Nothing makes an R&D director happier than providing a validated sound scientific dossier to his/her marketing team on a technology or formulation that has gone through months, if not years, of development.
From inception to market, there are endless meetings about progress, budgets, resource allocation and most of all, data generation. When you think about all of the time and energy you have spent on this one aspect of your pipeline, validating your work becomes paramount, so that it is universally accepted by not only the market place but by your management and investors as well. Ironically, this is the most crucial and usually the most expensive point of the project as a whole. What can you do to ensure that you are efficient in your success?
In order to properly validate your mechanism of action and support your claims, an outside lab is usually brought into the fray for good reason: you want an objective 3rd party verification of all you have done to this point. This will entail having all of your project management skills ready to go. This is akin to getting to the championship game in your favorite sport. The whole season now rides on how well you do in the next game or series. How do you position yourself for success? Below you will find some dos and don’ts that I have been faced with, both as a client and as a provider of clinical testing for personal care and cosmetic products.
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