The country seeks discoverers of new treatment possibilities
8 May 2019 - Not just in the lane anymore. Today, doctors also serve in the pharmaceutical sector. This is the message that emerged from the meeting on the theme "Drugs from basic research to therapy: synergies between academia and business on new employment prospects in the pharmaceutical sector", with Massimo Scaccabarozzi, president of Farmindustria, Alessandro Mugello, president of the Italian Society of Pharmacology e Giorgio Minotti, dean of the departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.
“If it is true that today 65% of elementary school children are starting to study for a profession that does not yet exist, it is also true that many of our students do not know that they can take professional paths that already exist and are waiting to be taken. The doctor is therefore no longer just the one in a white coat, but can become a discoverer of treatment possibilities. And so a series of professional crossroads open up, which our students often don't know about”, stated Dean Minotti.
A sector, the pharmaceutical one, which has 65.400 direct employees and as many in related industries, many of whom are under 35 and with a strong female presence. Since 2018, the Italian pharmaceutical industry has reached the top of the European rankings for production and, after the crises of recent years, continues to experience a season of growth made up of dynamism and continuous innovation.
"We are a sector that produces life, value, medicines and to carry on all these activities we need medical skills", said Massimo Scaccabarozzi, president of Farmindustria. Above all, scientific and research managements are the figures most in demand by the drug industries. "We have difficulty finding doctors - he continues - because medicine graduates are often frightened by the lack of clinical activity, not knowing that it can also be practiced in our companies with clinical research projects".
Not just doctors though. "In drug research there is room for people who have knowledge in the field of biology and chemistry, there are many spaces - she underlined, Alessandro Mugelli, president of the Italian Society of Pharmacology. These range from the identification of new active ingredients to pharmacogenomics which is revolutionizing the world of therapy”.
A world, that of the drug industry, which finds in the research laboratories of the Campus Bio-Medico University and in its University Hospital an environment that lives in close contact with the dynamics of development and innovation of new treatments and new devices for diagnosis and therapies. A reality that is in daily contact with issues such as the level of expenditure for medicines, the appropriateness of therapies, problems connected with hospitalization and the treatment of chronic diseases.
