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Professional Opportunities

Pre-doc, post-doc, and industry opportunities for students in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Pathway.

Pre-doc study opportunities

  1. American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) - Advancing and supporting pharmaceutical sciences education at United States schools and colleges of pharmacy.
  2. FDA Pharmacy Student Experiential Program - Learn about the FDA's multidisciplinary processes for addressing public health issues involving drugs, biologics, and medical devices.
  3. Fulbright U.S. Student Program - Increases mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries through studying, teaching, and conducting research, to exchange ideas and to contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. More info: Fulbright Program.
  4. Pathways to Careers in Clinical & Translational Research Program (PACCTR) - Supports clinical research training for medical, dental, nursing and pharmacy pre-doctoral students for short-term (2- or 3-month) and intensive (1- or 2-year) fellowships at UCSF.

Post-doc study opportunities at UCSF

  1. Center for Drug Development Science (CDDS) - An excellent fellowship program for PharmDs and PhDs who are interested in learning about drug development science and pharmacometrics (i.e., quantitative tools in clinical pharmacology)
  2. Center for Health and Community (CHC) - Assesses the challenges of the changing health care delivery environment and identifies policies and interventions that will maximize the beneficial impact of the changing health care delivery system.

Post-doc study opportunities outside of UCSF

  1. Fulbright U.S. Student Program - Increases mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries through studying, teaching, and conducting research, to exchange ideas and to contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. More info: Fulbright Program and Fulbright Scholar Program.
  2. Genentech Postdoctoral Program - Discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize biotherapeutics for significant unmet medical needs.
  3. Postdoc Jobs - Recruiting channel and marketplace bringing together recent PhDs, professors, research institutions, and other employers.
  4. Rutgers Pharmaceutical Industry Fellowship Program

Industry opportunities

Major industry organizations offering viable opportunities for new graduates:

  1. Genentech Postdoctoral Program - Discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize biotherapeutics for significant unmet medical needs.
  2. Merck Internships & Co-ops
    1. Paid positions
    2. Typically 10 to 12 weeks during summer
    3. Most located at West Point, PA; Rahway, NJ; and Whitehouse Station, NJ, though others are offered in Puerto Rico; Kirkland, WA; Charlotte, NC and more.
  3. Pfizer
  4. Rutgers Institute for Pharmaceutical Industry Fellowships Student Internship Database

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