ROLE OF MEDICAL AFFAIRS FROM R&D to COMMERCIALIZATION
Bringing a new pharmaceutical product to market is a unique process based on a number of requirements for supporting a product launch. For a research and development (R&D) company, launching a product into market may seem to be an issue for someone else to handle in the far-distant future and at a much later time. But even at laboratory or early development stages, biotechnology companies should understand the language of pharmaceutical companies and know how that industry operates. Doing so helps biotech companies make early decisions regarding their investigational products that could lead to future success. Here we focus on medical affairs, a critical part of the pharmaceutical industry. There is no real equivalent to medical affairs in biotechnology, yet…
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