PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL PEDIATRIC MEDICAL DEVICE CONSORTIUM

描述（由申请人提供）： 儿科器械开发在历史上和目前都面临着主要障碍。费城儿童医院（CHOP）与德雷克塞尔大学和宾夕法尼亚大学一起，提议建立“费城地区儿科医疗器械联盟”（费城PDC）。Philadelphia PDC的使命是为有前途的儿科医疗器械的发明者提供种子资金和商业、法律的、营销、临床、工程和科学资源，这些医疗器械将使儿童受益，并具有强大的商业化潜力。CHOP学院的研究人员和研究机构的基础设施将成为费城PDC广泛普及儿科器械专业知识的基础。费城PDC的一个关键合作伙伴是德雷克塞尔大学的库尔特-德雷克塞尔转化研究合作伙伴关系。Coulter-Drexel Partnership促进、开发和支持创新，以改善患者护理，通过杰出专家提供合理的商业、监管和知识产权建议，并提供资金和项目监督，以实现具有商业化潜力的有前途的转化项目。Philadelphia-PDC与Coulter-Drexel合作，在儿科医疗器械开发的所有关键方面（商业/金融、监管、知识产权、临床和科学/工程）形成专家联盟，通过共享管理责任和资源降低成本，并利用Philadelphia-PDC和Coulter-Drexel的资金进行值得大量投资的项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Pediatric device development has historically faced and presently faces major barriers. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), together with Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania, are proposing to develop the "Philadelphia Regional Pediatric Medical Device Consortium"(Philadelphia PDC). The mission of the Philadelphia PDC is to provide seed funding and business, legal, marketing, clinical, engineering, and scientific resources to inventors of promising pediatric medical devices that will benefit children and have a strong commercialization potential. The CHOP faculty researchers and research institute infrastructure will be the basis for the broad reaching pediatric device expertise in the Philadelphia PDC. A key partner in the Philadelphia PDC is the Coulter-Drexel Translational Research Partnership at Drexel University. The Coulter-Drexel Partnership promotes, develops, and supports innovations to improve patient care by providing sound business, regulatory, and intellectual property advice from pre-eminent experts, with funding and project oversight, to promising translational projects with commercialization potential. Partnering the Philadelphia PDC with Coulter-Drexel, forms a consortium of experts in all critical aspects of pediatric medical device development (business/finance, regulatory, IP, clinical, and science/engineering), reduces costs via shared management responsibilities and resources, and leverages funding from both the Philadelphia-PDC and Coulter-Drexel on projects that merit large investment.