Pharmacology or pharmacists?

If you want to be a doctor you have to take the ucat. And yes there's loads of great medical schools in Manchester and London. The duration depends on which Uni you choose. Some do 5 years, other do 6 years. It really depends. Best of luck xx

Hi to everyone one,
I would like to study to become the doctor who creates medicines and approves a certain drug before it is put on the market. What kind of university should I go to? Is there this kind of university in Manchester/ London? How many years of study are there? Is there an entrance test to take as an international student?

The people "creating" new medicines are usually not the ones approving it (certainly one would hope anyway...).
Doing research into new medicines could fall into different areas, chemists may be involved in the design and/or synthesis of new drugs, pharmacologists may do research on newly designed drugs to understand how they work exactly, and biomedical researchers of various sorts may be involved in both the basic sciences and possibly clinical trials side of things. Chemical and biological engineers would likely be involved in the processing side and scaling that to industrial scales. Approval of drugs to go into the market I believe in the UK sits with the MHRA and there's probably various roles within that and routes into those roles with different responsibilities requiring different backgrounds.
Note also there are medical doctors involved in related areas such as pharmaceutical medicine or clinical pharmacology and therapeutics which are both approved medical specialties in the UK (which you would need a medical degree for).
I think really you need to be a lot more specific in what your goal is?

I would like my final goal to be to become someone who reformulates drugs, for example: there is already a drug that exists like Tylenol and I just have to reproduce it like "cook it".Adding all the ingredients needed to "create" the Tylenol