chemistry and pharmacology

I have a PhD in Pharmacology — not a pharmD— after earning a BS in Biochemistry. I I think of both as being more biological in that you’re thinking about how chemicals interact at the molecular level. At the graduate level, pharmacology will be in a medical school not a chemistry department. Medicinal chemistry is a related field in chemistry. Traditionally Pharmacology included a lot of how the body metabolizes chemicals and animal studies, but at the PhD level in most modern departments, the research is more creative and mechanistic akin to cell biology or cancer biology or neuroscience in my case.

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04/28/2025 18:36

Subject: chemistry and pharmacology

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Anonymous wrote:Either is a great pathway to a variety of careers, including working for a pharmaceutical company, which can be very lucrative. This is the type of major where you will get a job if you are successful in most undergrad programs. A student coming from the University of Arizona or Brown with an undergrad in pharmacy will have similar opportunities and outcomes for job placement. They will both be making more money than a kid graduating from Harvard with a degree in sociology.

As a chem major myself, you will need more than an undergrad degree to get a good job in chem. The track can be very academia focused.

The post isn't implying that they will land as a senior director of regulatory at Eli Lilly first year out of college, its saying they can get a job that will pay 100K as a cog in one of the companies and continue to grow and figure it out.

Not with a bachelors in chem. ChemE or Materials E (which also requires a lot of undergrad chem), yes, but even then the best jobs are for those with masters or PhD.

An undergrad Chem E isn't landing a 100k job out of college either. A PhD, maybe.

But a Chem E will land the $75-80K job right out of college and move up without needing their MS/PHD within 5 years.