For Industry Partners

Pediatric healthcare is critically underserved. While medical advancements for adults continue at a rapid pace, children face a five- to ten-year lag in receiving similar innovations. The Crossroads Pediatric Device Consortium bridges this gap by providing:

✔ Cutting-edge pediatric research and development
✔ Collaborative opportunities with top-tier clinical and engineering experts
✔ Cost-sharing models that reduce financial risk in early-stage development
✔ A direct pipeline from concept to commercialization

By joining our consortium, your organization will help create groundbreaking pediatric devices while benefiting from shared expertise, funding opportunities, and streamlined regulatory pathways.

Children face unique healthcare challenges, but innovation for pediatric devices lags significantly behind.

🔹 80% of FDA-approved devices lack pediatric testing.
🔹 Only one pediatric device gets FDA approval per year.
🔹 5,000+ rare pediatric diseases remain underrepresented in medical research.

We’re Here to Change That.

Through our multi-disciplinary collaboration, we provide:
✔ Clinical insights from leading pediatricians to validate unmet needs.
✔ Advanced prototyping and testing to refine device concepts.
✔ Regulatory & commercialization expertise to streamline approval processes.

The Crossroads Pediatric Device Consortium is an integrative force for industry partners, collaboratively supporting pediatric device innovation throughout the entire product life cycle: discovery, development, and commercialization. The consortium offers seed funding opportunities, regulatory support, engineering and design assistance, world-class animal study capabilities, and a broad array of clinical study capacities. The consortium also has productive relationships with complementary initiatives and resources through our close ties with many translational programs, such as the NIH-funded Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, the Heartland Children’s Nutrition Collaborative, and Purdue’s Engineering in Medicine initiative.