Industrial pharmacist vs postdoctoral scholar

Differences between industrial pharmacist and postdoctoral scholar duties and responsibilities

Industrial pharmacist example responsibilities.

• Manage sample inventory via in-house laboratory information management system (LIMS) and implement additional systems for sample and chemical organization.
• Perform laboratory qualification of reference standards, including control substances according to GMP requirements.
• Perform research under ISO9001 certification, and produce marketing literature within FDA regulatory guidelines.
• Design experiments and statistically analyze data to comply with FDA requirements for stability, specificity, and accuracy.
• Key activities include process chemistry development, synthesis of intermediates, compound purification and structure identification, and comprehensive scientific documentation.
• Perform statistical analyses of on/off-line manufacturing data to investigate failures of release parameters (harvest OD).

Postdoctoral scholar example responsibilities.

• Lead community-based health projects on and off campus as an Oslerian student scholar.
• Lead the in-vitro biophysical and biochemical characterization of homologous recombination and investigate structure-function effects of mutant enzymes.
• Utilize basic organic and inorganic chemistry techniques including polymer synthesis and NMR spectroscopy.
• Train graduate students on molecular biology techniques- DNA and RNA extraction and qPCR.
• Contribute to successful NIH grant proposals.
• Develop HPLC analysis method for skin folate.
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