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Originally Posted by QuentinM
As above. Pharmacology is the main degree that researches the study of new drugs. Medicinal chemistry is also pretty relevant as this route might actually involve the design of the molecules used for drugs. You will do quite a bit of Med Chem during a Pharmacology degree as well tbh.
Based on this, Chemistry is a must, and Biology will be a desireable. Maths might be useful, but i can't recommend any others.
Also worth noting, From the lectures i've had from people during my pharma modules, drug discovery is a ridiculously difficult process. It sounds like its a lot of High throughput screening assays on thousands of molecules at a time, only to find just 1 of them, or none, have any effect. I've been to a lecture by a guy nearing the end of his career and he's only "discovered" one drug and he's j...
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