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Igi-Tech: an implant development platform
To design their new implantable medical devices, companies can now rely on the Igi‑Tech platform, created by the Cetim and Mica Carnot Institutes. This entity covers the entire value chain of the development process, from creation to validation and including material making.
The Igi‑Tech platform combines the expertise and equipment of two Carnot Institutes, Cetim and Mica (Materials Institute Carnot Alsace) in the medical sector. Mica is a specialist in functional materials, surfaces and interfaces. There is a wide range of medical devices and biomaterials concerned. This includes all kinds of orthoses and prostheses (dental, ENT, cardiology and orthopaedic items) as well as smart bandages, diagnostic biomarkers, bone filling biomaterials, textiles for the health sector, biosensors, stents, etc. The innovative instruments and materials used within the therapeutic environment can also be added.
The entire value chain of the development of a medical device is therefore covered by the experts of both Carnot Institutes, from the product design phase (further to an industrialist or practitioner’s request) to clinical and validation trials. Igi‑Tech is able to create materials and propose innovative processes, then to design and perform the technical development of a device, conduct preclinical and clinical surveys, or even to issue the failure analysis of an implant. “We also assist industrial manufactures in the industrialisation phases. Today, such a support is considered vital for the development of a subcontracting network in the medical sector!” says Yanneck Suchier from Cetim.
Illustration: Artificial larynx jointly developed with Protip Medical
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