• Question: have you ever made some harmful drugs?

    Asked by to Jess on 14 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by hcooper13, .
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      Jess Smith answered on 14 Mar 2014:


      No we try to avoid that!

      Drug development takes a really, really long time. As I have only been a (proper) scientist for 3 years I haven’t made anything that has gone all the way to the shelf yet. But it would be very difficult to produce a drug that is harmful (assuming that the patient is taking it correctly), because we have such careful testing in the UK.

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