A pharmacologist is an expert in how medicines work and their effects on the body.

Drug Expertise

Pharmacologists often work in universities or research institutes contributing to scientific knowledge.

Academic Context

Pharmacologists can work in various environments, like labs, companies, or hospitals.

Job Roles

 And one of the phenomenal things that I love about this is the sense of community. There's a kid in Nicaragua teaching others how to identify mosquito species that carry dengue by looking at the larva under a microscope. There's a pharmacologist who came up with a new way

Lifesaving scientific...

 moly was dismissed as fictional invention for centuries. But in 1951, Russian pharmacologist Mikhail Mashkovsky discovered that villagers in the Ural Mountains used a plant with a milk-white flower and a black root to stave off paralysis in children suffering from polio.

The science behind the...

 So, again it's not only snakes, it's sea anemones, different sort of fishes, amphibians, even some primates have toxic secretions. So what we do as pharmacologist is we collect all of these venomous creatures from all over the world,