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Ambio Malta vs Texas ibogaine trials (IMPACT consortium)

Ambio Malta and Texas ibogaine trials (IMPACT consortium) side by side: setting, medical team, screening, what is given, length of stay, aftercare, published price and public record. See also the questions to ask.

	Ambio Malta	Texas ibogaine trials (IMPACT consortium) Status unconfirmedClinical trial
Category	Ibogaine clinic, opened November 2025	State-funded clinical trial program, not enrolling as of October 2026
Location	Mellieha Bay, Malta	Houston and Galveston, United States
Setting	A single staffed home, the same model as Ambio's Mexican sites.	Academic hospitals, under an FDA-supervised protocol, once the trial exists.
Medical team	Drs. Amir Chalaby and Emily Biesmans; 24/7 physicians, nurses and paramedics (press release).	University physicians and researchers.
Screening before treatment	As at Ambio Mexico: EKG within 60 days, blood panel, medication tapers.	Trial eligibility criteria, not yet published.
What is given	As at Ambio Mexico.	To be set by the FDA-approved protocol.
Who it is for	Mental health, TBI and "optimisation" through the 5-day Foundational program; the detox program is not offered here according to the launch release.	Addiction, TBI and other behavioural conditions (the IMPACT consortium: Ibogaine Medicine for PTSD, Addiction and Cognitive Trauma).
Protocol and length of stay	5 days; weekly programs from January 2026.	A two-year multicentre trial is planned. As of October 2026 no federally authorised ibogaine trial exists in the United States (ARPA-H).
After the treatment	As at Ambio Mexico.	Per protocol.
Published price	Not stated in the press release.	No fee expected for trial participants.
Licences and accreditations stated	No licence named in the press release.	Texas SB 2308, signed June 2025, appropriated $50 million; HHSC selected UTHealth Houston and UTMB on December 12, 2025.
Founded / history	Opened November 2025.	The statute bars disbursement until non-state matching funds arrive. In March 2026 HHSC said no drug-company proposal met the match requirements; state leaders said Texas would fully fund the program. As of October 8, 2026 no executed contract or disbursement had been confirmed.
Rating (as shown on the cited page)	Not shown on the pages we checked	Not shown on the pages we checked
Public record	None found.	None found.
Status	Operating. Bookings listed on the Ambio site through 2026.	Status unconfirmed. Not enrolling. Anyone searching for ibogaine in Texas today cannot get it through this program yet.

From each program's website and the sources on its profile, checked 2026-10-20.

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