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Nick
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What are current things being done to advance the world in this field What is the day to day like, and who do you work with? #Spring2025?
What are current things being done to advance the world in this field? What is the day to day like, and who do you work with? #Spring2025
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Michelle M.
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Hi, Nick !
Since your tags indicated that you are interested in Biochemistry, I would be happy to help you out with the information that will give you an idea about the academic path. It's best first to understand what you'd be learning in college as a Biochemistry Major. It is through your undergraduate experience that you learn about the career.
Typically, as a Biochemistry Major, you will be taking courses in general chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, and physics with Chemistry and Biology being a heavy base. For this path, you would be studying cell structure and function, genetics, and molecular biology. It helps to know what you'd study and that can indicate the work you'd do later on. Lab work connected to your courses is required and that's where you'd start to gain experience. I am not sure what you mean by "who do you work with", however you'd be working with biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, research, medicine, or take further graduate study. Every day is different and each project you work on takes a different time to complete, so there is no typical day for Biochemists. No one knows how their career will be until they start.
Not so much "who" you work with, rather where you work is the question. Biochemists are hired at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, government agencies, and private firms. Major pharmaceutical and biotech companies that hire biochemists include Genentech, Novartis, Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Eli Lilly and Company, and Johnson & Johnson.
The work that is currently being done has to do with infectious disease and cancer. There are also environmental and industrial subjects that biochemists are currently researching. As well, there is work being done in systems biology, redox biochemistry, and biochemical informatics. You can look the information up online or take books out from the Library to learn more about this work.
To learn more about the latest Biochemistry work, there are professional Journals that you can start reading. Some of these are: the Annual Review of Biochemistry, ACS Chemical Biology, Cell, Chemical Reviews, Genes and Development, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Methods, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biochemical Journal, Biochemical Society Transactions, Essays in Biochemistry, The Open Biochemistry Journal and more. Search online to see if they have websites or find the Journals at a library.
Biochemists work with scientists, but they collaborate with a wide range of professionals. Some of these are chemists, biologists, medical doctors, pharmacologists, data scientists, and engineers, chemical engineers, molecular biologists, microbiologists, agronomists, geologists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, research assistants, bioinformaticians, regulatory affairs specialists, quality control analysts, technical writers, and management personnel.
I hope this helps out to begin your discovery of the work and academic path for this career. Best wishes in all you do !
Since your tags indicated that you are interested in Biochemistry, I would be happy to help you out with the information that will give you an idea about the academic path. It's best first to understand what you'd be learning in college as a Biochemistry Major. It is through your undergraduate experience that you learn about the career.
Typically, as a Biochemistry Major, you will be taking courses in general chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, and physics with Chemistry and Biology being a heavy base. For this path, you would be studying cell structure and function, genetics, and molecular biology. It helps to know what you'd study and that can indicate the work you'd do later on. Lab work connected to your courses is required and that's where you'd start to gain experience. I am not sure what you mean by "who do you work with", however you'd be working with biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, research, medicine, or take further graduate study. Every day is different and each project you work on takes a different time to complete, so there is no typical day for Biochemists. No one knows how their career will be until they start.
Not so much "who" you work with, rather where you work is the question. Biochemists are hired at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, government agencies, and private firms. Major pharmaceutical and biotech companies that hire biochemists include Genentech, Novartis, Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Eli Lilly and Company, and Johnson & Johnson.
The work that is currently being done has to do with infectious disease and cancer. There are also environmental and industrial subjects that biochemists are currently researching. As well, there is work being done in systems biology, redox biochemistry, and biochemical informatics. You can look the information up online or take books out from the Library to learn more about this work.
To learn more about the latest Biochemistry work, there are professional Journals that you can start reading. Some of these are: the Annual Review of Biochemistry, ACS Chemical Biology, Cell, Chemical Reviews, Genes and Development, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Methods, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biochemical Journal, Biochemical Society Transactions, Essays in Biochemistry, The Open Biochemistry Journal and more. Search online to see if they have websites or find the Journals at a library.
Biochemists work with scientists, but they collaborate with a wide range of professionals. Some of these are chemists, biologists, medical doctors, pharmacologists, data scientists, and engineers, chemical engineers, molecular biologists, microbiologists, agronomists, geologists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, research assistants, bioinformaticians, regulatory affairs specialists, quality control analysts, technical writers, and management personnel.
I hope this helps out to begin your discovery of the work and academic path for this career. Best wishes in all you do !
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