The 13th Annual MSL Society Conference was held in Miami, Florida, from October 13–14, 2025, and included a workshop addressing career transitions for Medical Science Liaisons amid significant pharmaceutical workforce disruptions. With 128 layoff rounds reported in the first half of 2025—an increase of approximately 32 percent year over year (1)—the session provided practical … [Read more...]
Harnessing Publicly Available Bibliometric Tools: Empowering Medical Science Liaisons
Aspiring Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) and MSLs in career transition often face the challenge of staying competitive without access to proprietary tools or institutional resources. Yet, they must demonstrate strategic thinking, scientific fluency, and familiarity with the research landscape to break into or return to the pharmaceutical industry. In this context, publicly … [Read more...]
How the Competing Values Framework (CVF) Can Help MSLs Understand Corporate Culture and Succeed
To succeed and find fulfillment in the biopharmaceutical industry, medical science liaisons (MSLs) need more than scientific know-how. They also require essential interpersonal skills like emotional intelligence and navigating corporate culture. One invaluable tool for grasping these cultures is the Competing Values Framework (CVF) [1, 2]. My first encounter with the CVF was … [Read more...]
How MSL Candidates Can Use the Engineering Design Process and ChatGPT to Prepare for Clinical Paper Presentations
Introduction Medical Science Liaisons typically need to prepare and deliver a presentation on a clinical article as part of the interview process for new roles. When seeking new opportunities, it might be necessary to prepare several such presentations for different companies over a short period during an active job search. Commonly, one may have a week or less to prepare … [Read more...]
Flexible Work and Universal Design for Medical Science Liaison Diversity and Inclusion
Introduction I took a sustainability and corporate social responsibility course during my Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Arizona State University. The focus of the course taught by Dr. Reynold Byers was on profitability, increasing a firm’s sustainability, social responsibility, and the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit (PPP). For a class project, … [Read more...]
Do Medical Science Liaisons have a role in Empowering Arizona Health Systems to Address Unmet Needs in Respiratory Diseases?
While pursuing my Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at the WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, I used the opportunity of class projects to explore how I could elevate my value as an MSL by integrating learnings from my coursework. In May 2021, I completed my MBA in the Professional Flex program with a concentration in the Business of … [Read more...]
Developing a Sustainable Medical Affairs Department in Regenerative Medicine
The MSL Society's recent issue, March 2021, was focused on diversity and inclusion (D&I). For my sustainability and corporate social responsibility course in Spring 2020, I pondered on some of these sustainability, diversity, and inclusion issues within the medical science liaison and medical affairs career. The course was taught by Dr. Reynold Byers, a supply chain … [Read more...]