Dr. Kin-Kai Hwang, is a Senior Scientist in the Drug Metabolism and Pharmaco-kinetics Department at Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. During the past 18 years, he has served as scientist, manager and department head, responsible for providing pre-clinical ADME information for more than 19 IND/NDA submissions. Since 1995, he has developed and implemented various in vitro and in situ absorption and metabolism models to screen and select clinical candidates from a series of analogs based upon the best ADME properties. Most recent, he is in charge of establishing high throughput screening technologies at Aventis Pharma in support of lead generation and optimization. Dr. Hwang had one patent granted and published more than 93 manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters in the major pharmaceutical and toxicological journals. Dr. Hwang also is an adjunct professor at the School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Many Chinese students graduated from the University are choosing their professional career as a Pharmaceutical Scientist working for Pharmaceutical Industries. However, after a short period of time working for pharmaceutical company, some of them encountered a great difficulty and hurdle for advancing their career due to the lack of skills and strategies in career development. This presentation will identify the issues and discuss improvement strategies. The key to success is establishment of a good relationships at your work place.

• Negotiation and communication skills
• Understand culture differences
• Presentation skills
• Compassion and composure
• Quantity and quality of work
• Intellectual horsepower
• Work/life balance