Hey I agree that this is true but it also makes me worry about products coming from the EU. Due to the fact that the process is quicker and easier are product equally safe? I can't imagine shortened/n...

Hey gh56, There is a graduate course on BioMEMs with Perez and it is very interesting where we read plenty of articles about the current practices. Yes I have been fascinated by 3D printing for a long...

Hi Andrew, Yes this is a very common trend, that depends on company size but. My company is fortunate enough to have comparative medicine onsite so they do a lot of our pre-clinical animal studies but...

Hey, I also work in the pharmaceutical industry but I try to keep my self up to date with 3D printing for regenerative medicine along with BioMEMS. These two trends are huge and I personally think rea...

My company also has rules against gift giving for protection against lawsuits. Personally I think instead of restricting the process they should just ban it. Doctors shouldn't have to be bought and sh...

I find that to be very surprising as I did not know verbal agreements were something that is acknowledged by the law. The quote above says "as long as there is enough evidence" but what is enough evid...

I thought this course was very useful as well and I am already working in industry. I liked that you showed us every division within medical devices and their importance. Honestly I wish I took it bef...

As a lot of people have mentioned choosing your team members is not that realistic in the real world. People are just assigned projects based on their role. It would be best and helpful if the person ...

Hey, Thanks for the link. If I were to start my own company I would go for a matrix organiation as it makes the most sense to me. I think the combination of functional organziation and project base di...

I am not sure what type of organization my job is. It seems to be a mixture of functional and matrix. Project managers are assigned to a project from their manager and the project can expand to differ...

As I was going through the lecture I realized a lot of risk management is done before the product hits the market or done on the company side. This made me think of labels and instructions for use. I ...

Wow, that is very interesting. I didn't know that you had to pay to view standards but it makes sense. As Kaitlin said they are essentially doing you a service by helping you stay in compliance. It is...

In pharma risk analysis deals with biologics so all suggestions and concerns from the team are used to create the animal study. For example we recently were working on a drug and we feared it would ha...

I think mistakes should be taken into consideration when making a gantt chart.There should be room for error for materials and even in the lab. There should be a soft deadline and a hard one with week...

I think there are pros and cons to outsourcing and it is dependent on your device and companies. Some companies lack infrastructure, or manpower and have to outsrouce others don't and keep it inhouse....