German device industry sanguine over DAMA (Deutsche Arzneimittel- und Medizinproduktagentur)
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The change in the German regulatory authority for devices from the federal BfArM institute to an agency, the DAMA (Deutsche Arzneimittel- und Medizinproduktagentur) in January 2006, will entail the establishment of a new medical technology regulatory department, called the Bundesstelle fur Medizinprodukte. It is foreseen that BfArM's current head of devices, Hans-Georg Will, will assume the devices head role in the agency.