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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

Drug Discovery World

Dr Thomas has a background in biochemistry research at Leicester, Cambridge, and Glaxo, after which she has had 25 years of pharmaceutical drug discovery and development experience from large Pharma (GSK) and SMEs. I owe so much to Franklin and many others.” See her interview with Megan Thomas at the Avacta Group Open Day.

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Calibre Scientific Expands European Presence and Chromatography Offering With AIT France Acquisition

The Pharma Data

25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Calibre Scientific is pleased to announce the acquisition of AIT France (“AIT”), a manufacturer and distributor of innovative consumables for analytical chemistry and chromatography. Headquartered in Paris, France, AIT supplies public and private researchers and pharmaceutical laboratories.

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Embarking on a Career in Drug Development

Alta Sciences

A: Drug development uses a lot of the same skills as forensic science—the analytical chemistry, the problem-solving—with just a different application. Learning about how drugs are developed and tested, and learning about the science behind the pharmaceutical industry, has been amazing. Q: What drew you to drug development?

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Beyond the Lab: Commercial Careers in Life Science

Elrig

I have a year long masters project based within a CRO’s analytical chemistry innovations department initially working in the lab. What scope is there for pursuing commercial life science roles without a PhD, but with an MSc that has aspects of commercial development in the pharmaceutical industry?

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Women in Stem with Dr Mrunal Jaywant

Drug Target Review

I started working as a trainee immediately after submitting my PhD thesis in Analytical chemistry to Pune university in India but initially felt immense pressure to prove myself, not only because I was a woman but also because there were very few PhD staff, in general. I am currently leading USP’s Nitrosamine workstream, globally.

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Transforming high-throughput screening with mass spectrometry

Drug Discovery World

HTS is widely used by pharmaceutical companies to identify compounds (or ‘hits’) that show pharmacological activity, which are used as starting points to optimise medicines during the drug discovery process. Keeping pace with synthetic chemistry HTE in support of drug molecule design . Mennen et al., Asperger, M. Hamester and M.

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BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Nov. 6

The Pharma Data

X4 Pharmaceuticals – Art Taveras was named CSO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Prior to that, Taveras was vice president of Small Molecule Drug Discovery and CMC Development at Biogen Idec, and Alantos Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Amgen in 2007. Venugopal most recently served as executive director at Intercept Pharmaceuticals.