Phillip Broadwith
Business editor, Chemistry World
As Business editor, my aim is to highlight to readers the exciting and innovative chemistry going on in the commercial sector, as well as keeping you abreast of trends and developments in the world of chemistry businesses.
From the point I left school, my aim was to join the pharmaceutical industry. A gap year and summer placements in company labs, and a PhD in organic synthesis followed.
But halfway through my PhD I entered a writing competition run by the Daily Telegraph. I managed to win – somewhat to my own surprise. That changed my perspective and made me think that I should consider writing more seriously as a career. I joined the Royal Society of Chemistry just before submitting my thesis, and luckily a position with Chemistry World came up a few months later. I sometimes miss the thrills (less so the spills) of lab work, but interacting with world-leading scientists and industrialists, as well as learning new things on a daily basis more than makes up for it.
BusinessExplosion and fire at South Korean battery plant kills 23
Three company officials under investigation for potential safety violations
BusinessSix dead in explosion and fire at Indian pharmaceutical plant
At least 17 others injured at SB Organics facility near Hyderabad
BusinessChemours sacks top executives following accounting probe
Review found officers manipulated cashflow to hit targets and affect bonus payments
OpinionMaking chemicals safe and sustainable
The green transition is an opportunity to also make industry simpler and safer
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Over 200 injured, and loss of fuel stores threatens power generation
BusinessIllumina to give up Grail as competition appeals fail
Sequencing giant will sell off its former spin-out in accordance with regulator orders
BusinessFatal explosion and fire at blending plant in Australia
One worker killed by incident at ACB Group in Melbourne
BusinessUS ammonia tanker spill kills five
Seven others hospitalised after traffic incident released 15,000 litres of anhydrous ammonia
OpinionResistant to change
Curbing industrial practices that drive antimicrobial resistance needs tighter regulation and enforcement
BusinessAntibodies face Alzheimer’s reality
Companies are convincing regulators, but will doctors use them, and will providers pay for them?
OpinionWho knew what? And when?
Finding the line between commercially sensitive information and public and environmental protection
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Carbios can return even hard-to-recycle polyester fibres and textiles to their constituent monomers
ResearchAromatic molecules in a galaxy far, far away
JWST IR observations suggest star formation was rapid and uneven in early galaxy
BusinessDeadly explosion and fire at US pharmaceutical plant
One worker killed and four hospitalised at Seqens in Newburyport
BusinessFive dead after explosion at plant in China
Blast in hydrogen peroxide unit of Sinochem plant in Liaocheng
OpinionBattery materials going up in smoke
We cannot afford to simply throw away, rather than recycle, these valuable resources
BusinessMerck & Co to buy immunology specialist Prometheus
$10.8 billion cash deal give Merck rights to late-stage candidate for two inflammatory bowel conditions