Rumi Young, M.ENG, RAC

Rumi Young, MENG, RAC is the Director of Regulatory Policy at Becton Dickinson (BD) responsible for US and Global Harmonization. In this role she leads a team that advances policies to speed time to market, promote innovation and ensure reasonable regulatory requirements for medical devices, diagnostics, and drug delivery combination products. Rumi joins BD from FDA where she spent four years in CDRH’s Division of Drug Delivery, General Hospital and Human Factors. As Assistant Director for Injection Devices, her team was responsible for the approval of drug delivery injection devices and combination products such as syringes, auto injectors, pen injectors, on-body injectors, and smart connected devices. Prior to FDA, Rumi worked at Genentech and AstraZeneca for eight years in combination product development. She has both a Bachelor’s in Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Masters in Engineering in Material Science from Cornell University.