. ALL studies n=10; interventional n=9; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT00026338, NCT00036647, NCT00040183.

    Aliases are counted once per NCT ID for Buenos Aires locations; 1 of the 10 are observational.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Hospital Churruca in Buenos Aires finds ALL n=10 (DEVICE n=1) without finding ANMAT. A named hospital campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named hospital can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the hospital can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the hospital is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANMAT. Argentina’s national medicines and devices authority (Administración Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnología Médica) is the file a sponsor actually needs. A hallway conversation on this campus is not that file. A published statutory target on the trial side is 90 business days and the clock pauses for RFIs. Trial authorization and commercial registro are separate petitions. A hallway conversation at Hospital Churruca is not an Argerich file and is not an ANMAT file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. The CRO coordinates the policy with a licensed insurer; the CRO is not the insurance carrier. We will not invent a campus-only premium or rate here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, electronic data capture (EDC), serious adverse event (SAE) reporting, and the trial master file (TMF). The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after good clinical practice (GCP) / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site master services agreement (MSA) does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANMAT actually works (the short version)

    Use live bioaccess® Argentina / ANMAT pages for the full pathway. Trial authorization and commercial registro are different petitions. Do not put both on one Gantt labeled “Argentina.” A published statutory target on the trial side is on the order of 90 business days and pauses for RFIs; ask for a protocol-specific calendar rather than treating an NCT row as start-up.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANMAT clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See outside-the-United-States (OUS) FIH data and the FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Hospital Churruca is a serious named Buenos Aires campus on the public registry. ALL n=10 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, investigator’s brochure (IB), informed consent form (ICF), insurance, and the ANMAT / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Submission (Pre-Sub), IDE, 510(k) premarket notification, De Novo request, premarket approval (PMA), or humanitarian device exemption (HDE) — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics timing in Panama and Colombia follows each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Hospital Churruca Buenos Aires directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The hospital can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANMAT applicant, importer of record, insurance coordinator, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires or other CABA hospitals?

    No. Those are distinct Buenos Aires campus pages when live. This page is Hospital Churruca / Churruca-Visca only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT00026338?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Argentina sibling: other Buenos Aires campus pages on the bioaccess® blog.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Universidad Católica del Maule Talca: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ISP File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 facility pull (29 September 2026) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current rules from Chile’s Public Health Institute (Instituto de Salud Pública, ISP), the ethics committees, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example National Clinical Trial (NCT) identifiers those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator (PI). We do not claim Universidad Católica del Maule Talca as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Universidad Catolica del Maule Talca first-in-human, Universidad Católica del Maule clinical trial, UCM Talca device study, or “go direct Universidad Católica del Maule Talca,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Universidad Católica del Maule in Talca, Chile (including the Campus San Miguel spelling on the registry), is a real named university-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. No separate live university-string page for this institution exists yet. It is not a first-in-human (FIH) medical-device contract research organization (CRO), and it is not the operator of the ISP file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the university campus is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ISP, accredited ethics, investigational import, clinical trial insurance placement with a licensed carrier (the CRO is not the insurance carrier), ISO 14155 (the International Organization for Standardization standard for clinical investigation of medical devices) monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, section 812.28) package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the university campus still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Talca Universidad Católica del Maule university string. It is DISTINCT from Centro de Investigación del Maule Talca, from Hospital Clínico Universidad Católica Santiago (CMS — Hospital Clínico Universidad Católica), and from other Maule or Católica campuses. Sharing Talca or Católica is not a license to collapse them. This is the whole university string, not a lab or school subunit of a university that already has a live page.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the facility, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On a 29 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull (all study types; all years), this campus string sits here:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs returned by a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull on 29 September 2026 for the facility strings listed below, restricted to locations in Talca, Chile. ALL counts every registered study type; the interventional and DEVICE counts are subsets of ALL. Alias spellings are counted once per NCT ID. We do not combine counts across separate campuses or other cities. We do not invent unpublished CMS IDs. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies.

    • Universidad Católica del Maule (Talca, Chile) — registry strings counted: “Universidad Catolica del Maule”; “Universidad Católica del Maule”; “Universidad Católica del Maule – Campus San Miguel”. ALL studies n=10; interventional n=9; DEVICE n=2. Example NCT IDs: NCT02692911, NCT04251728, NCT05456282.

