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Column: In the Pipeline Does it matter whether or not a pharmaceutical company is run by a chemist? |
Chemistry World July 2008 Kevin Rogers |
What future for small molecule therapy? Pharmaceutical companies overlook bench chemists at their peril |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
We need more scientists in politics Scientist Michael Brooks stood for parliament at the last election against an MP who favours homeopathy and medical astrology. He lost. Should we worry? |
Chemistry World September 2006 Yfke Hager |
Careers: Analytical Expertise After years of jumping between chemistry jobs, Adam Hold created his dream career by setting up his own company to provide analytical services. |
Chemistry World April 2, 2013 Kerek Lowe |
From lab to leader Here's a topic that always gets people arguing: how much of a scientist should the chief executive of a biopharma company be? |
Chemistry World August 2007 Yfke Hage |
Careers: Analytical attraction Adele Patterson is devoted to helping new chemists build their own careers but nothing will keep her out of the lab. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm. |
Chemistry World November 2009 |
Column: Undercover academic Good laboratory techniques are key skills for a chemistry graduate. All chemists need an appropriate level and range of practical skills. |
Chemistry World August 28, 2015 Derek Lowe |
A risky business How much of a risk is it to work in an organic chemistry lab? Back when I was first beginning bench work in graduate school, I was home during the holidays and telling some lab stories. |
Chemistry World December 2011 Derek Lowes |
Column: In the pipeline Everyone knows what a bad lab looks like. But is there an opposite design, one that everyone would agree is the right place to do research? |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
Chemistry World July 2006 |
Careers: Work, Rest and Play A thirst for new challenges led chemist Marek Klunduk into a scientific career with the petfood division of Mars. |
Chemistry World February 2007 Yfke Hager |
Careers: Political Science Nick Green loves the varied nature of his job as science policy manager at the Royal Society, which sees him talking to politicians and scientists. Just how does a chemist make the switch from laboratory research to science policy? |
Chemistry World September 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author remembers leaving the ivory towers of academe to trade 'unusual and beautiful' for 'useful' |
Chemistry World June 22, 2015 Philip Ball |
A coat of many colors As every school child knows, scientists are men in white coats. |
Chemistry World January 2, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Fear of the unknown My mental file drawer labelled 'Terrible Reagents I Have Known' is even larger than the one called 'Lunatics I Have Worked With and their Life-Threatening Ideas'. We organic chemists really do work with some terrible chemicals, and it's up to us to keep them from causing havoc. |
Chemistry World June 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline The author, a medicinal chemist working on preclinical drug discovery, takes a look at the differences between chemists and biologists working on the same team. |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Stabilizing Forces Recognizing the role of research professionals in today's laboratory organizations is important not only to the individuals who contribute their services but also to the research enterprise as a whole. |
Chemistry World July 30, 2015 Derek Lowe |
A precision instrument? How much do medicinal chemists and their biology colleagues really trust each other's data? In the end, they have to, because drug discovery is a team sport. |
Chemistry World July 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline This is not a good time to be an ordinary, interchangeable scientist in the drug industry, because the ordinary scientists are usually the first ones to be shown the door. |
Chemistry World August 16, 2011 Patrick Walter |
Chemists Vent Anger at Funding Body in Letters to UK Government UK chemists are in open revolt over administrative interference in their field by the main grant funder. |
Chemistry World July 2008 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: There's plenty of room in the middle Today, chemists and biologists are looking at the space between their own disciplines and asking big questions about where science at the interface might lead them. |
Chemistry World March 2012 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: What makes a good chemist? Excellence in problem solving and a mind for analytical detail are attributes that immediately spring to mind. |
Chemistry World January 2010 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline I've recently marked my 20th year of drug discovery research, which prompted me to think about what has changed since I started work in the industry. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe reminisces about lost laboratory techniques and wonders which will be next to go |
Chemistry World October 2, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
US employment picture brightens for chemists The employment picture for US chemists and chemical engineers brightened from 2012 to 2013, with the jobless rate dropping from 4.2% to 3.5% and median salaries for all chemists increasing by 2.2%. |
Chemistry World July 6, 2012 |
Protein power Tom Muir, professor of chemistry and molecular biology, Princeton University, US, is an expert in protein engineering and its application to studying cellular signalling networks. |
Chemistry World December 22, 2015 Philip Ball |
Why we need more research risks Chemists are a conservative bunch. Collectively, the data speak very clearly: in selecting the problems they tackle, chemists make conservative choices. |
Chemistry World June 17, 2015 Moray Stark |
Safe science: promoting a culture of safety in academic chemical research The drive for this timely book has been a number of serious, and sometimes fatal, accidents in US university chemistry labs. |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Editorial: Balancing up the equation Academic chemistry is a less welcoming environment for women than it is for men. |
Chemistry World January 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Some medicinal chemists can't get enough fluorines in their molecules. The love-hate relationship is explained. |
Chemistry World September 4, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Light in the Lab We organic chemists do terrible things to our molecules. How about dissolving the starting materials up in a flask, shining a light into the mixture and coming back later to find it transformed into your product? That's photochemistry. |
Chemistry World November 27, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Rolling boulders uphill A lot of preclinical projects don't even get off the ground, and many that do still never deliver anything to the development groups. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Peace, love and understanding You'd think that the chemists and biologists working in drug discovery would understand each other pretty well by now. You would be wrong about that. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Intellectual Ferment There are exciting connections between chemistry and biology from both "sides" of the disciplinary divide. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Microsoft Ventures Into Open Access Chemistry Computational chemists have secured funding from computing giant Microsoft to showcase how chemistry can benefit from open access data sharing on the internet. |
Chemistry World February 2012 |
Column: In the pipeline Every lab should have a common working language (presumably that of the country where it's located), and it should be the responsibility of every person in it to be able to at least get along with its basic vocabulary. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2013 John Hayward |
Science of synthesis workbench edition: water in organic synthesis If a chemist is looking to do chemistry in (or on) water at the bench, Water in organic synthesis by Shu Kobayashi will be their guide. |
Chemistry World May 2007 Yfke Hager |
Careers: Solvent Star Here is how Adam Walker co-founded solvent company Bioniqs and is now its CEO He made the transition from postdoc to CEO in just three years. |
Chemistry World May 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Keeping it Green Some chemistry enthusiastically labeled as green may be nothing of the kind, warn researchers who worry that mediocre -- if well-meaning -- science is damaging their subject. |
Chemistry World February 2009 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline How important is it to have the best equipped lab? One group holds that there's little effect at all, that good scientists can do good work with whatever's at hand. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2012 Andrea Sella |
Chattaway's spatula Frederick Chattaway British chemist (1860-1944), was a careful and painstaking explorer of the chemical world. He studied some of the most dangerous compounds known, and was prepared to drop academic security for something more interesting. |
Chemistry World April 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Natural products can be ridiculously complicated. The sheer difficulty of the enterprise is traditionally what made pharmaceutical companies hire people who had worked in total synthesis. But, is total synthesis research still worth the effort? |
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 John Russell |
Pursuing the Paperless Lab Paperless really means automating drudgery. |
Information Today September 24, 2013 |
Labguru Launches Mobile App for Scientists Life science researchers who are on-the-go can now plan, record, and share lab information with colleagues while they are away from their lab benches. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Kendall Powell |
The Next Generation The postdoctoral fellowship for biologists is a high-pressure series of challenges to join the best lab after graduate school, execute and publish stellar science, and then secure a full-time position afterward. |