<p>My goal is to work at a pharmaceutical company and make medicine someday. Which engineering should i major in? Chemical or Biomedical?</p>
<p>What do you mean my “make medicine”? </p>
<p>I would think a chemE would be involved in the process of mess-production. </p>
<p>I would think the drug itself is made by chemists and MDs.</p>
<p>Maybe Biomed is involved in like delivery systems and whatnot?</p>
<p>I’m talking out of my ass, but thought I’d bump you 'cause I’m dodging homework.</p>
<p>As in inventing new medicine for curing diseases etc.</p>
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<p>Hey, we do other stuff too! (jokes)</p>
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<p>That’s more chemistry to be honest. Most chemical engineers involved in pharm work on mass production. Some work on developing drug delivery systems (although much of this is research-based). I haven’t heard of any chemical engineers synthesizing new drugs, but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Oh. Really? I thought chemical engineers make “things”. From something like converting raw materials to something useful to medicine, etc? Or am i confused? Then what about biomedical engineers?</p>
<p>Oops. </p>
<p>Actually, I think designing drugs and mess-production are BOTH more of a chemistry thing:</p>
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<p>I am not qualified to be talking about this, but I think ChemE is is more about the technical side of how you are going to make all the medicine…like, “how do we harness thus-an-such reaction, compensate for thus-an-such effect, and pump out 10zillion gallons of this stuff…”</p>
<p>The benchtop, “how will this react with the human body/disease x” I think is more of a collaboration of doctors and chemists.</p>
<p>But I am not even taking an engineering class yet, so ignore me.</p>
<p>Hey is it better to have a degree in computer science or computer engineering?</p>
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<p>Does that mean I should major in Chemistry and get a Ph.D in Chemistry?</p>
<p>“Does that mean I should major in Chemistry and get a Ph.D in Chemistry?”</p>
<p>It really, really depends. If your dream is to be the brains behind what part of a drug is acting on something, it seems like engineering isn’t the right place. But chemistry and pharma are a massive world, and I think there are a lot of ways to be involved. </p>
<p>Molecular biology is probably involved too. You might want to google it or ask at a chemistry forum.</p>
<p>I did research in Medicinal Chemistry, That’s a drug discovery field. It sounds like something you’d be interested in. Take Biochem or something similar in high school and than major in Medicinal Chemistry in grad school. Chemical Engineering is an Engineering degree, you make machines that deal with chemicals. If you’re interested in making medicine that’s already been discovered consider Pharmaceutical Engineering, that’s a grad school program though. Undergrad Chem e for it.</p>