Job$ in the Drug Indu$try: A Career Guide for Chemists

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.

Learn How To:

Discover the 12 permanent, big-pharma jobs for B.S. chemistsUse the 500+ company index to locate potential employersTrack pharma openings with 190+ corporate and chemist-specific job banksAdd industry veterans to your employment networkFind the 50+ companies offering paid summer internships to studentsInclude the one resume item that wins interviews for B.S. and M.S. chemistsExpress a knowledgeable preference for drug discovery or developmentResearch over 360 drug companies through their Web sitesDiscover the 70+ firms offering stock purchase plans or stock options¾and which two represent big pharmaFind out your salary offer in time to negotiate your wages

ENTICEMENTS: WHY ORGANIC CHEMISTS WORK
IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

ELEMENTS OF DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT

JOBS IN THE DRUG INDUSTRY

DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHEMICAL RESEARCH:
COMMON FEATURES

DISCOVERY RESEARCH: MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

CHEMICAL DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGE IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS

QUALIFYING AND SEARCHING FOR JOBS IN THE DRUG INDUSTRY

EVALUATING COMPANIES AND JOB OFFERS

APPENDIX A
Arthur C. Cope Award
ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
The Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry
of Natural Products
Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry
Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research
in Synthetic Methods
International Aspirin Prize for Solidarity through Chemistry

Geographical Index of the North American
Pharmaceutical Industry
Name Index of the North American
Pharmaceutical Industry