Exponent
Exponent is a multidisciplinary science and engineering consulting firm serving sectors including healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and consumer products. From medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and supplements to digital health and wearables, we deliver rigorous science that quantifies impacts on human health. Exponent helps you push the envelope on the development, deployment, safety, and effectiveness of cutting-edge drugs, devices, and diagnostics — concomitantly balancing benefits and risks. Count on our multidisciplinary, data-driven, evidence-based assessments to give you clarity on your most complex product needs and challenges. With lives on the line, innovations that support healthcare demand the highest levels of scientific rigor. Whether you’re developing a novel drug, a sturdier stent, or a faster flu test, you need clear answers to complex questions, quickly. Exponent supports our life sciences clients across the total product lifecycle by solving critical design, regulatory, safety, and market access challenges. We can collaborate with you throughout your journey, helping you navigate risks and opportunities — and optimize outcomes — with science-based strategies and specialized expertise.
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What We Do
Exponent's technical expertise spans digital health technology, bioinformatics, and the entire product lifecycle for life sciences firms, consumer electronics companies, and CROs.
Objective assessments for better business decisions. From leveraging real-world data, to developing software as a medical device, to assessing biocompatibility and MRI compatibility, Exponent provides crucial medical device design and development analyses to empower your decision-making.
Address global regulatory compliance for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and combination products. When it comes to bringing next-generation pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and combination products to market, Exponent provides clients with decades of experienced regulatory support to help facilitate a streamlined path to market.
Support for improving pharmaceutical products. Exponent provides support for a breadth of challenges related to research, development, and formulation of next-generation pharmaceuticals.
Evaluating innovative technologies. Exponent offers extensive experience analyzing a range of military products — from protective gear to wearable technology — leveraging multidisciplinary teams and state-of-the-art modalities for breakthrough insights.
Our IVD consultants support the full range of in vitro and companion diagnostics, including high-throughput clinical laboratories, point-of-care, wearable, and at-home testing products. Our expertise includes analysis of real-world evidence (RWE), identifying IVD safety risks including use-related errors, assay and instrument development support, human factors, chemical, biological, mechanical, electrical, and materials support, microfluidics and disposables support, and technical due diligence.
Exponent's multidisciplinary teams provide medical device manufacturers with unparalleled support for battery selection, evaluation, and integration, backed by decades of experience in battery technology, medical devices, consumer electronics, and increasingly, digital health applications. Our experts in electrical engineering, thermal sciences, polymer science, materials science, biomedical engineering, electrochemistry, and other disciplines offer clients trusted, objective battery performance testing, evaluation, and guidance for medical devices, enabling them to mitigate risks associated with product failure and bring products to market. We also have laboratory facilities and key relationships around the globe to support rapid response failure analysis investigations of batteries in a variety of medical devices to help clients address complex design component or supply chain issues and identify and implement corrective actions.
With our device and combination products expertise, Exponent is uniquely qualified to perform biocompatibility and biological risk assessments of medical devices and materials for a range of needs and help you address compatibility risks during device development. Evaluating the biocompatibility of a biomaterial is typically addressed by testing outlined in FDA guidance documents and ISO 10993 biocompatibility standards. We offer customized analytical chemistry testing and subsequent toxicological risk assessments in accordance with ISO 10993, as well as 21 CFR Part 58 good laboratory practices.
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Digital Health Technologies
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Infectious Diseases
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Analysis of California Air Resources Board climate disclosure policies and regulatory implications.
Overview of proposed and vetoed PFAS substance legislative actions in California.