Thursday, August 11, 2011

What grad school to work for pharmaceutical companies?

Pharmacy school is one path to work with the pharmaceutical industry (a few of my classmates now run some early clinical trials for a couple pharmaceutical companies), but more commonly pharmacy school prepares its graduates to work as pharmacists. You could get a Ph.D. in biochem (more than a few of my professors in school had taken that route and worked in industry for a number of years before joining with the school), or you could get a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences (you'd likely do a lot with developing drug delivery systems and things of that nature, at least that's what the grad students at my school had a tendency to work on). Pharmacology has Ph.D. programs as well. A friend of mine actually completed her Ph.D. in genetics last year and was hired to research pharmacogenomic applications for a pharmaceutical company. Basically, there are a lot of disciplines that are utilized by the pharmaceutical industry. Try poking around on their websites to see what types of educational qualifications they're currently looking for.

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