Choosing the perfect path to an industrial R&D career

Over the last decade, a raft of initiatives have opened up industrial careers to more people than ever before: a PhD is no longer a prerequisite. But for those who took a different path, niggling doubts can remain about how their choice may affect their career. ‘I get the impression that 20 years ago, it was far less common to enter without a PhD,’ says Marianela Gimenez-Asis, a scientist at Pharmaron. ‘But people that have been hired straight out of master’s like me, we’ve all, at some point or other, asked ourselves the question of what we’re missing.’