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<p>PharmDs have various choices -
- You could work in a hospital as a Pharmacists, or at drug stores
- You can do rotations (normally 2 yrs) in Pharma companies.
In pharma R&D, you can pursue many different options, depending on what you like</p>
<p>I am a Clinical Pharmacologist myself. A Pharmacologist conducts exploratory research. First in man studies, investigative work of safety,tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics (what the body does to the drug/absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion), study PK/PD correlations, PD (pharmacodynamics - what the drug does to the body), PET exploratory studies to understand receptor occupancy, receptor t1/2, drug-drug interaction, food effect, and Proof of Concept, Proof of Principle studies, early Phase 2a studies to name a few</p>
<p>Pharmacokineticist - all conc/time results for drug substances from human trials go to these folks. They are experts in number-crunching with WINNONLIN, they give us the PK, PK/PD profiles, correlations, projections of efficacious exposures, safety margins etc. Help pharmacologists in perfecting study designs and writing clinical study reports.</p>
<p>If you pick up any package insert, you will notice that half the information comes from ClinPharmcology area and the other half from Ph3.</p>
<p>Other choices are- Phase 3 research (which establishes safety and efficacy in large numbers of patients -generally thousands). </p>
<p>Phase 4- Long term Follow up studies, new indications, new formulations research studies, Medical safety/safety surveillance : these medical officers work with all clinical research phases. One MD or PharmD is assigned per each project to see to follow up SAEs (serious adverse events) and safety followup.</p>
<p>Regulatory affairs - As a PharmD, you can also work in this area. RA reps liase between Clinical researchers and various health authorities (FDA, EMEA, Japanese HA etc). You will get trained in a therapeutic area of your interest and get trained wrt what each agency recommends/desires in each submission package. Regulations vary greatly within TAs region to region. RA reps help us design a clinical study that will help us get drug approvals.</p>
<p>Medical Education officers/Regional officers - these professionals teach sales force and also interact with investigators in various regions to present our results in conferences.</p>
<p>These are a few examples of what you can do in Pharma R&D.</p>
<p>You can also seek a position that mirrors any of the above at the FDA.</p>