Hi liewstone, in my opinion Singapore is indeed one of the better places in the world to pursue a PhD in biomedicine or pharmacology (my field). NUS ranks very highly in the pharmacology field (best in Asia). My impression is that Singapore is also a good place to pursue scientific research as a career but I cannot confirm this.

This post has been edited by Farmer_C: Apr 4 2015, 11:27 AM

I've never worked in a pharmaceutical company as a researcher but I guess it would be the same as if you worked in academia as a researcher.

The main difference is that pharmaceutical companies are very rich and so your research will not run out of funding (until they decide the project is a dead end). You probably get paid more too. If you work in academia, you always have to compete and fight with other groups for funding from the government and we all know, no money = no research = no employment.

People in academia always judge researchers in industry as 'traitors' or 'sell-outs' because they work in a organisation that puts profit first and not science. I think that's a bit unfair though.