SURE combines the chemist's process knowledge and the engineers knowledge of large-equipment functionality to come to a balanced, shared, long-term view of the risks to successful scale up.
Let's consider young chemists or chemical engineers at the beginning of their careers, with starting annual gross salaries of about SG$40,000, working as plant chemists or process engineers.
A new approach for optimal experimental design has been developed to support the work of chemists and process engineers in determining reaction kinetics of complex reaction networks.
They would ship in morphine base, hire French chemists to process it for a couple of weeks at temporary labs in the suburbs, and then smuggle it back onboard ships bound for America.
But, says Michael Varney, head of the small molecule drug discovery group at Genentech, those hiring trends are about to change: "For us, over the next 3 years, we'll hire more medicinal chemists and more process and scale-up chemists than we will analytical chemists".
Originally developed (1902) by a French chemist, Auguste Verneuil, the process produces a boule (a mass of alumina with the same physical and chemical characteristics as corundum) from finely ground alumina (Al2O3) by means of an inverted oxyhydrogen torch that opens into a ceramic muffle.
Originally telescope mirrors were made from polished "speculum metal," an alloy of copper and tin, but in 1856 Justus von Liebig, a German chemist, invented a process for forming a mirror-like layer of silver on polished glass, which was applied to telescope mirrors by the German astronomer C.A. von Steinheil.
Divorced, remarried; 3 children Grandchildren of Campbell Soup founder John T. Dorrance, chemist who invented process for making condensed canned soup, bought uncle's Campbell Soup company in 1914.
Biocatalysis is continuing to gain momentum and is now becoming a key component in the toolbox of the process chemist, with a place alongside chemocatalysis and chromatographic separations.
The involvement of EFPIA partners in their development has ensured that the training materials and methods developed have practical applicability within the medicinal and process chemist community.
