Dr Shannen Chacko Rajan
Project Associate
Dr Shannen Chacko Rajan is a Bioengineer with about 6 years of research experience in academia. She completed her Master’s degree in Nanoscience and Technology with a special focus on Biomaterials. As a part of an exchange program during her Master’s, Shannen carried out experimental work on nanofibers for biomedical applications at Leuphana University, Germany. Further, she went on to do her PhD studies at Newcastle University, UK in Bioengineering, where she was researching to identify the causes of failure of retrieved knee prostheses using engineering techniques. During her PhD, she solely catalogued about 400 retrieved knee prostheses from various manufacturers and analyzed over 100 total and partial knee prostheses. Her knowledge of a wide range of tribological and material characterization techniques, combined with her scientific expertise in the field of prostheses analysis, allows Shannen to support you in establishing clinical evaluation of medical devices. Shannen speaks English, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil.
Dr Richard Curno
Chief Scientific Officer
Richard Curno has in depth knowledge of regulatory, clinical and quality activities, with extensive experience of bringing medical devices of all classes to market, including strategic regulatory discussions with notified bodies, competent authorities and FDA. At Medidee, Richard takes the lead on clinical and scientific related processes. Clinical process specialities include Clinical Evaluation, Clinical Investigation design, Clinical Development Planning, including PMCF. Related to Scientific Process within Medidee, this includes specialisation in biological evaluation and biological safety assessment, assessment of substance-based devices according to GSPR 12, cleaning validation, sterilisation validation, processing validation, together with the design of usability and animal study design as part of V&V activities. Richard is fluent in English and French.