Author: Maida Taylor
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Crime and Punishment: Counterfeit drugs
The pharmaceutical supply and distribution chain is increasing vulnerable to business and criminal abuses. On the micro level, there is a need to police abuse of prescription drugs through prescribing “pill mills.” On a macro level, counterfeit drugs jeopardize our ability to provide treatment t...
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Foreign Intrigue: Does outsourcing jobs mean outsourcing ethics?
The drug giant, Glaxo Smith Kline, has a lot of explaining to do. This month the company has suffered a public relations storm with charges of bribery, arrests of executives in China, and allegations of falsifying research results, to name a few. Here at home, GSK is also in hot wa...
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Cultural Fit: Are You Out of Place @ Your Work Place?
Another blind date. It started with a call from a recruiter. One of my former employers gave me name to colleague who was looking for a department head with women’s health experience. And like match.com (at least, how I imagine Match.com to be), we started the engagement wi...
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The Long Engagement: Waiting to Hear Back After the Interview
The New York Times published a graphic, the Beveridge Curve on March 6, 2013, noting that there is “A Shift Toward Higher Job Vacancy Rates.” The New York Times Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.The Beveridge Curve compares the job vacancy rate with the unemployment rate. ...
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Listening at Hearings at the FDA
Last month, I attended two days of hearings at the FDA campus in White Oak, MD. The first day concerned two neuroscience molecules, gabapentin and paroxetine, both being evaluated for the treatment of menopausal vasomotor symptoms.
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Networking -- Part III: Get out of the house!
The past two years, after my long term consulting jobs wrapped up, I found myself more than a bit dispirited. While “engaged,” my days were packed. Up at 5 am to do conference calls to Europe or Asia. Or up all night working on training slides. Hopping on planes to Paris,...
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Blog: Biospace Life Sciences Employment Outlook
BioSpace describes itself as “the leading online community for industry news and careers for life science professionals…[providing] quality recruitment and job seeking opportunities for professionals in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The site offers “a multi-face...
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Biotech Networking: Part II
Last month I met Toby Freedman, PhD, Author and Founder/President of Synapsis Search. (https://www.synapsissearch.com/about.htm)According to her bio:“ Toby launched Synapsis Search in 2006 after completing her book, Career Opportunities in Biotechnology and Drug Development (www.careersbiote...
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Prescription Drug Crimes: Compounding -- Part V
I am sure everyone who reads these blogs on Bio Careers is familiar with the on-going story about the outbreak of fungal meningitis traced to contaminated compounded corticosteroids used to treat back pain. The index case was described in the New England Journal of Medicine (Nov 29,2012) as a man in...
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Networking: Where I have been this month
I have been trying to network…meet other scientists working in the pharmaceutical field. And the Bay Area (aka Biotech Bay) has an overwhelming number of events each week. I recently attended two career talks sponsored by the Association of Women in Science (https://www.awis.org), and ...
