Develop new medicines in biotechnology industry
Would you like to develop biological tests in cellular or tissue systems
or in whole animals and use them to identify new medicines?
Pharmacologists have a key role in designing these tests that are essential
to select compounds with the characteristics to become a new medicine.
These tests involve measures of effectiveness and safety as well as for
duration of effect. A medicine must reach the desired site of action and
remain there for a sufficient length of time to produce the beneficial
effect. The medicine must then be eliminated from the body without producing
side effects. The pharmacologist designs tests to study the absorption
and removal of the medicine from the body.
Are you a team player and enjoy experimental work, presenting
your results and like the chance to be involved in developing a new medicine?
Pharmacologists in industry produce papers, which are used to obtain approval
of medicines by regulatory authorities as well for scientific publication
in journals like the British Journal of Pharmacology. You will attend
scientific meetings round the world to present the results of your work.
A scientist in industry at ICI Pharmaceuticals, James Black, was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in discovering medicines for
the treatment of heart disease.
You can enter such organisations with a first degree as a research assistant
or having studied further to obtain an MSc or PhD.
For further details go to the Association
of the British Pharmaceutical Industry web site.
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