I occasionally take medication.<\/p>\n
Last year I had a sinus infection and needed an antibiotic; sometimes I push too hard and need Tylenol to help with my aches and pains; this week I have a cold, so I am alternating between DayQuil and Nyquil.<\/p>\n
I don’t often spend time thinking about anything other than “will this medicine help me feel better?” But there is an entire industry devoted to developing and distributing medicine to the public. Pharmacologists play an important role in that process.<\/p>\n
The job of a pharmacologist<\/strong> is to study drugs and other substances, and their interaction with living tissue. Working in research laboratories, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government-run health-related agencies like the FDA or CDC, pharmacologists:<\/p>\n Areas of specialty include:<\/p>\n For an in-depth overview of pharmacology careers,<\/em> check out <\/em>Career Cruising<\/a><\/em> on <\/em>Cascade<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Careers in pharmacology<\/strong> exist at all levels of education. If you want to do independent research or teach, you’ll need a Ph.D. With a master’s degree, you can find work as a technologist or research associate. An undergraduate degree will qualify you to assist with lab experiments, or work as a pharmaceutical sales representative.<\/p>\n To get an idea of what a pharmaceutical sales career entails, consider contacting Puget Sound alumni in the ASK Network<\/a> (on Cascade<\/a>) who work for GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, ProteoTech (in Kirkland), and Abbott Laboratories (in Fife). <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a9 2012 Career and Employment Services, University of Puget Sound Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I occasionally take medication. Last year I had a sinus infection and needed an antibiotic; sometimes I push too hard and need Tylenol to help with my aches and pains; this week I have a cold, so I am alternating between DayQuil and Nyquil. I don’t often spend time thinking about anything other than “will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":2405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27,51],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-profiles","tag-health-sciences","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nPhoto: Sherman Geronimo-Tan<\/p>\n