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  • Ecuador ARCSA Clinical Trial Coverage: The Certificate Is Not the CRO

    General information, not insurance, legal, or regulatory advice. Confirm current ARCSA ethics, import, and coverage rules with qualified advisers and a licensed broker. We do not invent premiums, limits, or carrier rates on this page. We do not claim a named carrier as a signed bioaccess® partner here. No patient data. No unpublished client. Always bioaccess®.

    If you searched Ecuador ARCSA clinical trial coverage, buy trial insurance Ecuador device FIH, ARCSA liability, you were looking for someone who would write international clinical-trial coverage for an investigational device. bioaccess® is a first-in-human medical-device CRO. We are not an insurance carrier. We do not underwrite policies. We do not sell premiums. We do not quote a binder. OUS and Latin American device trials still need trial-specific liability — local admitted paper, a master with local certificates, or both. We run the trial under ISO 14155. We can introduce a specialty carrier. That introduction is not a signed partnership on this page, and it is not a quote.

    Ecuador is a public bioaccess® geography (ARCSA on llms.txt; live hub at clinical-trials-ecuador). That is enough to answer the search. It is not enough to invent an Ecuadorian premium or a week-count we have not published. Confirm current ethics and coverage rules with qualified advisers. bioaccess® is not the carrier.

    This page is separate from Clinical Trial Insurance in Latin America: What Sponsors Need to Know Before Study Start. That hub is the country-snapshot checklist (territory, named insureds, language, runoff). This page’s topic: ARCSA / Ecuadorian ethics insurance exhibit. Same operator: the CRO runs the trial; a carrier writes the paper.

    The CRO is not the carrier

    Founders type “buy clinical trial insurance” and land on CROs, brokers, and hospital MSAs in the same result set. Those are three jobs:

    • Carrier. Underwrites participant injury, medical expenses for trial-related events, defense, and site/investigator indemnification — if the form matches the protocol. A hallway conversation is not a binder.
    • Broker. Places the form, translations, additional-insured endorsements, and territory wording. Licensed where the paper has to sit.
    • CRO. Protocol, IB, ICF, ethics/ARCSA packet, importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America, ISO 14155 monitoring, SAE clock, TMF, and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE. Eligibility of foreign data is not FDA clearance.

    Mixing those jobs is how a startup buys a U.S. product-liability rider, emails a PDF to an ethics committee, and gets a resubmission. Product liability is not clinical-trial liability. A site’s institutional policy is not the sponsor’s trial form.

    Use the live Ecuador hub, not a new clock

    See Clinical Trials in Ecuador. This page does not repeat the LATAM insurance hub or site pages. ARCSA is the national medicines/devices file named on public bioaccess® copy. Ethics still wants financial responsibility for participant injury in the packet. A hallway conversation in Quito is not that exhibit.

    Country 2 is not a second Ecuadorian Gantt labeled insurance

    If Ecuador is already on the protocol, the liability exhibit has to name Ecuador. If the founder is adding Ecuador after Panama, that is an endorsement, not a new CRO SKU. See the sibling page on adding a second LATAM country. We will not invent an ARCSA insurance minimum.

    What ethics and ARCSA actually ask for

    Use the live Ecuador country page. We will not invent unpublished ARCSA insurance tariffs or ethics week-counts here. Ask the reviewing body and a licensed broker what certificate they will stamp.

    Insurance documentation is usually in the ethics / ARCSA packet, not a post-approval formality. Typical asks (confirm with the reviewing body — we will not invent a pan-regional limit):

    • Territory that names every country on the protocol.
    • Site and principal investigator as additional insureds when the committee requires it.
    • Policy period through last-patient last-visit plus the protocol follow-up window.
    • Spanish (or Portuguese) certificate or notarized summary when the committee asks for it.
    • Claims-notice language that can sit next to the SAE clock, not against it.

    We will not invent a per-participant dollar figure on this page. Individual ethics committees set thresholds. Ask the carrier and the CRO together, before the packet goes in.

