Developmental biologists with doctoral degrees who work in academia, for example, earned a median salary of just $ 45,000, whereas
Ph.D. pharmacologists earned $ 99,000.
The FIRST program at the University of Frankfurt aims to address a lack of
Ph.D. graduates who really understand the drug - development process, says Dieter Steinhilber, the coordinator of FIRST and a
pharmacologist at the university's Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.