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 UNAM Optometry Clinic as a bioaccess® client.
If you searched UNAM Optometry Clinic first-in-human, Optometry Clinic National Autonomous University Mexico City clinical trial, UNAM optometry CRO, or “go direct UNAM Optometry Clinic,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. The ranking string is Optometry Clinic, National Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico. It is a university optometry clinic. It is the site, not the CRO. 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 clinic is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns COFEPRIS, institutional 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 UNAM optometry-clinic intercept. Distinct from INCMNSZ Salvador Zubirán (CMS 95623), Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (this batch), and CODET Vision Institute Tijuana. A university clinic in Mexico City is not a Tijuana ophthalmic hospital and not a national institute. We will not invent a PI.
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; complete dump), this campus sits here after filters:
- Optometry Clinic, National Autonomous University (Mexico City, Mexico): DEVICE n=10 (rank 12). INDUSTRY:10. Example NCT IDs: NCT02299869, NCT02727816, NCT02847169.
The same ranking dump has no ALL interventional row for this facility string. We will not invent an ALL n.
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 campus 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 “UNAM optometry clinical trial” or “Optometry Clinic National Autonomous University FIH” finds a DEVICE campus (n=10, rank 12, INDUSTRY:10) without finding COFEPRIS, import, insurance, or 21 CFR 812.28 — and without landing on INCMNSZ, INCan, or CODET. A university optometry clinic with an all-industry DEVICE split is still a site. It 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 local 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:
- 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 at a UNAM optometry clinic is not that file, and it is not an INCan or INCMNSZ 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-site MSA will not stretch.
Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.
Site versus CRO
| Workstream | What UNAM Optometry Clinic (site) typically owns | What the CRO still owns |
|---|---|---|
| Procedure | Rooms, caseload, local staff, source documents | Protocol fit, training, device accountability |
| Ethics | Institutional committee calendar and local rules | Packet, ICF, IB alignment, deficiency cycle |
| National authority | Not the permit holder by appearing on an NCT | COFEPRIS clinical-investigation file |
| Import | Receiving and storage if contracted | Importer of record |
| Quality | Hospital or university quality and the case | ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE, TMF |
| FDA conversation | Source documents from cases they run | 21 CFR 812.28 narrative — eligibility, not clearance |
| Country optionality | One UNAM optometry DEVICE string (no ALL row) — not INCMNSZ, INCan, or CODET | Colombia (INVIMA) and the rest of the bioaccess® platform |
How COFEPRIS actually works (the short version)
Use clinical-trials-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.
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.
Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not COFEPRIS clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.
Do not smear the clinic
The UNAM optometry clinic is a real Mexico City university clinic. DEVICE n=10 (rank 12, INDUSTRY:10) is registry volume, not a punchline. Do not invent an ALL n. Do not invent a PI. Do not merge it into INCMNSZ, INCan, or CODET Tijuana. The clinic is the site, not the CRO. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.
What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide
- 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.
- Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the COFEPRIS / ethics packet.
- Importer of record and device accountability.
- Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
- 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
A site-name search sometimes arrives with a stale story that bioaccess® “left Colombia.” That is false. bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia. Always bioaccess® — local entity and office, Miami headquarters, INVIMA clocks in-country. 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-panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.
Frequently asked questions
Can I contract UNAM Optometry Clinic 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 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 clinic. We will not invent that claim. This page intercepts the search; it does not claim the studies. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran the studies. Public NCT ranking only, from the 1 September 2026 6:32 PM ET API file.
Is this the same page as INCMNSZ, INCan, or CODET Tijuana?
No. INCMNSZ is CMS 95623. Instituto Nacional de Cancerología is a separate intercept in this batch. CODET is the Tijuana ophthalmic intercept. This page is the NCT string Optometry Clinic, National Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico only.
If I already have this campus, what does the CRO still do?
Regulatory-fit (this country versus Colombia versus a multi-site design); the COFEPRIS / ethics packet; insurance; import; contracts and activation; ISO 14155 and the 812.28 narrative; optionality if one room is not enough.
Does a high n on ClinicalTrials.gov mean the clinic is a device CRO?
No. n is unique NCT IDs per facility string. It is registry volume. It is not ISO 14155 monitoring, not an importer of record, and not a 21 CFR 812.28 package. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.
Why is there no ALL n?
The dump did not publish an ALL row for this string. We cite DEVICE n=10 (rank 12, INDUSTRY:10) only. We will not invent an ALL count.
Is a university optometry clinic a CRO?
No. The clinic is the site. DEVICE n=10 does not make UNAM the COFEPRIS applicant or importer of record. We will not invent a PI.
Are the COFEPRIS clocks different from INCan on this batch?
No. Same Mexico hub: ethics typically 4–6 weeks; COFEPRIS typically 4–8 weeks after ethics; combined start-up 2.8-month median; registro sanitario ~30 working days separate.
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 hub: clinical trials in Mexico. INCMNSZ sibling: INCMNSZ Salvador Zubirán.
Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®