Adler: Partnering with DoD enables faster clearance than FDA breakthrough pathways
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Jake Adler compares the FDA Breakthrough Device designation used by commercial BCI startups to joint DoD-FDA expedited clearance pathways.
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“And notably, like big companies right now with big startups like Neuralink and Synchron, like these big brain computer interface companies, you know, which have breakthrough designation, which was, you know, prized as like the fastest, most expedited pathway in the FDA. If you work with the DoD, you can move faster, right?”
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