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# Pediatric Medical Device Development Grants
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/pediatric-medical-device-development-grants/
- Published: 2018-09-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T00:31:34.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Devices, #legacy-id-D5142331

FDA has awarded five grants totaling up to $6 million per year for the next five years to pediatric device consortia across the country to provide advice and support services to innovators of children’s medical devices. An agency news [statement](https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/CDERFOIAElectronicReadingRoom/UCM619912.pdf?ref=fdaweb.com) says the program “aims to enhance the development, production, and distribution or pediatric medical devices and has awarded $37 million to various consortia since 2009.”

Specific areas of expertise provided by the consortia to medical device innovators include advising on issues related to intellectual property, prototyping, engineering, laboratory and animal testing, grant-writing, and clinical trial design to help foster and guide advancement of medical devices specifically for children.