Resume Makeover: What Not to Include on Your Resume as an Indian Job Seeker
Attention Indian job seekers! Are you including unnecessary information on your resumes? While reviewing resumes for positions during my...
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CRAMbridge blog is our musings on the state of healthcare, pharmaceuticals, eLearning, start-ups, and everything in between.
Latest blog entries are below.
The hype vs reality of VR enabled learning in pharma and biotech
Pandemic induced workplace disruptions have been keenly felt in employee training across pharmaceutical and biotech enterprises. Starting...
Crystallization in API manufacturing (Video)
Crystallization finds vast application in the synthesis and manufacturing of drug products such as API. Here’s an easy video to...
COVID-19: How infectious vs How fatal?
A video micronugget comparing the infectiousness and fatality rate of COVID-19 with other more well know diseases.
Quarantine. Where does the word come from?
A quick video micronugget from CRAMbridge showing the origins of the word “Quarantine”.
On the potential impact of linguistic nuances in regulatory interactions
The event A three-day pharmaceutical manufacturing conference hosted by ISPE in Mumbai in October 2018. The highlight of the event was...
Eliminating offline TOC and conductivity for WFI
While users agree that offline testing is significantly prone to sampling/testing errors and the influence of environment on both TOC and...
A leading voice in biopharma quality joins CRAMbridge.
Swapnil Ballal Swapnil Ballal, a quality and processes leader in India’s pharma and biopharma sectors has joined CRAMbridge as partner,...
Fire diamonds and workplace safety
The NFPA “fire diamond” is a recognized tool to help keep safety in labs. This Crambridge micro nugget introduces the fire diamond in...
Training for compliance vs. Training to think
While you read this article, about 60 deviations will be logged within global GMP environments*. Half of them would have been caused by...
MicroNuggets: efficient counterbalance to long, drawn-out, learning modules
What are learning MicroNuggets? Learning modules frequently try to do too much. They end up being long-winded and laborious, and run the...
Why do so many Indian startups seem to be founded by North Indian dudes?
Something jumped out at me in Yourstory magazine’s list of top 100 Indian startups and their founders. There seemed to be more Agarwals,...
Quality training as the anti-Jugaad
Is India really running pharma and biotech sweatshops? India is the market leader in high quality generic medicine. The drugs that people...
Lessons learnt from income tax and central excise audits
An unexpected notice on income tax and central excise audits The partnership firm that I run with my husband has been scrutinized by the...
A cure for cancer. Or a mega-yacht…Hmm
You will hear a lot of exciting catch-phrases about biomedical research and drug discovery for cancer in the news in the next few days....
Juno’s planned suicide is the craziest part of the super crazy Jupiter mission
A crazy Juno mission to Jupiter The Juno space mission to Jupiter is NASA’s most sophisticated project yet. Way more complex than the...
Fresh Biotech grads in India are being set up for an epic fail
One of the things I enjoy most is interacting with recent biotech graduates. I still remember how lost I was when I got out of college....
Sharapova’s hilarious explanations for why she doped
Photo by Getty Images So Maria Sharapova is in the news for all the wrong reasons. She came out and admitted that she had tested positive...
White middle-aged Americans are drowning in a Pharma industry-created nightmare called opioids
The good Opioids: Seven years back, unable to bear the excruciating pain after a C-section surgery, I pushed the nurse call button on my...
This is my most predictable post update. Ever!
Image: Andrew Burton/Getty Images Earlier this fall, I wrote about Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO and former hedge fund dude Martin Shkreli –...
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