Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pharmaceutical Science Developments

Pharmaceutical sciences combine a wide range of scientific disciplines that are essential to the discovery and development of new drugs and therapies. Pharmaceutical sciences can be classified into the following broad categories, with many specialized areas within each category.

Over the years, pharmaceutical scientists have been instrumental in the discovery and development of innovative drugs that have saved the lives of thousands of people and improved the quality of life for many others. Pharmaceutical scientists can work in a variety of jobs. They are employed by pharmaceutical companies, they work as pharmacists, physicians, researchers and professors at universities, as regulatory scientists for agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and as researchers at national laboratories such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH).