A day in the life of a research chemist: Daniel Ford

By Daniel Ford2007-11-01T00:00:00

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Daniel Ford has spent the past four years working for UCB and his current position is research chemist. He talks to James Berressem about his typical day

UCB is a biopharmaceutical organisation with R&D and manufacturing sites around the globe. The company develops treatments for severe diseases such as cancer, epilepsy, rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson's disease. Daniel is one of 20 chemists working on an R&D project to make new small molecule drugs that inhibit enzymes (called kinases) which cancer cells need to grow.

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