Career Opportunities with

Parke? Davis & Company

ff^arke, Davis & Company, "pio­neer in better medicines since 1866," is one of the largest of the ethical pharmaceutical companies. I t is a company known throughout the world for medical specialties such as biologicals, hormones, antibiotics and other chemotherapeutic agents, antihistamines, antimalarials, vita­mins, and behavioral drugs. The company has expanded steadily for more than three quarters of a cen­tury and in 1957 a new record for sales and net profits was estab­lished.

Research and Development

In planning for tomorrow's busi­ness, research is of vital importance. Carrying on the fascinating quest for new scientific knowledge is a staff of over 500 chemists, pharma­cologists, microbiologists, pharma­cists, technicians, and assisting per­sonnel. Present plans call for ex­pansion of this staff t o well over 700 during the next few years.

Chemists, working in close co­operation with biologists and phar­macists, find very satisfying and extremely interesting careers in laboratory investigations leading to new drugs. Despite the remarkable progress made in recent years in chemotherapy, endocrinology, phar­macodynamics, and related biolog­ical fields, much remains to be done. Cancer, heart disease, mental ill­ness, and some of the resistant in­fectious diseases are among those disorders yet to be conquered and stand as a challenge t o tomorrow's research scientist.

Organic chemists run the full gamut of their science in the syn­thesis of compounds of varied struc­ture and in the study of organic synthetic processes. New com­pounds made by the chemists are evaluated by expert pharmacolo­gists and microbiologists for biolog­ical activity. Biochemists pay par­ticular attention to antibiotics, hor­mones, and other natural products, and also carry on studies in enzy-mology, protein chemistry, and nu­trition. Supporting both of these groups are analytical and physical

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Detroit 32, Mich.

chemists who supply the microana-lytical and instrumental data needed to complete the research picture.

While teamwork is important t o the success of complex medical re­search, the creative thinking and original contributions of the indi­vidual are of a higher order of value. Both men and women chem­ists find in drug research a n d de­velopment a maximum opportunity to utilize their chemical training, and feel that they are a part of a n exciting and stimulating program.

Production and Engineering

Chemical engineers play s, key role in handling the relatively com­plex chemical processes common­place to the drug industry. Proc­ess development, as well as equip­ment design, selection, layout, and installation are some of the broad areas which concern the engineer.

Supervision of manufacturing op­erations may be the responsibility of chemists, chemical engineers, o r pharmacists, depending upon the nature of the operation. Advance­ment to management positions is a clear-cut possibility for men with ambition and outstanding ability.

Training for the Future

Orientation in the highly special­ized type of work involved in the pharmaceutical industry requires on-the-job training on an indi vidua 1 basis. All new employees a r e given

appropriate training, and are sub­sequently included in a broad man­agement and personnel develop­ment program.

The technical man or woman is encouraged to enroll in evening graduate work at local universities, the company paying 50% or more of tuition and other expenses.

Our Location

All of the research and most of the production activities of the company are carried on currently by over 4000 employees in the main plant in Detroit. Some chemical manufacturing is done in Holland, Mich., and a considerable part of the biological manufacturing is in Rochester, Mich.

By late 1959 the new Ann Arbor research center pictured here will be completed and ready for occu­pancy. Chemical and pharmaco­logical research will be among those departments which will expand in this desirable new location, adja­cent to the north campus of the University of Michigan.

Are You Interested?

Information about the company given on this page is necessarily brief and sketchy. If you would like to know more about opportuni­ties for technically trained men and women in our company, write to the Technical Personnel Direc­tor, Parke, Davis & Company, De­troit 32, Mich.

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Architectural model of new Parke, Davis Medical Research Center now under construction at Ann Arbor, Mich.