From biochemist to pharmacologist
40 of the 55 essential skills of a pharmacologist are already essential for a biochemist — about 73% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 40
- skills carry over
- 15
- would be new
- 73%
- of the target job covered
- 55
- essential skills of a pharmacologist
What a pharmacologist does
Pharmacologists study the manner in which drugs and medicaments interact with organisms, living systems, and their parts (i.e. cells, tissues, or organs). Their research aims at identifying substances that can be ingested by humans and that exert adequate biochemical functions for curing illnesses.
What carries over
40 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- biological chemistry
- communicable diseases
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- laboratory techniques
- life sciences
- maintain laboratory equipment
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform laboratory tests
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- pharmacology
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- research design
- scientific literature
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- write scientific publications
What would be new
15 skillsEssential for a pharmacologist and not for a biochemist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- analyse medication's impact on brain
- cancer risks
- medicines
- microbiology-bacteriology
- mix chemicals
- perform diagnostic testing for allergies
- pharmaceutical drug development
- pharmaceutical legislation
- pharmaceutical technology
- pharmacovigilance legislation
- record test data
- run laboratory simulations
- toxicology
- wear appropriate protective gear
- work safely with chemicals
Other moves from biochemist
2 roles- toxicologist40 skills in common
- immunologist39 skills in common
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How far are you from being a pharmacologist?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.