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Drug Discovery and Safety

Career prospects

Graduates in Drug Discovery and Safety have excellent employment prospects and can generally expect to earn a good salary. This Master’s opens up a whole range of career
opportunities. The most obvious are in medicinal research, the pharmaceuticals industry and hospital laboratories, but there are also plenty of opportunities with research institutes and government inspection agencies. The figures break down as follows:

SBBA Bèta Career Event

Each year the Stichting Bèta Bedrijvencontactdag Amsterdam organizes a Career Event. Large companies are represented at the event. The career event offers lectures, workshops and a speed-date lunch to enable students to meet with future employers.

More information on SBBA can be found at www.sbba.nl.

Career consulting

If you are a KNCV member, you can request a free career consultation

PhD student at the Drug Design and Synthesis research group
'After I received my bachelor’s degree in organic chemistry at the HLO in Rotterdam I started to work at the bioanalytical laboratories of DSM. I liked the work at DSM but I soon started to miss organic synthesis. I’m intrigued by how chemical substances can influence human physiology. When I heard about the Drug Design and Synthesis research group at VU University Amsterdam, I decided to give up my job at DSM and started with the Master’s programme in Pharmacochemistry at VU University Amsterdam.' Read more