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MAISI: Navigating The 'Valley Of Death' In Medtech Research Translation

 
• By Natasha Barrow

Translating research from proof of concept to clinical investigations is a difficult hurdle to overcome. To succeed, researchers need to design their technology for industrial standard manufacturing early on, Anne Vanhoestenberghe, director for the Manufacture of Active Implants and Surgical Instruments (MAISI), told Medtech Insight.

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The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London has high hopes for its new facility for the Manufacture of Active Implants and Surgical Instruments (MAISI), which aims to create an ecosystem for accelerating medical technologies from the bench to the bedside.

From research to human studies, clinical translation of complex medical devices is a challenge, Anne Vanhoestenberghe, MAISI director and professor of active implantable medical

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