Sophie Clewlow

Sophie has worked for the UK competent authority, MHRA for over two years. Initially she began her career as a medical device specialist in the non-active cardiovascular team and her role centred around risk assessment of implantable devices. Her extensive experience in risk assessment of medical devices paired with her background in biochemistry led to her career move. Sophie now works as a biocompatibility specialist in the devices clinical team. Her role revolves around the assessment of biological safety of medical devices in line with the ISO standard 10993-Biological evaluation of medical devices, for which she sits on the committee and works with other committee members to improve the usability of the standard and ensure it reflects current state of the art. Alongside her work she is currently undertaking a master’s degree in medical toxicology to further her understanding in the principles and mechanisms of toxicity and how these apply to biocompatibility.