A New NEST: MDIC Leaders Discuss Relocation, National Evaluation System And More

27 Apr 2017

Medical Device Innovation Consortium's CEO William Murray and VP for Technology Innovation Dawn Bardot sat down with Medtech Insight during the recent Design of Medical Devices conference in Minneapolis to discuss what their organization has been doing lately and some future focuses in the areas of regulatory science and device data collection.

The Medical Device Innovation Consortium, a public-private partnership focused on regulatory science with deep FDA involvement, has been busy lately helping to start the Coordinating Center for the Medical Device National Evaluation System for health Technology (NEST), moving its headquarters from Minneapolis to the Washington, DC, area and continuing to facilitate collaborative research and development for better approaches to running medical device clinical trials.

The US FDA recently committed to spend $30m from device industry user fees to pilot NEST as part of the...