I sat in the dim lit laboratory waiting for the computer monitor to display the chromatogram of the sample that I had injected into the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). I knew the peak chromatogram should come at the thirteenth minute, and if it did, the ophthalmic formulation which had become an axial part of my life over the past many months will have an added chance to become a drug product of the future. Or of course, I might just get a flat line or a confusing mix of multiple peaks, and it will just be one of many setback's that I have had to overcome since taking on the project, the project on developing an ophthalmic drug delivery system for a phytochemical.
My thoughts swung back and forth, with HPLC as my only company in the otherwise empty lab. I reflected on my first few days in the pharmaceutical industry, when I was a fresh graduate student, with very limited knowledge of the drug discovery processes. I had to work harder than my peers who had a pharmacy degree, to understand the concepts of drug action, drug delivery and the many other principles of pharmaceutics. I went over the time when I stayed back late to refer journals and books for the projects I was working on. I could recollect my manager selecting me to work …show more content…
I observed the effective transport of the drug across cell lines, the efficacy in rat litters in stalling cataract development, its lingering bioavailability in rats. All these studies which proved the safety and efficacy of the ophthalmic product that I had helped develop, fascinated me. And somewhere along, the desire to study pharmaceutical sciences also developed and nurtured along with the progress of this product. It was the culmination of all the moments where I could just “see” and not “do” the experiments, that I felt the need to study about the science behind the pharmaceutical
My thoughts swung back and forth, with HPLC as my only company in the otherwise empty lab. I reflected on my first few days in the pharmaceutical industry, when I was a fresh graduate student, with very limited knowledge of the drug discovery processes. I had to work harder than my peers who had a pharmacy degree, to understand the concepts of drug action, drug delivery and the many other principles of pharmaceutics. I went over the time when I stayed back late to refer journals and books for the projects I was working on. I could recollect my manager selecting me to work …show more content…
I observed the effective transport of the drug across cell lines, the efficacy in rat litters in stalling cataract development, its lingering bioavailability in rats. All these studies which proved the safety and efficacy of the ophthalmic product that I had helped develop, fascinated me. And somewhere along, the desire to study pharmaceutical sciences also developed and nurtured along with the progress of this product. It was the culmination of all the moments where I could just “see” and not “do” the experiments, that I felt the need to study about the science behind the pharmaceutical