Starting out in the pharma industry: Essential knowledge for life scientists - Paperback

by C. F. Harrison (Author)

Bored of academia? Sick of publish-or-perish and the grant-chasing treadmill?

• An introduction to the entire drug development and manufacturing process. We examine how a drug goes from chemical entity to a final pharmaceutical; how drug batches are made, checked, and released to the market; we look at the marketing process, pharmacovigilance, and how processes change over time.
• Industry expectations. We look at the knowledge you should learn during the first few weeks and months, attributes you should be cultivating, and how to work effectively with your manager.
• Industry skills you need to succeed. We cover skills such as effective communication in all its forms, how to attend and run a meeting; how to organise information, how to cope with the sudden demands on your time and how to plan and execute projects succesfully.
• Starting and building your pharmaceutical career. We describe the most common entry roles taken by life scientists entering industry and how you can develop your career beyond that initial step.
• Finally our terminology list helps explain the multitude of pharmaceutical terms which you will come across in your career.