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In this episode of Vigilance Unplugged, Rena Pandit recounts how a chance move to the UK turned a hospital pharmacist into a global pharmacovigilance leader. Through vivid scenes, late-night case processing, building teams from scratch, and learning in EMA corridors—she reveals the unexpected turns that shaped a career dedicated to patient safety. Rena traces the industry’s arc from paper and fax to paperless systems, vendor partnerships, and the looming promise of AI and predictive safety. Along the way she shares hard-earned insights on inspection readiness, vendor trust, and the fragile foundations of ICSR work, inviting listeners into the tension between legal duty and meaningful impact. Practical, candid, and human, this conversation closes with a call to invest in yourself: take risks, learn the fundamentals, and lead with curiosity as the future of life sciences reshapes how we protect patients. Tune in to hear the stories behind the science.

Join Indy as he sits down with David Kolosic, whose unexpected detour, from a small Slovenian town and a failed pharmacy exam to quality assurance, regulatory work, and eventually a pivotal role at Veeva, reveals how chance, curiosity and grit can remake a career. Through candid stories of internships, risky moves to Barcelona, and the excitement of building Veeva Safety, David uncovers the human choices behind technical change. Hear how data, platform thinking and a bold AI roadmap are reshaping pharmacovigilance, why standardizing information matters more than hype, and how one company’s values turned customers into fans. This episode blends personal resilience with clear-eyed predictions for the next five years in life sciences. Tune in for practical advice for early-career listeners, about networking, soft skills and leading by influence, and for anyone curious about where technology, regulation and patient safety intersect.

In this episode of Vigilance Unplugged, Eric Sandor takes us from the code-filled days of COBOL to the cutting edge of enterprise AI, narrating a career that bends technology, regulation and deep personal experience into a single mission: better, more precise patient care. You’ll follow his early work on groundbreaking pharmacovigilance systems, the global projects that shaped his view of safety and the bold leap from Accenture into entrepreneurship. Eric’s story is vivid and human a founder wrestling with the promise and the practicality of automation, a man who left corporate life only to confront heartbreaking personal loss and an innovator who built PVAI ahead of its time. The episode peels back the curtain on failure and reinvention, exposing the messy engineering, the tenacity and the lessons that come from trying to change an industry from the inside out. By the end you’ll see his vision for a standardized tech stack, integrated multimodal data, and the rise of precision medicine, a future where pharma becomes a trusted, data-driven guide for individual patients. This is a conversation about discovery, risk and the human stakes of technological change; listen for practical insights and a hopeful, urgent case for reimagining how we turn data into care.

It’s morning, there’s coffee and a curious postgraduate steps into a lunch-and-learn that will change everything. Pav Rishiraj remembers the moment he fell into pharmacovigilance a world of filing cabinets, meticulous case work and fast deadlines and the small risks that became the building blocks of a remarkable career. Follow Pav from manual PSURs and late-night dossiers to leadership roles at global firms, through Brexit uncertainty and the leap into representing industry at the ABPI. Along the way he learns hard lessons about trust, mentorship and the discipline behind consistent performance and how impostor syndrome can turn into a quiet, steady courage. Hear how Pav stitches technical mastery to human skills; communication, purpose and curiosity and why he believes the future of safety depends on pharmacogenomics, real-world data, and leaders who know when to zoom in and when to zoom out. This episode is a candid, fast-paced narrative about learning, risk and the small choices that shape a life in life sciences.

It’s back — the same conversations you loved, with a new name. Vigilance Unplugged explores the real stories behind careers in safety and risk management — and asks what’s next for the world of vigilance and life sciences.   8nvkeXRXCUaOLbO3l1rf