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Just curious about other people's career paths and what kinds of responsibilities they've had.
I've been industry for about 6 years now. My B.S. and M.S. were in biochemistry, where I did some site-directed mutagenesis and protein purifications. My first job was as a synthetic/medicinal chemist, totally unrelated to my masters research. The job I have now brought me into HPLC and LC-MS, and I've also had to be in charge of a cGMP process on the kg scale purifying a natural product at our plant in Costa Rica (we're based in Texas). At this small company I've helped develop the process, edited the batch record, manufactured the product, developed the assays to test its quality, purity and ADME, and soon I'll have to validate them (hopefully I can just write the protocol and make some poor newbie do all the work
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I've heard when you work for a large company you have a set of responsibilities that you do all the time, be it process development, method development or QC, whereas at small startups you have to do a little (or a lot) of everything.
I've been told I should've gotten, or should still get a PhD, but I think I've enjoyed what I've done so far without it. Maybe I will when we get gobbled up by big pharma and my stock options pay off so I can an independently wealthy grad student
Well that's my professional story...anyone else?
I've been industry for about 6 years now. My B.S. and M.S. were in biochemistry, where I did some site-directed mutagenesis and protein purifications. My first job was as a synthetic/medicinal chemist, totally unrelated to my masters research. The job I have now brought me into HPLC and LC-MS, and I've also had to be in charge of a cGMP process on the kg scale purifying a natural product at our plant in Costa Rica (we're based in Texas). At this small company I've helped develop the process, edited the batch record, manufactured the product, developed the assays to test its quality, purity and ADME, and soon I'll have to validate them (hopefully I can just write the protocol and make some poor newbie do all the work
)I've heard when you work for a large company you have a set of responsibilities that you do all the time, be it process development, method development or QC, whereas at small startups you have to do a little (or a lot) of everything.
I've been told I should've gotten, or should still get a PhD, but I think I've enjoyed what I've done so far without it. Maybe I will when we get gobbled up by big pharma and my stock options pay off so I can an independently wealthy grad student
Well that's my professional story...anyone else?
