{"261581":{"#nid":"261581","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium Awarded $3.5M to Assist Commercialization of Medical Devices for Children","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium (APDC) has been awarded $3.5 million over five years by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to assist scientists, clinicians and entrepreneurs in bringing medical devices for children to the market with greater efficiency. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe APDC is one of only seven FDA pediatric device consortia in the country. The center is a public-private partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta, and now the Virginia Commonwealth University. The APDC\u2019s mission is to increase the accessibility of medical devices that will improve the health of children. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe APDC was founded in 2011, and the new award is a second-phase grant. The latest funding positions Atlanta as a national leader in pediatric technologies. The award follows a $20 million joint investment by Georgia Tech and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, announced in June 2012, for developing technological solutions for improving children\u2019s health.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe APDC\u2019s mission is crucial to improving the health of children. Many medical devices used to treat children were designed and produced for adults, so they are not optimal for the pediatric physiology and anatomy. The APDC was created to help academic entrepreneurs and small businesses obtain the expertise that they need to commercialize their pediatric medical technologies. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThis additional round of funding will make a profound impact on the availability of medical devices designed especially for pediatric patients,\u201d said David Ku, the Lawrence P. Huang Chair Professor of Engineering Entrepreneurship at Georgia Tech, who will lead the APDC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEntrepreneurs struggle to commercialize pediatric technologies because the market for these devices is small compared to that of the adult medical device market. The APDC\u2019s hope is that more efficient development of pediatric devices will improve the benefit-to-cost ratio for these products so that they can succeed in smaller markets. \u003Cbr \/\u003ETo achieve this goal, the APDC provides expertise in device engineering, laboratory and animal model studies, design and analysis of clinical trials with access to relevant pediatric populations, and identification of the best clinical application for introduction of a technology into the marketplace. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAPDC also has experience in prototyping, business planning, good manufacturing practices, regulatory affairs and intellectual property protection. The center\u2019s advisors have been assisting projects since 2011 when APDC was awarded initial funding from the FDA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cOur team\u2019s combined expertise of over 80 years should help the community at large bring additional devices to market,\u201d said Ku, who is also a Regents Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAPDC\u2019s co-directors are Barbara Boyan, dean of the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth, and Wilbur Lam, assistant professor of in pediatrics with appointments at Emory University, the Aflac Cancer Center of Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. APDC\u2019s associate director is Kevin Maher, M.D., a cardiologist and researcher specializing in pediatrics with appointments at the Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, Sibley Heart Center and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"U.S. Food and Drug Administration grants public-private partnership five year award"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EU.S. Food and Drug Administration grants Georgia Tech and partners a five year award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"U.S. Food and Drug Administration grants public-private partnership five year award"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2013-12-17 11:58:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:33","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"261621":{"id":"261621","type":"image","title":"David Ku, MD, PhD - Executive Director, Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium","body":null,"created":"1449243999","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:46:39","changed":"1475894948","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:08","alt":"David Ku, MD, PhD - Executive Director, Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium","file":{"fid":"198400","name":"d._ku.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/d._ku_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/d._ku_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2457902,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/d._ku_0.jpg?itok=-II8ZF9q"}}},"media_ids":["261621"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/pediatricdevicesatlanta.org\/","title":"Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mcdevitt@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMegan McDevitt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector Communications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003EPetit Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brett.israel@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrett Israel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mcdevitt@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}