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Women in Stem with Dr Mrunal Jaywant

Drug Target Review

I started working as a trainee immediately after submitting my PhD thesis in Analytical chemistry to Pune university in India but initially felt immense pressure to prove myself, not only because I was a woman but also because there were very few PhD staff, in general.

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WhyIScience Q&A: How a chemist moved to the business side of science

Broad Institute

By Corie Lok April 16, 2025 Diane Diehl leads internal business development at Count Me In. After earning a PhD in analytical chemistry from Indiana University, Diehl worked for more than 20 years at Dow AgroSciences and then at Waters Corporation, a chemical instrumentation and software company.

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New Draft Guidance Provides Detailed (and Burdensome) Recommendations for Chemical Assessments to Support Medical Device Biocompatibility

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Since the first issuance of FDA’s guidance Use of International Standard ISO 10993-1, “Biological evaluation of medical devices – Part 1: Evaluation and testing within a risk management process” in 2016, sponsors submitting premarket submissions to FDA have had the option of using these techniques to evaluate certain biocompatibility endpoints.