What are the options for MD-PhD's in the pharmaceutical industry?

[moralis]

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I sometimes see it brought up that some MD/PhD's work in pharma. What exact roles would they serve there?

 

[tortuga87]

Physician-Scientist Careers in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries

Abstract. Many careers are open to physician-scientists in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. However, research is structured very differently i

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[Lucca]

ive seen people go into roles from anything as research scientist, clinical trial leadership, project manager, division head, to CEO (or spinning out their own pharmaceutical company, a cool example, although there are many, is VerveTX which does preclinical and clinical testing of monogenic gene editing for treatments).