I agree that it is critical to choose a model that offers translatability to ensure therapies/devices being tested will actually be safe in humans. However, I would like to bring up the ethical standp...

A topic that has not been addressed yet is how risk tolerance influences academic and industrial regulation. Typically, industries have faced stringent regulation and oversight, as pre-clinical studie...

The responses thus far have already encompassed the feelings of guilt and potential reputational impacts, in addition to financial consequences when research is not finished. However, there is another...

Variance can definitely be a problem of poor estimation, but it can also reflect the health of a project in terms of its human and organizational aspects. If there are consistent schedule variances ea...

I think the stakeholder groups brought up thus far are all legitimate options; however, a stakeholder group that is often overlooked in these discussions is regulators and healthcare providers. If a m...

To preface, I am still an undergraduate student, but I am somewhat familiar with various project management tools. Thus, I thought I would weigh in here. Specifically, in medical device development, I...

I do agree that firm regulations are critical to the medical device industry; however, I do think a balance needs to be struck between safety and the opportunity to bring innovations to market. Ultima...

As someone also interested in academia, I have thoughts about being a successful professor. I believe a successful professor should have prior experience outside of academia in their respective field,...

These are all excellent points regarding what defines academia and industry. However, I do have a different take. I personally do prefer academia over industry. As you all had touched upon, academia o...