    Local policy vs controlled master

    A master that excludes Ecuador fails the packet. An Ecuador-only local policy that cannot later add Panama or Chile is a protocol constraint. New FIH execution is not recommended in Colombia on the public line; holder/IOR there remains. We pick the country the device needs.

    A “controlled master” that never issues a local certificate is a slide, not a submission. A local-only policy that cannot travel to a second Latin American country is a one-country trap. The operator chooses geography for the device; the paper has to follow the protocol, not the other way around.

    What bioaccess® still owns after you have a quote

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. Ecuador is on the public countries hub.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, and the ethics / ARCSA packet with insurance documents in the same stack — not a parallel founder email.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability. A binder does not import the investigational product.
    4. Site activation: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. A site MSA that “includes insurance” is still not ISO 14155 monitoring.
    5. Introducing a specialty carrier when the founder does not already have admitted paper. Introduction is not a signed partnership on this page. We do not invent rates.

    The firm was founded in 2010. Published first-in-human device case studies show FIH execution with import and insurance as workstreams — not as bioaccess® underwriting. We will not invent a premium from those pages.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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™.

    A Bogotá or Floridablanca ethics packet still wants financial responsibility for participant injury. That does not flip the public line. bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia. We pick the country the device needs.

    Frequently asked questions

    Does bioaccess® sell clinical trial insurance?

    No. We are the FIH CRO. We can introduce a carrier. We do not underwrite. We do not bind. We do not invent a rate card on this page.

    Is this the same article as the LATAM insurance hub?

    No. The hub is Clinical Trial Insurance in Latin America: What Sponsors Need to Know Before Study Start. This page is ARCSA / Ecuadorian ethics insurance exhibit.

    Can a U.S. product-liability policy cover a LATAM device FIH?

    Only if the territory clause and the trial-liability form actually name the countries and the investigational activity. Many U.S. GL/PL policies exclude OUS research. Get it in writing from the carrier. A verbal “we’re global” is not an ethics exhibit.

    Did bioaccess® underwrite the $10M policy mentioned on public pages?

    No. Public copy describes FIH execution that included placing a $10M clinical-trial insurance policy as an operational workstream. That is CRO coordination, not underwriting. It is not a SKU. It is not a rate we invent here.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was Ecuador ARCSA clinical trial coverage, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Ecuador operator: Clinical Trials in Ecuador. Sibling hub: Clinical Trial Insurance in Latin America: What Sponsors Need to Know Before Study Start.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Federal University of Pelotas: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) 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 ANVISA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Federal University of Pelotas as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Federal University of Pelotas first-in-human, UFPel clinical trial, Universidade Federal de Pelotas CRO, or “go direct Federal University of Pelotas,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Federal University of Pelotas in Pelotas, Brazil, is a real named university-hospital string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device 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, CEP / CONEP, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 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 Pelotas UFPel campus. It is not UFPB João Pessoa (separate page), not UFU Uberlândia, not HCPA / UFRGS Porto Alegre (already published), and not UNICAMP (already published). Sharing “Federal University” is not a license to collapse them. Pelotas is not Porto Alegre. Pelotas is not João Pessoa.

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

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Federal University of Pelotas (Pelotas, Brazil) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=11; DEVICE n=5. Example NCT IDs: NCT02327286, NCT02788630, NCT03087422.

    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 “UFPel first-in-human” finds ALL n=11 (DEVICE n=5) 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 RDC 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: IB, protocol, ICF, insurance, GMP evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation in Pelotas is not a João Pessoa 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. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the 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 GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site 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 OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Federal University of Pelotas is a serious named campus on the public registry. ALL n=11 is registry volume, not a punchline. We do not invent a DEVICE n beyond 5. 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-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or 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, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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 Pelotas 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, insurer, 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 UFPB João Pessoa or UFU Uberlândia?

    No. UFPB has its own page. UFU Uberlândia has its own page. This page is UFPel only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT02327286?

