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Pre-Clinical Services

In Vivo Environment

In Vivo Environment

  • Defining appropriate in vivo boundary conditions and device lifetime requirements
  • Interpret literature, clinical imaging data, and standards for relevant pressures, motions, and other factors influencing device performance
Computational Modeling

Computational Modeling

  • Translate in vivo conditions to meaningful computational boundary conditions
  • Define appropriate computational strategies to meet engineering and regulatory requirements
Benchtop Testing

Benchtop Testing

  • Assist client in the development and confirmation of clinically appropriate benchtop models to effectively assess efficacy of product and to communicate product efficacy to investors.
  • Working with our regulatory and engineering consultants to confirm boundary conditions of bench top model.
  • Physician confirmatory testing in bench top models
Animal Studies

Animal Studies

  • Selecting appropriate animal model
  • Defining appropriate goals for preclinical animal studies
  • Establishing animal protocol per regulatory recommendations
  • Clinical execution and procedural refinement based on findings
Technology refinement based on pre-clinical testing and user input

Technology refinement based on pre-clinical testing and user input

Clinically informed market research

Clinically informed market research

  • Define the market
  • Identify likely end user (OBL, ASC, or hospital)
  • Economic analysis of the market
  • Product Adoption Analysis
    • Identify clinical support needs from entry level community hospitals to academic institution
    • Competitive product analysis 
  • Primary market research
    • Clinician one-on-one interviews for:
      • Product input
      • User experience
      • Benefits over competing products
    • Conduct interviews with all stakeholders: hospital administrators, service line administrators
  • Define marketing claims matrix and supporting clinically relevant test requirements
  • Align desired marketing claims to testing requirements
Engineering strategy

Engineering strategy

  • Assist in establishing the product development process (PDP) for R&D and serve as independent design reviewers
  • Review key design control documents such as design inputs, specification justifications, trace matrix, etc.
  • Develop the device evaluation strategy
Regulatory strategy

Regulatory strategy

  • Establish regulatory pathway
  • Identify potential roadblocks to approval
  • What data will be needed to achieve regulatory approval
  • Oversight of strategy and critical review of submissions
  • Optimizing FDA relationship and communication
Quality Management System

Quality Management System

  • Assist in implementation of a quality management system.
  • Assist in development of design control strategies.
Market access and commercialization considerations

Market access and commercialization considerations

  • Develop a preliminary market access, reimbursement, and commercialization strategy.
  • Begin considerations for Value Analysis Committee strategy and preparation.
  • What data or evidence will the product need to demonstrate value with clinical and economic customer segments at hospitals, ASCs, OBLs, GPOs, etc?
  • Cost benefit analysis.
Strategic insights for acquisition

Strategic insights for acquisition

  • What are desired new technologies and therapies?
  • What are the strategic partners looking for in acquistions?
  • Portfolio analysis of major players
  • Strategy acquirers: Brainstorming/wargaming to identify likely acquirers.
  • Business analysis preparation for due-diligence conversations
  • Pipeline and product portfolio planning (including assistance in IP and white-space analysis).
  • Maximize potential pool of acquiring partners.
General Counsel Services

General Counsel Services

  • Entity structuring
  • Financing structuring
  • Acquisition structuring
  • Licensing structuring
  • Team building and relationship structuring
  • SAB structuring and compliance
  • Board of Directors building and management
  • General business/legal advisory work
  • Acquisition support
  • Diligence support

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