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#1 29 December 2011 - 03:36 PM skanda 


Quark
Medicinal chemists are currently in a risky position and their future seems doughtful. This is the opinion of the majority of experts from what i have noticed. For example an article from ACS http://pubs.acs.org/....1021/ml200297a. Synthetic organic chemistry is gradually losing it's necessity and more biologics enter the pharma industry. It seems as if companies are no longer looking for more and better drugs but cheaper ones . Drugs that deal with Alzheimer and CNS agents are ignored because of their high costs. Can it be inferred from all this, that the time of medicinal chemists as the elite of pharmaceuticals is over? Anyhow, more and more people are unemployed and talented pharmaceutical scientists are being wasted. Thank you for your time.
Bonus article:
http://sciencecareer...aredit.a1100136
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#2 27 January 2012 - 11:30 AM Anders Hoveland 


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View Postskanda, on 29 December 2011 - 03:36 PM, said:

Medicinal chemists are currently in a risky position and their future seems doughtful. This is the opinion of the majority of experts from what i have noticed.


Much of the chemical industry is being outsourced to China, where the wages for highly educated chemists and engineers are much lower.
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