PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp. has appointed Dr. Gyan Pareek as chief of urology in the department of surgery at Lifespan hospitals and president of Brown Urology Inc.

PROVIDENCE – The Lifespan Cancer Institute is launching a new program to train high school students of color for a career in cancer research and medicine.

DENVER & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TriSalus Life Sciences®, Inc. (“TriSalus” or the “company”), an oncology company in the process of going public through a business combination transaction (the “Business Combination”) with MedTech Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: MTAC) (“MedTech” or “MTAC”), today announced that it has expanded the reach of its ongoing Pressure-Enabled Regional Immuno-Oncology™ (“PERIO™-01” and “PERIO™-02”) clinical program.In recent months TriSalus has opened five new PERIO™-01 (NCT04935229) clinical trial sites, at Stanford University Hospitals, University of California Los Angeles, University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Washington Medical Center and University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, in addition to five previously activated sites. The PERIO™-01 trial is studying an investigational drug, SD-101, delivered intravascularly by the TriNav® Infusion System (“TriNav®”) using the company’s proprietary Pressure-Enabled Drug Delivery™ (“PEDD™”) method of administration. The study is evaluating whether this platform approach with SD-101 and PEDD™ can improve the performance of systemic checkpoint inhibitors in treating patients with uveal melanoma with liver metastases. In addition to these U.S. sites, TriSalus anticipates opening future PERIO™-01 clinical trial sites in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Canada.In parallel, TriSalus opened PERIO™-02 (NCT05220722) trial sites at Columbia University and University of Colorado Denver, along with Rhode Island Hospital – which was announced last month as part of an expanded research collaboration with Lifespan Health System