Career Prospects in Pharmacy after Doctorate
Professor and readers: A full fledged doctor is usually given higher positions in the colleges and universities ,this is also very respectful job and involves giving lectures to students and helping to shape their career.
Scientists: This post is present both in Govt research institutes and private companies for carrying out research and development, discovering new procedures, species drugs etc for the benefit of mankind, also to get patents for their work which gives them a right to get paid for their discovered products, many companies are also indulged in this field and offers best packages to their R&D personell eg Ranbaxy, biocon etc.
Various field include
Drug Discovery - These scientists often have a backgrounds of pharmaceutical chemistry or medicinal chemistry. They have to go for development of new chemical entity or molecule.
Receptor Biology- it includes post of pharmacologist with experience in receptors and their ligands, and Cell Biologists with experience in G protein-coupled receptors.
Cell Biology - New fields of research in the cell therapy and tissue engineering sectors combine with the continuing need for mammalian cells as a production system for proteins. Cells are the engines and brains of many processes, and the biologist who understands these new frontiers is on the cutting edge of the job market.
Bioinformatics complete knowledge of CADD are most welcomed. This include work in Structural biology, genome annotations like that of human genome project ,computational chemistry, mathematics used in modeling complex structures or processes, biocomputational specialists may learn to make simpler molecules that produce the same end results.
Quality control: They have to develop, apply, revise, and maintain quality standards for processing materials into partially finished or finished products. Helps in designing and implementing methods and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and prepares documentation for inspection testing procedures.
Professor: Ph.D in pharmacy are most welcomed in this field. They are paid up above 25000 in good institutions. They can work as professor, later on selected as HOD after getting some experience. It is very trustworthy position where you have to build up skills in new comers in pharmacy.