"CAREERS IN CHEMISTRY"
Medicinal Manufacturers:
Making Strides Within the Preservation of Your Health
| Medicinal Chemistry is the application of chemical research techniques to the synthesis of pharmaceuticals. Medicinal chemists aid in the creation of drug compounds and develop of new and improved prescription drugs that are on today's market and used by people every day. | |
| Medicinal Chemists use certain Chemistry such as Bio-Chemistry, Organic Chemistry,Molecular Biology, Analytical Chemistry, and pharmacology within their field in order to form the compounds needed to make prescription drugs. They use these types of chemistry to evaluate what side effects may occur, the absorption of drugs, and the metabolic sythesis of drugs. |
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