As well as analytical and computational chemists, the company, with a work force of over 10,000, looks
for synthetic organic chemists, medicinal chemists, and combinatorial chemists to join their research teams.
The substances introduced by
Rice synthetic organic chemist K.C. Nicolaou are similar in their cancer - fighting mechanism to paclitaxel, the drug for which he is best - known, but have superior properties.
«It's an encouraging result,» says Lawrence Scott,
a synthetic organic chemist at Boston College in Massachusetts.
Genentech employs many analytical chemists,
synthetic organic chemists, and scale - up chemists.
«Marty is a visionary,» says Larry Overman,
a synthetic organic chemist at the University of California, Irvine.
In college in Mississippi, he enjoyed biochemistry and did some lab work as
a synthetic organic chemist, where he was introduced to X-ray crystallography.