Is this research experience?

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I am currently working for six months as an analytical chemist at a top 15 pharmaceutical company. I am running physiochemical property assays, and doing investigational work on new assays and drug development. Does this count as research experience? I spend almost all of my time in a lab.

 

[ridethecliche]

If you're actually doing stuff on development, I would call that research but make clear that it was for pharma, since it's often different than the academic track and not published many times until clinical trials.

 

[Eddie Chahar]

If you're trying to discover something new, I would consider it research

 

[Catalystik]

I am currently working for six months as an analytical chemist at a top 15 pharmaceutical company. I am running physiochemical property assays, and doing investigational work on new assays and drug development. Does this count as research experience? I spend almost all of my time in a lab.

Are you doing hypothesis-based scholarly work that will result in new generalizable knowledge and be potentially publishable by known peer-reviewed journals? Then, yes, it would be Research for med school application purposes. If not, it could still be listed under Research/Lab (both words are in the pre-selectable category) if you so desire, though Paid Employment would be a better choice.