He was a medicinal chemist for Pfizer.
October 4 - Ernest Fourneau (died 1949), medicinal chemist.
Derek Lowe is a chemistry blogger and medicinal chemist working on preclinical drug discovery.
August 5 - Ernest Fourneau (born 1872), French medicinal chemist.
The journal is essential for every medicinal chemist who wishes to be kept informed and up-to-date with the latest and most important advances.
Many medicinal chemists, particularly in academia and research, also earn a Pharm.
John C. Emmett, another medicinal chemist, is also credited as a co-discoverer of cimetidine.
The compounds are not drugs, but they provide useful leads that medicinal chemists may be able to turn into drugs.
"They would be reasonable leads for a medicinal chemist to start doing analogs, trying to increase specificity and potency."
Over the years he worked as on a team of medicinal chemists who developed antibiotics like tetracycline.