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Jan 2025
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7 - Clinical Trials Management with Ava ...

Joint Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NC State
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Welcome back to The BME Grad Podcast! We hope you all had a restful winter break. We are excited to jump back into season 4 with an episode on clinical trial management with Ava Cook and Maya Cohn.

Ava has experience in clinical trials as an intern with Icon, a contract research organization, while Maya has experience in clinical trials with biotech company Regeneron. Devin Hubbard invited our guests to the podcast to discuss clinical research organizations, why biomedical engineers are uniquely suited to working in clinical trials, and how to find roles in this field.

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