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Bringing medical progress to patients in need Medical devices and medicinal products must meet very strict regulations and standards before they can be brought to the market. Hannover-based company Medicoforum GmbH accompanies the whole process from concept for clinical trials to the market-ready product. TEXT: JESSICA HOLZHAUSEN I PHOTOS: FOTOLIA
“We know every possible regulation companies have to take into consideration,” says Medicoforum managing director Dr. Uwe Albrecht. Medicoforum is an internationally successful provider who helps implement medical devices in QM systems and prepares them for market entry, a reliable partner for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. “30 years ago, pharmaceutical companies mostly did this independently and on their own, but since then the process has become far more complex,”says Dr. Albrecht. So, companies now rely on external specialists. Medicoforum GmbH accompanies throughout the whole process or on single steps along the way: from assessment and medical device dossiers to admission and registration, from clinical research to market access consulting and publications. The company always keeps a balance between science and busi72 | Issue 49 | April 2017
ness to create clinical excellence and technological innovation. To comply with legal requirements, specialised attorneys are consulted, as patent attorneys are for questions of intellectual property. One of the key factors for Medicoforum when working with pharmaceutical companies is trust. “You have to trust each other to reach a common goal quickly,” says Dr. Albrecht. This not only means trust between companies and the Medicoforum consultants, but also between consultants and doctors involved in the research. Medicoforum functions as a kind of bridge builder, an intermediary between both sides. “We often have to translate the wishes of one side to the other,”says Dr. Albrecht. And vice versa. Even though doctors and pharmaceutical companies want to achieve the same goal – better
treatments for patients – they often speak a different language, see the same problems, but from different angles. Medicoforum consultants bring both perspectives together so that the process and products profit. Medicoforum GmbH has worked on a number of physically active products and pharmaceuticals. Regulations have become standardised in Europe, the United States and America, which helps to bring a product to different markets in one process. Medicoforum works internationally with a main focus on Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark and the US. www.medicoforum.com