Description:
Investigate how medicines interact with the body. Determine how medicines work so they can be used effectively and safely.
Duties:
• Design, plan, and conduct experiments to determine how medicines are broken down, absorbed, and spread through the a body.
• Design, plan, and conduct experiments to determine how medicines affect the body.
• Design, plan, and conduct experiments to determine how medicines interact, and how these interactions affect the body.
• Analyze data from the experiments.
• Record and publish the results.
Where and When:
• Usually work in a laboratory.
• Usually work 40 hours per week.
What or Who They Work With:
• May work with laboratory technicians.
• May work with medical professionals to determine what medicines need to be studied, or what new medicines should be developed.
Education and Training:
• Must have a Doctorate's degree. It may be a PhD in pharmacology, or a PharmD from a pharmacy school.
• May have both a PhD and a PharmD.
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Related School Subjects:
Science, math, writing, and reading.
Print:
Read:
Inside Your Outside: All About the Human Body by Tish Rabe
The Apothecary by Christine Petersen
You Wouldn’t Want to be Sick in the 16th Century! by Kathryn Senior
Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine (Graphic Library: Inventions and Discovery) by Katherine E. Krohn
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Sources:
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/pharmacologist_job_description.htm
http://healthcareers.about.com/od/medicalindustryjobs/p/How-To-Become-A-Pharmacologist.htm
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