Career Options in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Industry: An Insider’s Guide

ISBN-13: 9783031149108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 330 str.

Josse R. Thomas; Luciano Saso; Chris Van Schravendijk

Opis

Written by dedicated and active professionals from different areas of the pharmaceutical, biomedical, and medtech sectors, this book provides information on job and career opportunities in various life sciences industries. It also contains useful tips to launch your own startup. The pharmaceutical, biomedical and medical technology sectors offer a wide range of employment opportunities to talented and motivated young graduates. However, many of these employment prospects are not well known to early career scientists, who concentrate primarily on the scientific and academic content of their fields of interest.The book is divided into five parts: Part 1 provides an academic perspective that focuses on the specific preparation required in the final years of study to embark on a successful career in the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries. In Part 2, industry experts discuss employment possibilities all along the drug or product life cycle, from discovery research and development to commercialisation. Part 3 follows, highlighting opportunities in support functions such as regulatory affairs or quality assurance. Part 4 focuses on additional opportunities in the wider biomedical sector, while Part 5 contains practical tips and training opportunities for entering the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries. In the epilogue, the authors reflect on this fascinating field and its career prospects.The book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on career opportunities in the pharmaceutical and biomedical industry to a wide range of students and young life scientists.

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Title: Career Options in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Industry: An Insider’s Guide

 

Preface (Introduction)

 

Part 1: Setting the scene

 

Chapter 1:

Life after Academia: Launching your Pharma/Biotech Career

Chris van Schravendijk

 

Chapter 2:

Competences for Pharmacists

Jeffrey Atkinson & Chris van Schravendijk

 

Chapter 3:

Job and Career Opportunities in the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Overview

Josse R. Thomas

 

Part 2: Opportunities along the drug/product life cycle

 

Chapter 4:

Career Opportunities in Toxicology

Mark Martens & Miranda Cornet

 

Chapter 5:

Job Possibilities in Clinical Research

Benedikt Van Nieuwenhove

 

Chapter 6:

How to Get and Develop a Career in a Market Access Role in the Medical Devices Industry

Vito Palatino

 

Chapter 7:

Job Opportunities in Pharmaceutical Marketing

Vicky van den Nieuwenhuyzen

 

Chapter 8:

Working in Medical Affairs and Clinical Operations: Life-Changing Careers

Drago Vuino et al.

 

Chapter 9:

The Role of Medical Science Liaison

Roberta Manfroni

 

Chapter 10:

Career Development for Physicians in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Anke Van den Broeck & Ann Dhoore

 

Part 3: Opportunities in Supportive Functions

 

Chapter 11:

Job and Career Opportunities in Regulatory Affairs/Science

Ann Emmerechts and Josse R. Thomas

 

Chapter 12:

Job Opportunities in Clinical Research Quality Assurance

Iris Gorter de Vries

 

Chapter 13:

Job Opportunities in Quality Assurance Related to Manufacturing of Medicinal Products

Maaike Gons

 

Part 4: Other Opportunities in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sector

 

Chapter 14:

Careers Perspective in a Science and Technology Park

Laura Aldrovandi & Simona Sbardelatti

 

Chapter 15:

To be or not to be: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Creation as a Way to Innovate in Life

Sciences

Brian Cahill et al.

 

Chapter 16:

How to Become a Successful Hospital and Community Pharmacist

Lilian M. Azzopardi

 

Part 5: Practical tips and tricks

 

Chapter 17:

A Successful Career in the Life Sciences Industry: How to Write your Strongest Resumé and

Ace that Interview

Sofie Paeps & Charlotte Peters

 

Chapter 18:

Skill Building for Career Advancement: Public Speaking and Networking

Hynda K. Kleinman

 

Chapter 19:

Training Opportunities for a Career in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Industry/Sector

Josse R. Thomas

 

Epilogue

O autorze

Josse R. Thomas graduated as a Pharmacist and holds a postgraduate and a PhD degree in Medical Sciences (experimental and clinical pharmacology) from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is certified as a Clinical Pharmacologist and has more than 30 years of experience in clinical drug development in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, he held or holds various academic and consulting positions, including former Visiting Professor at KU Leuven (clinical drug development), former member of the Medical Research Ethics Committee of UZ/KU Leuven, member of the Clinical Trials Board of the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE), National Expert participating in the European Commission DG SANTE Union Controls within the framework of the Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR), and Senior Consultant at PharmaCS. He is also co-author of the book ‘Global New Drug Development: An Introduction’, published by Wiley-Blackwell, and a reference in its field.

Prof. Luciano Saso (Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) is author of more than 350 scientific articles published in peer reviewed international journals (H-index Google Scholar 58, Scopus 48). He coordinated several research projects and has been referee for many national and international funding agencies and international scientific journals in the last 30 years.  Prof. Saso has extensive experience in international relations and he has been Deputy -Rector at Sapienza University of Rome in the last 7 years. In the last 20 years, he participated in several projects and has been speaker and chair at many international conferences organised by the UNICA network of the universities from the Capitals of Europe (http://www.unica-network.eu/) and other university associations. Prof. Saso is currently President of UNICA (2015-2023) and Member of the Steering Committee of CIVIS (https://civis.eu/en)  

 

Prof. Em. Chris van Schravendijk is Emeritus professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. His research domain is focused on cellular biology, prediction and prevention of type-1 diabetes. As faculty professor he was responsible for the introductory course on Scientific Thought and Evidence Based Medicine in the first Medical Bachelor year and for the Bachelor course on Formulation and Development of a Scientific Hypothesis in the third Bachelor year of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Between 2008 and 2016, he was the Director of the Doctoral School of Life Sciences and Medicine, with more than 200 PhD students. He has a long standing interest in international benchmarking and harmonization in the area of Higher Education (MEDINE, MEDINE-2, ORPHEUS, UNICA) with focus on the place of the research component in the undergraduate medical curriculum as well as on career perspectives of academic graduates. As emeritus he is particularly interested in PhD workshops promoting better awareness of research integrity as well as the promotion of job opportunities in the pharma-biomed-medtech sector.