    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 sibling (do not merge): UFPB João Pessoa.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • CIMAB Torreón: The NCT Campus String Is Not the COFEPRIS File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) 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 COFEPRIS, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim CIMAB Torreón as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched CIMAB Torreon first-in-human, CIMAB SA de CV clinical trial, CIMAB CRO Mexico, or “go direct CIMAB Torreón,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. CIMAB S.A. de C.V. in Torreón, Mexico, is a real named research-site string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the COFEPRIS file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the site is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns COFEPRIS, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 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 site still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Torreón CIMAB campus. It is not Arké SMO Veracruz, not Investigación y Biomedicina de Chihuahua, not Instituto Jalisciense, and not Scientia Chihuahua (already published). Sharing northern Mexico is not a license to collapse them. Torreón is not Veracruz. Torreón is not Chihuahua.

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

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • CIMAB SA de CV (Torreón, Mexico) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=11; DEVICE n=0. Example NCT IDs: NCT03574597, NCT03616912, NCT04433585. Punctuation / numbered aliases listed separately (S.A. de C.V. ALL n=5; 4840076 ALL n=1) — not combined.

    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 site as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching “CIMAB Torreón first-in-human” finds ALL n=11 (DEVICE n=0) without finding COFEPRIS. A named research site is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

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

    A named site 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 site 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 site is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • COFEPRIS. COFEPRIS governs device investigations in Mexico. Ethics typically 4–6 weeks and COFEPRIS review typically 4–8 weeks after ethics on the live Mexico hub; combined start-up is cited there as a 2.8-month median. A hallway conversation on this campus is not that file. A hallway conversation at CIMAB is not an Arké SMO 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. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the 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 GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site 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 typically 4–6 weeks and COFEPRIS review typically 4–8 weeks after ethics on the live Mexico hub; combined start-up is cited there as a 2.8-month median. 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 OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    CIMAB is a serious named Torreón research site on the public registry. ALL n=11 is registry volume, not a punchline. We do not invent a DEVICE n. 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 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-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or 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, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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 CIMAB Torreón directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The site can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your COFEPRIS applicant, importer of record, insurer, 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 site. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Arké SMO Veracruz?

    No. Arké SMO Veracruz has its own page. This page is CIMAB Torreón only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT03574597?

    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. Mexico sibling (do not merge): Arké SMO Veracruz.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio Fortaleza: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) 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 ANVISA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio Fortaleza as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Hospital Universitario Walter Cantidio first-in-human, HUWC UFC Fortaleza clinical trial, Walter Cantidio CRO, or “go direct Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio Fortaleza,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. HUWC / Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio (Universidade Federal do Ceará) in Fortaleza, Brazil, is a real named university-hospital string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the university hospital is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, CEP / CONEP, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 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 hospital still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Fortaleza Walter Cantídio / UFC campus. It is not Hospital de Messejana Fortaleza, not Hospital Santa Izabel Salvador, not UFPB João Pessoa (separate page), and not Clementino/UFRJ (not covered on this page). Sharing Fortaleza is not a license to collapse them. Messejana is not HUWC.

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

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • HUWC – UFC – Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio – Universidade Federal do Ceará (Fortaleza, Brazil) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=11; DEVICE n=0. Example NCT IDs: NCT02760407, NCT02760433, NCT03120949.

    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 hospital as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching “Walter Cantídio first-in-human” finds ALL n=11 (DEVICE n=0) without finding ANVISA. A named university hospital 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 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 university 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 university hospital is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under RDC 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: IB, protocol, ICF, insurance, GMP evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at HUWC is not a Messejana 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. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the 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 GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site 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 OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio is a serious named Fortaleza university hospital on the public registry. ALL n=11 is registry volume, not a punchline. We do not invent a DEVICE n. 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-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or 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, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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 Universitário Walter Cantídio Fortaleza directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The university 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, insurer, 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 hospital. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Messejana Fortaleza?

    No. Hospital de Messejana has its own page. This page is HUWC / Walter Cantídio only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT02760407?