    Aliases including Campus San Miguel are counted once per NCT ID for Talca locations; 1 of the 10 are observational.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this university campus as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Universidad Católica del Maule in Talca finds ALL n=10 (DEVICE n=2) without finding ISP. A named university campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named university campus can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the university campus can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the university campus is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ISP. Instituto de Salud Pública (ISP) authorizes studies and investigational-device import in Chile. Live Chile blogs already put a typical ISP review in a band of about 30 business days. Commercial ISP registration (30–90 days) is a different file. An Ethical-Scientific Committee under Law 20.120 still has to sit. A hallway conversation on this campus is not that stack. We will not invent PAHO/WHO Level 4 standing for ISP. A hallway conversation at Universidad Católica del Maule is not a Centro de Investigación del Maule file and is not an ISP file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. The CRO coordinates the policy with a licensed insurer; the CRO is not the insurance carrier. We will not invent a campus-only premium or rate here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, electronic data capture (EDC), serious adverse event (SAE) reporting, and the trial master file (TMF). The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after good clinical practice (GCP) / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site master services agreement (MSA) does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ISP actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Chile. Instituto de Salud Pública (ISP) authorizes studies and investigational-device import. Live Chile blogs already put a typical ISP review in a band of about 30 business days. Commercial ISP registration in a 30–90 day band is a different file — do not put trial authorization and commercial registro on one Gantt labeled “Chile.” An Ethical-Scientific Committee under Law 20.120 still has to sit. We will not invent PAHO/WHO Level 4 standing for ISP on this page.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ISP clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See outside-the-United-States (OUS) FIH data and the FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

    Not a critique of the university

    Universidad Católica del Maule is a serious named Talca campus on the public registry. ALL n=10 and DEVICE n=2 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, investigator’s brochure (IB), informed consent form (ICF), insurance, and the ISP / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Submission (Pre-Sub), IDE, 510(k) premarket notification, De Novo request, premarket approval (PMA), or humanitarian device exemption (HDE) — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics review in both Panama and Colombia runs on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Universidad Católica del Maule Talca directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The university campus can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ISP applicant, importer of record, insurance coordinator, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this university campus. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Centro de Investigación del Maule Talca?

    No. Centro de Investigación del Maule Talca is a distinct Talca research-center page already published. This page is the Universidad Católica del Maule university string only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT02692911?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Talca sibling (do not merge): Centro de Investigación del Maule Talca.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina (São José): The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 facility pull (29 September 2026) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current rules from Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, ANVISA), the ethics committees, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example National Clinical Trial (NCT) identifiers those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator (PI). We do not claim Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina first-in-human, ICSC Sao Jose clinical trial, Instituto Cardiologia Santa Catarina device study, or “go direct Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina in São José, Santa Catarina, Brazil, is a real named hospital-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human (FIH) medical-device contract research organization (CRO), and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the hospital is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, the research ethics committee (Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa, CEP) / National Research Ethics Commission (CONEP), investigational import, clinical trial insurance placement with a licensed carrier (the CRO is not the insurance carrier), ISO 14155 (the International Organization for Standardization standard for clinical investigation of medical devices) monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, section 812.28) package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the hospital still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named São José Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina campus. It is DISTINCT from Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez (Mexico), and Florianópolis / Joinville campuses already published. Sharing the word Cardiologia or Santa Catarina is not a license to collapse them.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the facility, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On a 29 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull (all study types; all years), this campus string sits here:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs returned by a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull on 29 September 2026 for the facility strings listed below, restricted to locations in São José, Brazil. ALL counts every registered study type; the interventional and DEVICE counts are subsets of ALL. Alias spellings are counted once per NCT ID. We do not combine counts across separate campuses or other cities. We do not invent unpublished CMS IDs. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies.

    • Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina (São José, Brazil) — registry strings counted: “Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina”. ALL studies n=12; interventional n=11; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT01741558, NCT01754675, NCT02343276.

    Counted once per NCT ID for São José locations; 1 of the 12 are observational.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina in São José finds ALL n=12 (DEVICE n=1) without finding ANVISA. A named hospital campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named hospital can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the hospital can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the hospital is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under ANVISA Collegiate Board Resolution (RDC) 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: investigator’s brochure (IB), protocol, informed consent form (ICF), insurance, good manufacturing practice (GMP) evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina is not an Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul file and is not an ANVISA file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. The CRO coordinates the policy with a licensed insurer; the CRO is not the insurance carrier. We will not invent a campus-only premium or rate here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, electronic data capture (EDC), serious adverse event (SAE) reporting, and the trial master file (TMF). The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after good clinical practice (GCP) / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site master services agreement (MSA) does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANVISA actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Brazil: combined ethics + ANVISA typically 6–10 weeks under Law 14874 and RDC 837/2023; CEPs capped at 30 business days; published per-patient range $20,000–$35,000. Trial authorization and later market registration are separate workstreams.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANVISA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See outside-the-United-States (OUS) FIH data and the FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina is a serious named São José campus on the public registry. ALL n=12 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANVISA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Submission (Pre-Sub), IDE, 510(k) premarket notification, De Novo request, premarket approval (PMA), or humanitarian device exemption (HDE) — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. In Panama and Colombia alike, ethics timing depends on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The hospital can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANVISA applicant, importer of record, insurance coordinator, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul?

