The goal of the FDA’s Pediatric Device Consortia (PDC) Grants Program is to facilitate the development, production, and distribution of pediatric medical devices through funding of nonprofit consortia.
The consortia provide expert advising and support services to innovators of children's devices. These services include business and regulatory consulting, as well as device testing capabilities. Specific areas of expertise provided by the consortia include intellectual property advising; prototyping; engineering; laboratory and animal testing; grant-writing; and clinical trial design. The consortia are expected to support a mix of projects at all stages of development, particularly the later stages of clinical, manufacturing, and marketing.
Although administered by the Office of Orphan Products Development, this grant program is intended to encompass devices that could be used in all pediatric conditions and diseases, not just rare diseases.
Below are links to all PDCs in the FDA program. Deadlines for submission vary from PDC to PDC, so it may be helpful to identify one with a submission deadline that fits your timeframe.
