By
Richard Friary, Schering-Plough Research Institute, Kenilworth, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Description
This book is intended to help newly graduated chemists, particularly organic chemists, at all levels from bachelors to post-doctorates,
find careers in the North American pharmaceutical industry. It will serve as a practical, detailed guiedbook for job seekers as well
a reference work for faculty advisers, research supervisors, development officers, employment agents, and personnel managers in the industry.
The book gathers in a single volume the fundamentals of getting an industrial job as a medicinal or process chemist, and covers all aspects
of a chemist's job--scientific, financial, and managerial--within a pharmaceutical/biotechnology company. Other scientists looking for
jobs as analytical or physical chemists and even biochemists and biologists will find the book useful. The valuable appendix is a unique
compendium of 365 commercial, governmental, or non-profit institutions that comprise the North American pharmaceutical industry.
Audience:
Undergraduates majoring in chemistry and biochemistry, graduate students in organic and medicinal chemistry, post-doctoral chemical researchers,
chemistry professors, career development officers in academia, independent employment agents serving the industry, and personnel managers
in the industry.
