MEDTECH
MEDTECH
NCTO SUPPORT
The NCTO has a dedicated medtech expert in the team, the Clinical Industry Liaison Officer (CILO). The CILO role is funded by Enterprise Ireland and works with medical device companies and medtech entrepreneurs to help them navigate the clinical research landscape and supports available in Ireland.
The CILO can help you with any queries you have regarding clinical investigations and can support you with any questions you have for the Competent Authority in Ireland, Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) and/or the National Research Ethics Committee for Clinical Investigations of Medical Devices and Performance Studies of In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices (NREC-MD).
If you have any questions about conducting clinical investigations in Ireland, please contact ncto@ucc.ie.
The CILO role includes the following supports:
NCTO SUPPORT
The CILO can help you with any queries you have regarding clinical investigations and can support you with any questions you have for the Competent Authority in Ireland, Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) and/or the National Research Ethics Committee (NREC).
If you have any questions about conducting clinical investigations in Ireland, please get in touch with ncto@ucc.ie.
Equally, the CILO will provide the below supports to MedTech Clinical Research:
Provide Education and Outreach services
Identify and evaluate strategic capabilities of infrastructure in Ireland
Advise and signpost support on regulatory requirements
Work closely with other MedTech supporting research organisations
Provide policy and benchmarking advice to key stakeholders
understanding the life cycle of clinical data
understanding the elements of clinical data
understanding the life cycle of clinical data
understanding the elements of clinical data
HRB NCTO MEDTECH WORKING GROUP (MTWG)
The Medtech Working Group is co-chaired by Prof Martina Hennessy Director, Clinical Research Facility, St James Hospital and Olive O’Driscoll Clinical Industry Liaison Officer, NCTO. Members include representatives from the Clinical Trial Facilities/Centres, Enterprise Ireland, and Irish Medtech Association, IBEC. The group puts strategies and supports in place to help medtech manufacturers to navigate the Irish clinical investigation ecosystem and support companies to conduct high quality clinical investigations in Ireland.
HRB NCTO MEDTECH WORKING GROUP (MTWG)
A MedTech Working Group is Chaired by Prof Martina Hennessy and the group meet to discuss issues related to medical device clinical investigations and to help med tech Sponsors to conduct more high quality medical device research in Ireland. The working group will next meet in September 2022.
