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Offline eunChae

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how to be a medicinal chemist?
« on: August 23, 2009, 04:28:13 AM »
At universities in my country, there is not Medicinal Chemistry department or like that. I study chemistry now(undergraduate). However I wanna specialise in the field of medicinal chemistry and pursue a carrier in this field. Will it be a disadvantage for me comparing to the Medicinal chemistry graduates when applying jobs or universities abroad? if so, what should I do to equalize the situation and maybe to go one step further?
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Re: how to be a medicinal chemist?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2009, 07:19:41 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicinal_chemistry

Medicinal chemistry is a highly interdisciplinary science combining organic chemistry with biochemistry, computational chemistry, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, molecular biology, statistics, and physical chemistry.

If your intention is to follow a career in Medicinal chemistry and you can, within your chemistry degree structure select areas to study or major in, you should select options which align themselves with medicinal chemistry. Some postgraduate study could help as well.
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