    No. That is a different state and a different campus string. This page is Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina in São José only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT01741558?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Brazil cardiology sibling (do not merge): PROCAPE Recife.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena Temuco: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ISP File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 facility pull (29 September 2026) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current rules from Chile’s Public Health Institute (Instituto de Salud Pública, ISP), the ethics committees, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example National Clinical Trial (NCT) identifiers those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator (PI). We do not claim Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena Temuco as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Hospital Hernan Henriquez Aravena Temuco first-in-human, Hospital Dr Hernán Henríquez Aravena clinical trial, Temuco hospital device study, or “go direct Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena Temuco,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena in Temuco, Chile, is a real named hospital-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov, registered under several accent and abbreviation spellings. It is not a first-in-human (FIH) medical-device contract research organization (CRO), and it is not the operator of the ISP file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the hospital is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ISP, accredited ethics, investigational import, clinical trial insurance placement with a licensed carrier (the CRO is not the insurance carrier), ISO 14155 (the International Organization for Standardization standard for clinical investigation of medical devices) monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, section 812.28) package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the hospital still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Temuco Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena campus. It is DISTINCT from Hospital Clínico Universidad de La Frontera Temuco strings, from Clínica Alemana Temuco, and from Santiago ISP-path campuses already published. Sharing Temuco or a regional health service is not a license to collapse them.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the facility, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On a 29 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull (all study types; all years), this campus string sits here:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs returned by a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull on 29 September 2026 for the facility strings listed below, restricted to locations in Temuco, Chile. ALL counts every registered study type; the interventional and DEVICE counts are subsets of ALL. Alias spellings are counted once per NCT ID. We do not combine counts across separate campuses or other cities. We do not invent unpublished CMS IDs. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies.

    • Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena (Temuco, Chile) — registry strings counted: “Hospital Dr Hernan Henriquez Aravena”; “Hospital Dr Hernán Henríquez Aravena”; “Hospital Dr. Hernan Henriquez Aravena”; “Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena”; “Hospital Hernan Henriquez Aravena”; “Hospital Hernán Henríquez Aravena”. ALL studies n=16; interventional n=11; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT00412893, NCT00413218, NCT00467857.

    Aliases are counted once per NCT ID for Temuco locations; 5 of the 16 are observational. We do not invent a combined Universidad de La Frontera count on this page.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena in Temuco finds ALL n=16 (DEVICE n=1) without finding ISP. A named hospital campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named hospital can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the hospital can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the hospital is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ISP. Instituto de Salud Pública (ISP) authorizes studies and investigational-device import in Chile. Live Chile blogs already put a typical ISP review in a band of about 30 business days. Commercial ISP registration (30–90 days) is a different file. An Ethical-Scientific Committee under Law 20.120 still has to sit. A hallway conversation on this campus is not that stack. We will not invent PAHO/WHO Level 4 standing for ISP. A hallway conversation at Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena is not a Universidad de La Frontera file and is not an ISP file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. The CRO coordinates the policy with a licensed insurer; the CRO is not the insurance carrier. We will not invent a campus-only premium or rate here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, electronic data capture (EDC), serious adverse event (SAE) reporting, and the trial master file (TMF). The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after good clinical practice (GCP) / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site master services agreement (MSA) does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ISP actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Chile. Instituto de Salud Pública (ISP) authorizes studies and investigational-device import. Live Chile blogs already put a typical ISP review in a band of about 30 business days. Commercial ISP registration in a 30–90 day band is a different file — do not put trial authorization and commercial registro on one Gantt labeled “Chile.” An Ethical-Scientific Committee under Law 20.120 still has to sit. We will not invent PAHO/WHO Level 4 standing for ISP on this page.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ISP clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See outside-the-United-States (OUS) FIH data and the FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena is a serious named Temuco campus on the public registry. ALL n=16 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, investigator’s brochure (IB), informed consent form (ICF), insurance, and the ISP / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Submission (Pre-Sub), IDE, 510(k) premarket notification, De Novo request, premarket approval (PMA), or humanitarian device exemption (HDE) — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. In Panama and Colombia alike, ethics timing depends on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena Temuco directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The hospital can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ISP applicant, importer of record, insurance coordinator, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Universidad de La Frontera Temuco?

