White Paper: The Role Of SFC In Pharmaceutical Discovery

Every large pharmaceutical organization will include groups that support the activities of medicinal or synthetic chemists. Among these support groups will typically be a chromatography laboratory. The chromatography laboratory will be staffed by specialists who work closely with medicinal chemists to attempt to reduce the time needed to bring a new entity from the test tube to something called drug candidate status. Note that medicinal chemists are perfectly well able to purify their own mixtures and that some organizations still allow (or even insist) that they do so.