[acuben]

just wondering, who is it that research on new drug/medicine?
would it be chemical engineer ?
or pharmacist?

do pharmacists have enough knowledge to research a new drug? or is all they do learn about drugs that's being sold?

[fledarmus]

Me 

Actually, it takes a lot of people to research new drugs. As far as chemistry goes, they are mostly medicinal chemists or synthetic organic chemists. Chemical engineers don't usually get involved until a drug candidate has been identified and it needs to be scaled up for clinical trials.

I know that there are some people trained as pharmacists that are hired by the large pharmaceutical companies, but I'm really not sure where they are in the drug discovery process. My guess would be someplace in the pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic side of in vivo testing, evaluating exposure of animals to the drug and translating that to their expected effect in humans.

[JGK]

Medicinal chemists -drug design
Synthetic Chemists - drug synthesis
Physical chemists - base properties of new druge
Pharmacologists - drug efficacy studies
Pharmacists - drug formulation
Analytical chemists - measurement and quantification of the new drug in vivo and in-vitro

Not to methoin the host of biologists/biochemistsdoctors and nurses involved in the clinical trials procedures

and chemical and process engineers involved in mass production.

And this list is by no means comprehensive!

[acuben]

wow thanks for the detailed reply 

they certainly helped !