    No. This page is the named Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena campus only. A university-string page is a different page if and when it is live.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT00412893?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Chile sibling (do not merge): Hospital Clínico San Borja Arriarán Santiago.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Western Medical Center (IMSS Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente) Guadalajara: The NCT Campus String Is Not the COFEPRIS File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 facility pull (29 September 2026) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current rules from Mexico’s Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios, COFEPRIS), the ethics committees, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example National Clinical Trial (NCT) identifiers those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator (PI). We do not claim Western Medical Center (IMSS CMNO) Guadalajara as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Western Medical Center IMSS Guadalajara first-in-human, Centro Medico Nacional de Occidente clinical trial, CMNO Guadalajara device study, or “go direct Western Medical Center (IMSS CMNO) Guadalajara,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Western Medical Center of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) in Guadalajara, Mexico — also registered as Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente and Centro Médico de Occidente-IMSS — is a real named hospital-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human (FIH) medical-device contract research organization (CRO), and it is not the operator of the COFEPRIS file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the hospital is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns COFEPRIS, accredited ethics, investigational import, clinical trial insurance placement with a licensed carrier (the CRO is not the insurance carrier), ISO 14155 (the International Organization for Standardization standard for clinical investigation of medical devices) monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, section 812.28) package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the hospital still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Guadalajara IMSS Western Medical Center / Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente campus. It is DISTINCT from Centro de Investigación Médica de Occidente in Zapopan, from Hospital Ángeles Andares Guadalajara, and from other IMSS strings in other cities. Sharing the word Occidente or Guadalajara is not a license to collapse them. The English Western Medical Center spelling and the Spanish CMNO spellings are the same Guadalajara campus counted once per NCT ID.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the facility, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On a 29 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull (all study types; all years), this campus string sits here:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs returned by a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull on 29 September 2026 for the facility strings listed below, restricted to locations in Guadalajara, Mexico. ALL counts every registered study type; the interventional and DEVICE counts are subsets of ALL. Alias spellings are counted once per NCT ID. We do not combine counts across separate campuses or other cities. We do not invent unpublished CMS IDs. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies.

    • Western Medical Center, Mexican Institute of Social Security (Guadalajara, Mexico) — registry strings counted: “Centro Medico Nacional de Occidente”; “Centro Medico de Occidente-IMSS”; “Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente”; “Western Medical Center, Mexican Institute of Social Security”. ALL studies n=20; interventional n=16; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT00026078, NCT00129142, NCT00336791.

    Aliases (Western Medical Center; Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente; Centro Médico de Occidente-IMSS) are counted once per NCT ID for Guadalajara locations; 4 of the 20 are observational.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Western Medical Center or Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente in Guadalajara finds ALL n=20 (DEVICE n=1) without finding COFEPRIS. A named hospital campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named hospital can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the hospital can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the hospital is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • COFEPRIS. COFEPRIS governs device investigations in Mexico. Ethics committee review comes first, then COFEPRIS review; bioaccess® confirms the calendar per protocol. A hallway conversation on this campus is not that file. A hallway conversation at CMNO Guadalajara is not a Zapopan Occidente research-center file and is not a COFEPRIS file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. The CRO coordinates the policy with a licensed insurer; the CRO is not the insurance carrier. We will not invent a campus-only premium or rate here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, electronic data capture (EDC), serious adverse event (SAE) reporting, and the trial master file (TMF). The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after good clinical practice (GCP) / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site master services agreement (MSA) does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How COFEPRIS actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Mexico and CRO in Mexico. Ethics committee review comes first, then COFEPRIS review; bioaccess® confirms the calendar per protocol. Keep trial clocks separate from registro sanitario (~30 working days on that hub). Eligibility of foreign data under 21 CFR 812.28 is not a guarantee of clearance.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not COFEPRIS clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See outside-the-United-States (OUS) FIH data and the FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Western Medical Center / Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente is a serious named Guadalajara IMSS campus on the public registry. ALL n=20 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, investigator’s brochure (IB), informed consent form (ICF), insurance, and the COFEPRIS / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Submission (Pre-Sub), IDE, 510(k) premarket notification, De Novo request, premarket approval (PMA), or humanitarian device exemption (HDE) — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics review in both Panama and Colombia runs on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Western Medical Center (IMSS CMNO) Guadalajara directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The hospital can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your COFEPRIS applicant, importer of record, insurance coordinator, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Centro de Investigación Médica de Occidente Zapopan?

    No. Centro de Investigación Médica de Occidente Zapopan is a distinct Zapopan page already published. This page is the Guadalajara IMSS Western Medical Center / CMNO campus only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT00026078?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Occidente sibling (do not merge): Centro de Investigación Médica de Occidente Zapopan.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®