Synchron has implanted its BCI in a patient for the first time—bringing it a big step closer to distribution.
Synchron is making tangible progress. In August 2020, the company was granted an investigational device exemption from the FDA, allowing it to become the first company to conduct clinical trials of a permanently implanted BCI. To reach this point took five years and a “huge amount of work,” says Oxley.in Australia followed four patients who had been implanted with the device for 12 months and suggested that such prolonged use of the device was safe.
The next phase will be a pivotal trial, in which Synchron will have to show that the technology significantly improves aspects of its users’ lives. This will involve consulting the patients themselves to find out what they hope to gain or regain with the implant. Providing the trial goes to plan, the company will then apply for FDA approval and make a case for the device to be made available under Medicare, the government-provided health insurance program.
“If this is private corporations with commercial interests in the data, is there anything kind of risky if it’s monopolized in one set of hands?” says Jennifer Chandler, a professor of law at the University of Ottawa who studies the intersection of the brain sciences, law, and ethics.
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