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RE: Public vs. Private Companies

The key differences between public and private companies mainly revolve around how exclusive both are and how each succeeds with respect to their publ...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Inc. vs. LLC in the US

A medical device company with only 50 employees and $10 million in revenue would classify as a small business (less than 100 people) and therefore sho...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Exercise your research skills

The company I chose to analyze is Novartis since they came out with a breakthrough product known as the KYMRIAH in 2017 that specializes in immunother...

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RE: Issues with the Quality Department

I currently work in manufacturing at a cell-therapy company, and my duties during the production process includes collaboration with the quality depar...

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RE: How Quality Departments React to Audits

Both medical device companies I have worked at announce all FDA audits in a company-wide email a few days prior and the day of the audit. This is sai...

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RE: Discussion Topic: The cost of Quality

It goes without say that the implementation of a QC/QA system in a pharmaceutical/medical device company is a vital necessity. With costs aside, the ...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Antibiotic-Releasing Hip Stem

An antibiotic-releasing hip stem would undergo a 510k pathway as it classifies as a Class II combination device of a drug and device-based product. I...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Revamping the 510(k) Process

The article posted with this week's lecture: "Medical Devices and the Public's Health" by the Institute of Medicine (IOC), gives an overview of the IO...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Android app for measuring blood glucose

An online search for a blood-glucose monitoring-system came across the FDA-approved Bluestar app by Welldoc. It is a Class II device (not a combinati...

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RE: Ethics of Animal Testing

Most would agree that animal testing is indeed unethical, the real question should be: to what extent can we reduce the unethical treatment towards an...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Brand new biomaterial

Biocompatibility testing occurs in the forms of cytotoxicity, irritation, hemocompatibility, sensitization, carcinogenicity, or any other biological e...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Beyond experimental design issues

The main pitfalls with outsourcing to a long-distance university would be delays in the project, as mentioned in lecture, in that "animals take time t...

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RE: Thoughts on BME degree, "a little of everything"

The upside of the broadened coursework associated with BME is the versatility one acquires throughout their academic career. Having background experi...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Practical vs. Informational courses

I usually decide if a ratio of this sort is acceptable based on its quantification. For example, the value of a ratio of 10:0 is 10*0=0, a ratio of 9...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Academia vs. Industry

The closest I've come to working in academia was at the NJIT CHEN building for about 2 years, where I simply assisted PhD students in their research. ...

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