Anyone got any advice for someone looking to pivot to pharma? I work in legal/compliance, I have no pharma background and minimal personal knowledge of pharma / science in general but of course willing to learn! I have a broad understanding of regulations obviously but any advice is welcome 🙏

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Do you have a JD? You can take a cert / online course on relevant regs for compliance. Legal is a separate dept from compliance, so if you are thinking of a counsel role.. that's totally different.

There are quite a few companies looking for people to work with contract development in pharmacovigilance for safety data exchange agreements. They also have legal teams in every pharma company. You could also look for a compliance role and once you are in the company, work on developing skills for other areas of interest. Most big pharma companies will help you with that type of career development once you are in.

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