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Sagentia Medical is an end-to-end medical device design consultancy offering product development and strategic advisory services. We collaborate closely with our clients, from first engagements to multi-year programmes, building long term relationships rooted in technical trust and market understanding.

Whether working with the top 10 MedTechs or ambitious PE or VC-backed startups, our clients engage with us because we are large enough to have the skills and experience required, but not so large that they feel like just another client.

Our ISO 13485 process builds in a strong focus on user needs, whether that’s a surgeon, a doctor, a nurse, a patient, or their carer.

Get in touch to discuss your medical product development challenge and how our team of experts could support you.

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End-to-end medical device design and development

First projects with us are typically something small but important. For example your R&D team may be stuck, and our applied science team can help. When needed, we can scale to very large multidisciplinary teams in a few weeks to turbo-charge your development. Either way, our focus is on delivering value quickly and building trust as an extension of your team. We maintain a 95% satisfaction rate, with 80% of our work arising from repeat business.

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May 19, 2025

Mammoth Biosciences SEEKR instrument & cartridge

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May 19, 2025

Development of the TMINI™ Miniature Robotic System

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May 19, 2025

Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company: ProBeam® 360° Proton Therapy System

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May 19, 2025

Sagentia Innovation: sPEEK™ – Voice controlled surgical loupes

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Why Sagentia Medical?

  • A safe pair of hands: End-to-end medical device design consultancy offering advisory and product development services, prototype production, regulatory support, and transfer to manufacture
  • Value creation: Help maximise post-acquisition ROI by delivering pragmatic solutions to manufacturability, reliability, and cost challenges, creating long lasting value. We understand that value creation can be multi-faceted and will work to that brief
  • Deeper science and user insight: Combining technical feasibility based on scientific first principles with strong user insights can deliver exceptional medtech solutions that achieve higher value results
  • IP generated is owned by our clients: Regularly inventing novel solutions on projects and this IP belongs solely to clients
  • Strong financial backing and commercial understanding: Sagentia consulting services are part of Science Group plc and has strong financial backing. Through Science Group’s product and systems businesses, we understand the reality of manufacturing and selling products
  • Multiple practices with diverse service offerings: As part of Sagentia we have sister consultancy practices, Sagentia Innovation, Sagentia Defence, Sagentia Aviation, and Sagentia Regulatory, that extend our expertise, knowledge and service offering

Our team

 

We are dedicated to guiding and inspiring our consultants to tackle complex MedTech challenges with specialist expertise. With a wealth of experience in surgical robotics, medical diagnostic technologies, and R&D medical devices, we foster innovation and excellence, developing high-performing teams for our clients with a holistic approach.

Dr Nick Collier

Chief Technology Officer

Nick works to bring new technologies from the research lab into commercial products. With a background in physics and chemistry, Nick has spent 25 years working across the medical and life-science sectors at the interface of biochemistry, microfluidics and instrumentation. The focus of much of his work is in medical diagnostics and IVD.

Erica Kantor

Head of Women’s Health

Erica supports companies in the medical industry achieve commercial success and improve patient outcomes through the development of breakthrough products and services. With a background in Mechanical Engineering, her work spans the entire product development process, from concept to manufacture. She is particularly passionate about holistic, human-centric design and women’s health innovation.

Chris Humby

Partner

Chris has a strong background in new product development, and for the past fifteen years he has focused on devices for the medical sector. Today he plays a lead role in our work in this space, drawing on his extensive network of contacts within US, European and Japanese multinationals as well as start-ups.

Dr Rob Morgan

Partner

Rob has spent 25+ years in MedTech innovation. During his time at Sagentia Medical, Rob has led the development of a surgical robotics system, an in vitro diagnostics platform and a drug delivery system. Prior to joining, he worked in the Orthopaedics industry at Smith & Nephew, holding positions in research & development, project management and strategic marketing.

Carl Hewett

VP Design

Carl offers extensive insights into Human-Centric Design and Human Factors. His design engineering expertise goes hand-in-hand with a customer-focused business development mindset. He has multiple international patents and has managed several multi-year medical device developments. Carl has a first-class degree in industrial product design and a PGDip in innovation and design thinking.

Josh Jackson

Director of Business Development

Josh leverages over 25 years’ experience in the medical industry. Josh’s background is focused on surgical and procedural technologies working for many medical device organisations. His experience also includes general, gynaecology, neuro, urological and vascular surgeries as well as procedures in cardiac catheterisation, electrophysiology and hepatology labs.

Hermione Blakiston

Medical R&D Consultant

With an academic background in computational and theoretical physics, Hermione’s expertise spans optics and sensor technology, particularly within diagnostic, surgical, and women’s health applications. Her projects encompass IP landscaping and due diligence, as well as the design and creation of demonstrator devices for clinical verification in hospitals worldwide. Hermione excels at translating innovative technologies into tangible products that enhance patient outcomes.

Duncan Smith

SVP, Managing Partner

Duncan spent 15 years in R&D and manufacturing before moving to technology consultancy, where he has worked with many world leading multi-nationals and startups in the Medical, Consumer and Industrial sectors. He has led teams of designers, scientists and engineers in Europe, the US and Asia. Duncan is an electronic and audio engineer by background and holds an MBA.

Paul Wilkins

Managing Director & EVP

Paul has more than 20 years experience in the identification of new market opportunities and the delivery of novel technologies and products. He is a University of Cambridge, UK engineering graduate, and has spent much of his career developing products for consumers, industrial processes and medical devices, with a particular focus on diagnostics. Paul is a member of Science Group’s CTO Forum where explores issues having material impact on R&D organisations.

What our clients say

Janice Chen, PhD, Co-founder & CTO, Mammoth Biosciences

“Sagentia Medical brought excellent engineering capabilities to our projects, and we have greatly benefitted from our partnership.”

Philip Hand, Executive Chairman, Intelligent Fingerprinting

“Bringing advanced optical engineering skills to the table, Sagentia Medical worked quickly and effectively, driving focused and high-value improvements to the device.”

Joel Zuhars, VP of Research and Development, THINK Surgical

“Sagentia Medical brought a highly capable and well-integrated team to the table, along with a very sensible iterative development process. They worked closely with us to develop a differentiated system and enable us to bring the TMINI system to market.”

Simon J. Archibald, Chief Scientist, Integra LifeSciences

“Sagentia Medical’s work on the thermodynamics was a crucial step in translation of the product from prototype to manufacturing. I appreciated both the excellence of the work and having an external partner to educate our team on the physics.”

Careers

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Expert insights

Explore our case studies to find out about our exciting work across Medical and read our latest insights and white papers authored by our industry experts.

Locations

Sagentia is headquartered in the Cambridge, UK and has numerous offices throughout UK, Europe and North America.