A few articles from this week's issue of Chemical and Engineering News:
- Cover: Lisa Jarvis on the gender diversity problem in pharma and biotech.
- "Wendy Young, senior vice president of small-molecule discovery at Genentech, points out that her field, medicinal chemistry, seems stubbornly stuck at 20%. That’s the percentage of women who are in the medicinal chemistry division of the American Chemical Society, who publish in medicinal chemistry journals, and who are featured at conferences."
- Green fuels get bacterial infections? (article by Mitch Jacoby)
- An update on Chematica's computer-planned synthetic routes (article by Sam Lemonick)
- Lasers to make distressed jeans for Levi's (article by Melody Bomgardner)
- Cheryl Hogue, with more on Chemours' air emissions of perfluorocarbons.
How much did MilliporeSigma pay for Grzybowski Scientific Inventions?
ReplyDeleteBartosz must be laughing all the way to the Soju Store.
You really want to know what causes the low percentage of women in medchem. Is it because the field is hostile to women, or is it because women choose to avoid a field known for poor working conditions?
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DeleteIf we're trying to get more women into medchem, we should also try to get more women into coal mines and typewriter factories.
ReplyDeleteGood article about the development of the triple quadrupole mass specpectrometer by Enke and Yost 40 years ago.
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