I have a lot of friends who did two postdocs. That was not uncommon at all. I have a job with pharma. This is a troubling development, Hall says, given the traditional role of postdoctoral programs in training PhD-level chemists in medicinal chemistry. Most PhD programs give a student a solid grounding in areas such as organic synthesis, mechanistic organic chemistry, and natural product chemistry, Hall says.
How to be project-managed and how to look at and understand biological data that informs decisions that are made about the direction a chemistry program is going in. Some people get this at the PhD level, but not many. Joel P.
Schneider, the chief of chemical biology at the National Cancer Institute NCI , agrees that a postdoc fellowship provides a path from the classical chemistry learned during a PhD program to the practical realm of medicinal chemistry as conducted in industrial drug discovery. While the labs at the NCI have not taken much of a hit, Schneider says, some fellows have moved into industry before their postdoc is over. He speaks of one former fellow who left for a job with a biotechnology company.
She was subsequently hired by a firm involved with crop science, and then by a top 10 pharmaceutical company. Bill Wuest, a chemistry professor at Emory University, says the hot job market in pharmaceutical chemistry contrasts with a dearth of jobs in academia. And even some of those who have jobs in academia are making a move. The potential for a higher salary without having to juggle teaching remotely, keeping grants afloat, and caring for family during a pandemic has a lot of people looking at where their research aligns with industry, Wuest says.
Wuest says his thinking about postdocs has evolved in recent years. Traditionally, fellowships gave young chemists an experience in a new lab, preparing them for jobs, largely in academia, he says. It has become less clear what a postdoc offers a chemist who wants to pursue a job in industry. Biotech companies are in the midst of a hiring surge, fueled by sizable rounds of venture capital financing, new contracts with Big Pharma partners, and initial public stock offerings. But much of their chemistry is outsourced, meaning that in-house chemists are involved at the design level and generally manage contract researchers who do the actual synthesis.
Some companies are looking for chemists with 3—5 years of industry experience. Rachel Meyers, chief scientific officer at Faze Medicines , a Cambridge, Massachusetts—based start-up that is targeting biomolecular condensates with small molecules, questions the meaning of experience in areas of cutting-edge science.
While the four full-time chemists at Faze had all worked in industry before joining the company, it is not requiring industry experience of new hires, Meyers says. Jnana Therapeutics , a 4-year-old Boston biotech company with a chemoproteomics platform for drug discovery, recently completed a round of financing and is looking to hire synthetic medicinal chemists this year and next. Barrish says the steady influx of venture capital into biotech is fueling job creation.
For others, a renaissance favors the highly skilled and most experienced. Joshua Horan, vice president of discovery chemistry at Nuvalent , a structure-based drug discovery specialist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says the company, which outsources all its wet chemistry, has one position open, which requires 5 years of prior industry research.
He speculates that more surprises may be in store if the job market remains tight. As of today, that is not the model, but it would not be a huge barrier if we had to do that. Contract development and manufacturing organizations CDMOs are also hiring at a record level. Senanayake sees the CDMO sector as a good training ground for emerging chemists. Luiza Bondila, who received her PhD in supramolecular chemistry in from the University of Oxford, says she was unsure what she wanted to do next but was leaning toward a career in academia.
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