For more than a decade, students at both the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the University of Maryland, College Park have used the America’s Got Regulatory Science competition to develop tools, standards and approaches to assess the safety, efficacy, quality and performance of products regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Come next month, winners of the 11th annual iteration of this competition — which took place in February at the state university system’s School of Pharmacy in Baltimore — will get to visit the FDA’s Office of Regulatory Science and Innovation (ORSI). This year’s winners of the competition, hosted by the University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (M-CERSI), came from the system’s School of Medicine (UMSOM).
Known as the “Clinical Lab Scientists,” this group of graduate students emerged from an octet of competing teams whose presentations covered topics like drugs, devices, apps, tobacco products and AI — all with the intersection of how products relevant to these subjects can help improve public health.
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