MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Minnesota medical device lobbying group LifeScience Alley joined forces with FDA regulators to launch the Medical Device Innovation Consortium, a partnership dedicated to advancing regulatory science.
The group will include leaders from medical device groups and the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health in pursuit of improving the federal watchdog agency’s medtech review process.
"We have been working closely with Dr. Jeff Shuren, Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath and CDRH staff over the past year to build a mechanism to solve pre-competitive technical issues," LifeScience Alley CEO Dale Wahlstrom told the Star Tribune. "This is an exciting partnership that will have a profound impact across the nation’s medical technology industry."
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