Employment biotech industry

Simone J. Rochfort completed her Ph.D. in marine natural products chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1996. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Jeffrey Wright, National Research Council of Canada, she returned to Australia to take up a research position with AstraZeneca R D Griffith University where she worked on the discovery of natural products for human pharmaceuticals. Dr. Rochfort s research in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries continued until 2004 when she joined the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. She is currently employed as a Principal Research Scientist and applies her natural products research interests to metabolomics and the substantiation of functional foods. 

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In this textbook, you will find updated facts and figures about the biotech industry, product approvals, and discussions of how biotechnology is applied in human and animal health care, and in industrial and environmental processes. We address how biotech is being employed in national security efforts as well as the ethical issues that are frequently debated when people discuss the use of biotechnology in health sciences. 

Market conditions (available candidates versus available openings), not to mention talent, experience, and luck, will dictate how much of a choice of potential employers the candidate will really have. Still, it s always a good idea to picture what an ideal situation would be as a benchmark to compare real opportunities with. Industrial research on small molecule therapeutics can take place in big pharma or at smaller companies, which may be called biotechs whether or not they also try to develop biologies. The alternative term, small pharma might also describe them, as we ve seen. 

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