As final year students, you are most likely wondering what will be the next stage of your career.  It’s a big decision what to do next and it’s important that you put time and effort in to preparing for the next step.  Hopefully this site will help you with this decision.  One aspect I felt could help you was if I posted where some of the students from the last few years have gone with their degrees, so please see this below.

  • Analytical, Stability and Physical Science Technician…..now Analytical Chemist, Almac Group
  • Business Development Coordinator, Almac Group
  • Quality Control Analyst, Norbrook Laboratories (after MSc Molecular Biology & Biotechnology)
  • Quality Control Analyst, Norbrook Laboratories (after MSc Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & process technology)
  • Formulations Technician, Norbrook Laboratories
  • Assistant Laboratory co-ordinator of Quality Control, Norbrook Laboratories
  • Analytical Technician grade 1……now promoted to Grade 2, Almac group
  • Associate Operations Specialist – Drug Safety (Quintiles)…then M.Sc Regenerative Medicine (NUIG)…now Ph.D in Germany
  • M.Sc in Bioinformatics (DCU)..now PhD Student (Belgium)…”Chromosomal Deletions as Prognostic Markers of Drug Sensitivity in Breast Cancer”
  • M.Sc in Molecular Medicine (Queens) now PhD student in Oral Biosciences at TCD
  • Ph.D (Trinity College Dublin)
  • Process Technician (Pfizer)
  • M.Sc Genomics (UK)
  • Ph.D DNA Damage (Vienna)
  • M.Sc Oral Drug Development (UCD/DCU)
  • QC Administrator – Amgen
  • M.Sc Regenerative Medicine (NUIG);  now PhD candidate in Cardiovascular Development in Madrid, Spain
  • Chemical Stability Analyst (Norbrook Laboratories)…now QC Analyst in Forest Laboratories
  • Becton, Dickinson and Company (Drogheda) now QC analyst in Janssen Biologics (Cork)
  • PhD. in Smooth Muscle Research Centre (Dundalk IT)
  • R&D department at Ovelle pharmaceuticals, Dundalk
  • Quality Control Analyst, Niche Generics, Dublin
  • Laboratory Aide, Mater Hospital, Dublin
  • Irish Research Council funded PhD in Morrison lab, NUIG
  • NUIG funded PhD in Lowndes lab, NUIG
  • Quality Control, Millmount Healthcare
  • M.Sc in Cancer Research, NUIG
  • M.Sc in Microbiology, Northumberland University, UK.
  • M.Sc Regenerative Medicine (NUIG).
  • Analytical Scientist in Almac Group.