Outsourcing U.S. Chemists

Chemistss in the USA are perishing. Note the big layoffs by Big Pharma in the US. This has been going on now for some time. There are no job ads for industrial chemists in the U.S. for the last 5 or more years, just ads for faculty to train Chinese students to become Chemists in China, all paid with graduate stipends by the U.S. government.

Rise of foreign drug discovery services providers coincides with restructuring of R&D at major pharmaceutical firms

Jean-François Tremblay

Chemical & Engineering News

Piramal Healthcare

COMPETENT Foreign drug discovery services firms handle increasingly complex projects for big drug companies based in the U.S.

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Sundia MediTech (both)

EQUIPPED Labs of contract research organizations in the East look as modern as their counterparts in the West.

ChemDiv

INTEGRATED More and more contract research firms in Eastern Europe, China, and India offer services ranging from discovery biology to clinical trials.