    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. Fortaleza sibling (do not merge): Messejana Fortaleza.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Clínica Mayo Tucumán: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANMAT File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) 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 ANMAT, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Clínica Mayo Tucumán as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Clinica Mayo Tucuman first-in-human, Clinica Mayo Cruz Blanca Tucuman clinical trial, Mayo Tucuman CRO, or “go direct Clínica Mayo Tucumán,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Clínica Mayo de Urgencias Médicas Cruz Blanca S.R.L. in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, is a real named clinic string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANMAT file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the clinic is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANMAT, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 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 Tucumán Clínica Mayo campus. It is not Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo Lima (already published — different country, different “Mayo”), not CIPADI Godoy Cruz (separate page), not Centro de Estudios Reumatológicos Tucumán (already published as a Tucumán rheumatology string), and not Sanatorio Allende Córdoba (already published). Sharing Tucumán is not a license to collapse them. Tucumán is not Lima.

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

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Clínica Mayo de Urgencias Médicas Cruz Blanca S.R.L (San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=12; DEVICE n=0. Example NCT IDs: NCT04255433, NCT05463744, NCT05540522. Unaccented / truncated aliases listed separately — not combined. A separate NCT string “Clinica Mayo de UMCB” (ALL n=11) is not this page.

    Counts for UMCB are kept separate.

    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 “Clínica Mayo Tucumán first-in-human” finds ALL n=12 (DEVICE n=0) without finding ANMAT. A named clinic 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:

    • 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 Clínica Mayo Tucumán is not a CIPADI 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. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the 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 GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site 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 OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Clínica Mayo Tucumán is a serious named Tucumán clinic on the public registry. ALL n=12 is registry volume, not a punchline. We do not invent a DEVICE n. 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 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-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or 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, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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 Clínica Mayo Tucumán 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 ANMAT applicant, importer of record, insurer, 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 CIPADI or Dos de Mayo Lima?

    No. CIPADI Godoy Cruz has its own page. Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo Lima is already published and is Peru. This page is Clínica Mayo Tucumán only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT04255433?

    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: CIPADI Godoy Cruz.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • CIPADI Godoy Cruz: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANMAT File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) 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 ANMAT, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim CIPADI Godoy Cruz as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched CIPADI Godoy Cruz first-in-human, Centro Integral Prevencion Atencion Diabetes Mendoza clinical trial, CIPADI CRO, or “go direct CIPADI Godoy Cruz,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. CIPADI – Centro Integral de Prevencion y Atencion en Diabetes in Godoy Cruz, Argentina, is a real named diabetes-center string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANMAT file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the center is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANMAT, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 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 center still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Godoy Cruz CIPADI campus. It is not Clínica Mayo Tucumán (separate page), not DOM Buenos Aires (separate page), not IME Buenos Aires, and not Instituto DAMIC Córdoba (already published). Sharing Argentina is not a license to collapse them. Godoy Cruz is not CABA. Godoy Cruz is not Tucumán.

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

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • CIPADI – Centro Integral de Prevencion y Atencion en Diabetes (Godoy Cruz, Argentina) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=12; DEVICE n=0. Example NCT IDs: NCT05275400, NCT05463744, NCT05556512.

    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 center as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching “CIPADI first-in-human” finds ALL n=12 (DEVICE n=0) without finding ANMAT. A named diabetes center is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

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

    A named center 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 center 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 center 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 in Godoy Cruz is not a DOM Buenos Aires 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. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the 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 GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site 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 OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    CIPADI is a serious named Godoy Cruz diabetes center on the public registry. ALL n=12 is registry volume, not a punchline. We do not invent a DEVICE n. 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 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-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or 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, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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 CIPADI Godoy Cruz directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The center can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANMAT applicant, importer of record, insurer, 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 center. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as DOM Buenos Aires or Clínica Mayo Tucumán?

    No. Those have their own pages. This page is CIPADI Godoy Cruz only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT05275400?

