We all know there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but what’s not always clear is the cost. The U.S. federal government in two of its incarnations recently put those in the life science industries on alert that the cost of doing business might go up to a degree that may surprise anyone who hasn’t been paying attention. FDA proposed recently to make freely available “de-identified and masked data derived from medical product applications,” citing as a “national priority” the need to improve “the efficiency and effectiveness of...

Julie Allen is founder and managing partner of Allen Executive Search (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin), whose focus is on recruiting for early-stage, venture-backed and small-to-medium-sized companies in the med-tech field. Earlier in her career, she was a director at global advertising firm Foote, Cone & Belding and also held leadership posts at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Parks.