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Chemistry vs Biochemistry vs Medicinal Chemistry - HELP

I don't know what to do because I always thought I was going to end up doing a degree with pure Chemistry, but I'm taking HL Chemistry for IB and it's really not what I thought it would be...

And I think I want to do something on the medicine side (you know like making the medicine, curing diseases, research into diseases), so it would make sense to take Biology but I don't really like Biology on it's own.

So I was thinking of Biological and Medicinal Chemistry or Biochemistry but I don't really know the difference between them. Or would there be a way of studying both Biology and Chemistry??

Reply 1

iElvendork

Medicinal chemistry is looking into drug molecules, how to make them etc.
Biochemistry is more about chemistry in the body

Reply 2

Dominic104

I've studied Chemistry at uni back in the days (3 years ago) currently working in pharma (QA and QC) a friend of mine did medicinal chemistry working in a research lab making anti-cancer drug.