    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: DOM Buenos Aires.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Centro de Reumatología y Ortopedia Barranquilla: The NCT Campus String Is Not the INVIMA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) 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 INVIMA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Centro de Reumatología y Ortopedia Barranquilla as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Centro de Reumatologia y Ortopedia Barranquilla first-in-human, CRO Barranquilla clinical trial, Reumatologia Ortopedia Barranquilla CRO, or “go direct Centro de Reumatología y Ortopedia Barranquilla,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Centro de Reumatologia y Ortopedia in Barranquilla, Colombia, is a real named clinic string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the INVIMA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the clinic is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns INVIMA, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 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 Barranquilla rheumatology-and-orthopedics campus. It is not Clínica de la Costa Barranquilla (already published), not Centro Investigación Médico Asistencial Barranquilla (already published), not Oncomedica Montería (already published), and not FOSCAL Floridablanca. Sharing the Caribbean coast is not a license to collapse them. Barranquilla is not Floridablanca.

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

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Centro de Reumatologia y Ortopedia (Barranquilla, Colombia) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=12; DEVICE n=0. Example NCT IDs: NCT00424476, NCT00665925, NCT00848354. SAS aliases listed separately (ALL n=5 and ALL n=1) — not combined.

    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 “Reumatología Ortopedia Barranquilla first-in-human” finds ALL n=12 (DEVICE n=0) without finding INVIMA. A named clinic 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:

    • INVIMA. INVIMA is the national file for an investigational device in Colombia. Resolución 8430/1993 still sits on the ethics and research side of that stack. A hallway conversation on this campus is not the INVIMA dossier. Resolución 2378 does not govern device clinical trials — see the live country pages rather than importing a drug-GCP resolution onto a device file. A hallway conversation at this Barranquilla clinic is not a Clínica de la Costa 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. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the 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 GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site 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 INVIMA actually works (the short version)

    Use CRO in Colombia. Published comparison already on the Panama country page: Colombia ethics typically 4–6 weeks; per-patient $15,000–$25,000. bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, INVIMA clocks in-country. We pick the country the device needs. A hospital email in Barranquilla is not INVIMA clearance.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not INVIMA 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 OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Centro de Reumatología y Ortopedia is a serious named Barranquilla clinic on the public registry. ALL n=12 is registry volume, not a punchline. We do not invent a DEVICE n. This page does not recommend Colombia for new FIH execution. 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 INVIMA / 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-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or 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, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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 de Reumatología y Ortopedia Barranquilla 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 INVIMA applicant, importer of record, insurer, 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 Clínica de la Costa Barranquilla?

    No. Clínica de la Costa Barranquilla is already published. This page is Centro de Reumatología y Ortopedia only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT00424476?

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

    Does this page recommend a new Colombian FIH?

    No. The public line is unchanged: bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and owns CRO-in-Colombia; new FIH execution is not the recommendation. This is a campus page.

    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. Barranquilla sibling (do not merge): Clínica de la Costa.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • DOM Centro de Reumatología Buenos Aires: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANMAT File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) 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 ANMAT, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim DOM Centro de Reumatología Buenos Aires as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched DOM Centro de Reumatologia first-in-human, DOM Buenos Aires clinical trial, DOM CRO Argentina, or “go direct DOM Centro de Reumatología Buenos Aires,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. DOM Centro de Reumatología in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a real named rheumatology-center string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANMAT file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the center is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANMAT, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 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 center still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Buenos Aires DOM campus. It is not Instituto Médico Especializado IME, not Centro Oncológico Korben, not Sanatorio Finochietto, and not Clínica Privada Independencia Munro. Sharing CABA 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 hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • DOM Centro de Reumatología (Buenos Aires, Argentina) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=12; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT04061733, NCT04221477, NCT04232553. Unaccented aliases listed separately (ALL n=2 and ALL n=1) — not combined.

    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 center as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching “DOM Reumatología first-in-human” finds ALL n=12 (DEVICE n=1) without finding ANMAT. A named center is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

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

    A named center 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 center 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 center 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 DOM is not an IME 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. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the 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 GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site 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 OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    DOM Centro de Reumatología is a serious named Buenos Aires center on the public registry. ALL n=12 is registry volume, not a punchline. We do not invent a DEVICE n beyond 1. 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 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-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or 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, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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 DOM Centro de Reumatología Buenos Aires directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The center can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANMAT applicant, importer of record, insurer, 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 center. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as IME or Korben?

