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Medical Device Innovation Consortium Sets Priorities To Advance Reg Science

The heads of the newly formed private-public partnership comprising industry, academia and FDA describe the group’s top three projects to advance medical device regulatory science.

The Medical Device Innovation Consortium is officially up and running and planning its priority projects.

The public-private partnership was formed in December 2012 with the goal of advancing medical device regulatory science. The MDIC board, which held its first meeting in late February, includes leaders from medical device manufacturers, FDA, the National Institutes of Health, CMS and patient advocacy groups

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