Trial news

The research team at the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic have shared an update on their work in Octopus: March 2025: Stage two of the Octopus Trial is open for recruitment at the Anne Rowling Clinic. We are delighted to announce that we are now recruiting for stage 2 of the Octopus Multi-Arm Multi-Stage Clinical Trial. Octopus is a UK-wide trial led by Unive ...

Spring has arrived, and alongside new flowers it also brought along new sites for OCTOPUS! Check out the Sites page to learn more about the new sites currently in trial set up. There are now 22 participants have been screened and 17 randomised for Analysis Stage 2 (AS2), bringing the total for both stages up to 452 participants randomised and 535 participants screened! Che ...

OCTOPUS is going strong into 2025 with 15 participants have been screened and 9 randomised for Analysis Stage 2 (AS2), bringing the total for both stages up to 409 participants randomised and 492 participants screened! Check out the table below to see how each site is doing as of 20-February-2025: Site Number Screened Number Randomised UCLH (London) 148 125 ...

Dr Emma Gray, the head of clinical Trials at the MS Society, was recently featured on a Naked Scientists' Science Podcast. This episode of the podcast focussed on multiple sclerosis (MS), with Dr Gray speaking about OCTOPUS. You can check out her feature by clicking here - Dr Gray comes in at 20:54. You can also read the full transcript of her interview on the Naked Scientist ...

  Happy New Year! It's a new year and OCTOPUS has opened up to a new stage! 9 Participants have been screened and 4 randomised for Analysis Stage 2 (AS2), bringing the total for both stages up to 388 participants randomised and 450 participants screened! Check out the table below to see how each site is doing as of 09-January-2025: Site Number Screened Number Rand ...