    No. Instituto Médico Especializado IME has its own page. Centro Oncológico Korben has its own page. This page is DOM only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT04061733?

    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. Buenos Aires sibling (do not merge): IME Buenos Aires.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Federal University of Paraíba João Pessoa: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) 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 ANVISA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Federal University of Paraíba João Pessoa as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Federal University of Paraiba first-in-human, UFPB Joao Pessoa clinical trial, Universidade Federal da Paraiba CRO, or “go direct Federal University of Paraíba João Pessoa,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Federal University of Paraíba in João Pessoa, Brazil, is a real named university-hospital string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device 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, CEP / CONEP, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 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 João Pessoa UFPB campus. It is not Federal University of Uberlândia, not UNICAMP (already published), not Hospital de Messejana Fortaleza, and not Clementino/UFRJ (not covered on this page). Sharing “Federal University” is not a license to collapse them. João Pessoa is not Uberlândia.

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

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Federal University of Paraíba (João Pessoa, Brazil) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=12; DEVICE n=2. Example NCT IDs: NCT01819350, NCT02809014, NCT03008759. Unaccented alias Federal University of Paraiba ALL n=8 listed separately — not combined.

    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 “UFPB first-in-human” finds ALL n=12 (DEVICE n=2) 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 RDC 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: IB, protocol, ICF, insurance, GMP evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation in João Pessoa is not an Uberlândia 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. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the 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 GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site 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 OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Federal University of Paraíba is a serious named campus on the public registry. ALL n=12 is registry volume, not a punchline. We do not invent a DEVICE n beyond 2. 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-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or 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, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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 Paraíba João Pessoa 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, insurer, 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 UFU Uberlândia?

    No. Federal University of Uberlândia has its own page. This page is UFPB João Pessoa only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT01819350?

    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 sibling (do not merge): UFU Uberlândia.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Instituto Médico Especializado (IME) Buenos Aires: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANMAT File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) 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 ANMAT, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Instituto Médico Especializado (IME) Buenos Aires as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Instituto Medico Especializado IME first-in-human, IME Buenos Aires clinical trial, IME CRO Argentina, or “go direct Instituto Médico Especializado (IME) Buenos Aires,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Instituto Médico Especializado (IME) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a real named institute string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANMAT file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the institute is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANMAT, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 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 institute still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Buenos Aires IME campus. It is not Centro Oncológico Korben (separate page), not Sanatorio Finochietto, not Clínica Privada Independencia Munro, and not Instituto Médico Fundación Grupo Colaborativo Rosario. Sharing “Instituto Médico” is not a license to collapse them. CABA is not Rosario. Munro is not IME.

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

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Instituto Médico Especializado (IME) (Buenos Aires, Argentina) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=13; DEVICE n=0. Example NCT IDs: NCT00565812, NCT04537923, NCT04657016. Aliases listed separately (IME without accents ALL n=2; Capital Federal ALL n=1; CABA ALL n=1) — not combined.

    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 institute as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching “IME Buenos Aires first-in-human” finds ALL n=13 (DEVICE n=0) without finding ANMAT. A named instituto is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

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

    A named institute 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 institute 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 institute 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 IME is not a Korben 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. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the 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 GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site 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 OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Instituto Médico Especializado is a serious named Buenos Aires institute on the public registry. ALL n=13 is registry volume, not a punchline. We do not invent a DEVICE n. 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 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-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or 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, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $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 Médico Especializado (IME) Buenos Aires directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The institute can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANMAT applicant, importer of record, insurer, 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 institute. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Korben or Finochietto?

    No. Centro Oncológico Korben has its own page. Sanatorio Finochietto has its own page. This page is IME only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT00565812?

    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. Buenos Aires sibling (do not merge): Korben.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®