While ensuring patient safety is a critical part of every step described above, corporate scientific professionals also play important roles in ensuring patient safety even after the product is in a customer’s hands:
- Medical and clinical personnelevaluate the safety of the new drug and review reports of side effects submitted by physicians once the product is on the market.
- Regulatory expertsensure that side effects are reported to the FDA.
Scientists and laboratory technicians monitor drug quality to ensure that no changes have occurred to the new drug that might affect its safe use by patients.