<p>I'm considering Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, or Applied Chemistry (with a focus on Medicinal Chemistry), or pure Biology.</p>
<p>Or will they all get me to the same place? Should I even go to medical school if I just want to do medical research?</p>
<p>If you go to medical school, they will probably all get you to the same place.</p>
<p>If you do not go to medical school, chemical and biomolecular engineering has a much greater chance of leading to good jobs and career than chemistry or biology.</p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t MD PhD’s the ones that do medical research?</p>
<p>Well it all depends on what the op means by “medical research.”
That’s incredibly broad and vague.</p>
<p>I personally would consider stem cell research to be medical, and that tends to fall under biomedical engineers who have a mechanical edge.</p>
<p>On the other hand, several types of cancer research tends to fall more to biologists who have a ph.d. in something public health related, rather than engineering.</p>