Regulatory Affairs for Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals & Biologics

Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Partnership Development
6
Timeline
  • January 7, 2025
    Experience start
  • March 29, 2025
    Experience end
Experience
3/15 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Business & management, Hospital, health, wellness & medical, Science, Trade & international business

Experience scope

Categories
Healthcare Market research Market expansion Product or service launch Law and policy
Skills
biopharmaceuticals regulatory affairs marketing medical devices clinical research regulatory sciences pharmaceuticals research
Learner goals and capabilities

The Master of Science in Regulatory Affairs is designed to deepen students' understanding of the global compliance requirements for the development, marketing approval, and utilization of highly regulated products, including food, drugs, biologics, and medical devices.


Students declare concentrations in General Regulatory Affairs, Operational Regulatory Affairs, Strategic Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Research Regulatory Affairs, International Regulatory Affairs, or Regulatory Compliance.


This capstone course challenges students to exercise their ability to apply global regulatory requirements into submission-ready documents and broadly applicable regulatory science solutions.

Learners

Learners
Graduate
Intermediate levels
20 learners
Project
40 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Deliverables are negotiable, and will seek to align the needs of the students and the organization.

Some final project deliverables might include:

  1. A 10-15 minute slide deck presentation on key findings and recommendations
  2. A detailed report including their research, analysis, insights and recommendations
Project timeline
  • January 7, 2025
    Experience start
  • March 29, 2025
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Student projects can range from clinical trial design, FDA or international submissions + reporting, drug classifications, to regulatory market research or adverse event profiling.


Example projects include:

FDA Regulatory Pathway Strategy

A Greek medical innovation company created a device where heart failure patients will be able to self-manage their condition and interact with their doctor, preventing any dangerous events. Students will research the FDA regulatory procedures required to enter the US market with this device and create a detailed regulatory pathway strategy.


Clinical Trial Design

The organization is an early-stage company engaged in the development of an eye blood flow circulation device. The device assesses and monitors sight-saving eye blood flow circulation during the aging process.

Students are challenged to write the protocol for a clinical trial. The protocol document will need to detail all aspects of the trial: its background, rationale, objectives, design, methodology, statistical analysis plan, and organization.


Communications Strategy for Medical Device- Pre-FDA Approval

The organization is an early-stage company engaged in the development of therapeutic device to reduce inflammation. The product is currently pending FDA approval. Organizational leaders seek student support to develop a communication strategy to promote the product effectively, but stay within FDA and legal guidelines as to not jeopardize the approval process. The desired outcome of the collaboration is an FDA compliant communication strategy for organizational leaders to implement on the website ahead of full FDA approval, including language and actions to be used and avoided.


We invite you to share your projects for consideration. Please include a brief summary of your organization, mission, and the regulatory affairs problem or topic you would like to address.