Safety under scrutiny: A call to enhance preclinical testing (11 July 2024)

Summary

In this article, Nicholas T H Farr, research fellow at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield, looks at the need for improved preclinical testing methods to ensure the safety of new medical devices. He highlights cases where lack of testing has led to significant harm to patients and argues that to reduce the risk to patients, the research community needs rigorous and comprehensive testing methods that can more accurately predict how the human body will respond to implantable materials and devices.

Nicholas has previously written for the hub, in this blog about the importance of investing in the development of testing methods to ensure medical devices are safe to use.