Degree discipline required - Any chemistry subject

Although the boundaries are blurred, our chemists fall into the following groups: Medicinal Chemists and Synthetic Chemists, who design new compounds to produce a specific biological effect - the active ingredients in pharmaceutical products - and develop routes to synthesise these new molecules; Physical Chemists, who support the design of 'drug-like' molecules using modern spectroscopic techniques to study physicochemical properties such as chemical stability, pKa, solubility and logP and Computational Chemists who use computational approaches to facilitate drug design.

Opportunities for graduate chemists are available in the above areas, leading to a variety of exciting roles.  As you enhance your skill, further your experience and progress to the level of senior chemist, you'll be working as part of a multi-discipinary team.  By this time, you'll have developed a broad understanding of the entire discovery process and will contribute even more to the invention of new products.