(The impact of the cuts to EPSRC is also highlighted by a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron in which
more than 100 senior
chemists, including six Nobel laureates, criticize the council's plans to reduce research funding for
synthetic organic chemistry.)
However, the precise nature of that role is undergoing a visible change, not only because of the new
synthetic methods and technologies now available to the
synthetic and medicinal
chemist, but also in several key areas, particularly in drug metabolism and chemical toxicology, as
chemists deal with the ever
more rapid turnaround of testing data that influences their day - to - day decisions.