A great place to look for information like this is clinicaltrials.gov. For example, there is a current study investigating the effects of hMSC infusions in persons with Alzheimer's disease. This study...

When a drug or device has just been approved, the first batch of people to take it afterwards are in a unique position. The product was approved, so obviously its safety and efficacy has been proven. ...

I think this is a great point, I have had similar thoughts during my PhD course work as well. I like being involved on the research side of things but it can be isolating and I think having contact wi...

Both jobs can have a lot of overlap in knowledge I think. The difference is that marketing has a wider umbrella of tasks and skills that they may be responsible for. Sales has a more direct job. They ...

I feel like I could be very good at Meeting Services. Dr. Simon explained how this department takes care of trade shows. I feel like at a trade show, the most important skills to have are excellent pr...

Lets say you were looking for a job in marketing with your current background as a biomedical engineer, specifically in Branding. Do you feel as though you could be a good fit in that department? What...

I think that getting an MBA as an engineer is a waste of time, especially if you are actually a talented and smart engineer. Networking is the most important skill for an aspiring business person. You...

I think it would be good to start an S-Corp because of the legal protections in place. The partnerships seem like they could get messy on a personal level very easily. I would be worried about partner...

It is interesting that corporations are treated like people recently in the US. The historical precedent for this is relatively recent. The real problem that I think exists with corporations being tre...

I do not work in industry because I am still a graduate student, but as someone who TA's in BME courses, I can see very clearly which student have an instinct for root cause analysis. Many students ru...

I agree with the responder above, that often the device being developed should have started with input from the potential customer. The development of a device is for a user, and it seems obvious that...

I think that this is a classic government/bureaucratic loophole because if the Government had done anything differently, there would have been a massive legal issue with every product on the market at...

Others in this thread have touched on this but I think that product development is more important. Obviously, both are vital and necessary, but that is only because things can always go wrong and mist...

Let's say you have designed a new adhesive for internal use to adhere a medical device into the body during surgery. Would the classification of the adhesive depend on the adhesive only or does the ap...

@alexbryant-harden I think this is a great choice and I want to elaborate a little bit. The sterility of some product is obviously important because if it is compromised, a patient could develop an in...