Pharmacologist

Responsibilities:

• Studying the effects of drugs, chemicals, and other substances on humans, animals, and plants.
• Studying the effects of new or modified medicines and recording the reactions that take place.
• Identifying potentially harmful and beneficial side effects, recommending proper dosages, and describing the circumstances in which the drug should be administered.
• Identifying hazardous substances in the environment by analyzing chemicals used in workplaces, pesticides, food preservatives, and households.
• Performing experiments using cultured cells, laboratory animals, plants, human tissue, precision electronic instruments, and computers.
• Analyzing complex scientific data.
• Writing detailed reports and presenting findings to senior colleagues and scientific peers.