Pharmacologist

REF 1753850

09.03.2025 | Dubai | full time

Description: Pharmacologist job description
The pharmacologist is first and foremost a doctor, a chemist or a biologist specialized in medicine. The pharmacologist conducts experiments and analyses to better understand the effects of pharmaceutical substances and drugs on the human or animal organism. His/her role also consists of improving the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of physiological and psychological diseases.
The pharmacologist conducts basic research in laboratories in hospitals, universities, research institutions, or in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.

Principal duties of the pharmacologist
Test the efficiency and safety of a drug
Run tests to study the carcinogenic, mutagenic (mutation) and teratogenic (deformity) effects of certain drugs and chemical substances
Establish the standard dosage of a medicine
Participate in the research of new medicines and new production techniques
Provide information on drugs
Education to be a pharmacologist
The pharmacologist has initial training in medicine, pharmacy, molecular biology or biochemistry before specializing in pharmacology.
Pharmacologists who have a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree may work as technologists or research associates. With a PhD, he/she can work as an independent researcher for a university or company.

Requirements: A medical or doctoral degree.
A state license and certification to administer drugs to humans.