I do not think the concept of animal testing is unethical in general. However, it could become unethical if we treat the animals inappropriately by not designing the experiments correctly. For example...

Very interesting debate. As others have stated both are necessary. Short term and long term research is needed for the patients and stakeholders of medical devices. As long as academia and industry bo...

So as far as biomaterials go, the selection process has both a technical perspective but from a project management perspective needs to align marketing/sales, cost, scheduling. regulatory and risk. Th...

I agree but I also think a good project manager needs a few critical characteristics. One would be able to organize the scope, cost, schedule and resources. Being able to create a plan of the critical...

I think project management of medical devices has some few unique aspects in relation to other types of projects. i would like to discuss three areas; product complexity, uncertainty and risk/product ...

I have been involved in several combination products and what I find interesting is that the pharma drug development and the device development seem to be treated as separate projects. An example is t...

Most of my work experience has been in industry with several pharmaceutical companies and now cell and gene. I can understand how many students feel comfortable with the academic world and for some th...

Okay let me bring in a different way of looking at this. Generalists versus specialists. Due to creating new knowledge whether in BME or in any field, there will always be a tendency to want to initia...

I think one of the biggest impacts is the limited supply of components to manufacturing especially from Asia. The crisis has impacted organizations to underproduce with plant shutdowns. Supply chains ...