Career Options in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Industry

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 CareerChris 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 LiaisonRoberta 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:

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