For more than two years, Curis has been outsourcing sophisticated chemistry work to Shanghai ChemPartners, a fast-growing contract research organization in an industrial park in Shanghai's Pudong district. The 25 Chinese chemists assigned to Curis help the biotech work on problems around the clock. At $50,000 to $80,000 a year including benefits, they also cost around one-fifth less than U.S.-based scientists performing similar work.
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This has been going on for quite a while.
In fact the US FDA has even been paying for their own people (typically people who are originally from the same country) to go overseas to train these scientists in what is needed for FDA approvals.
As for US scientists (especially all those who have been laid off from Big Pharma recently) well if you've been a good employee and haven't rocked the boat and are still relatively junior you too can get a job at the FDA. FDA has plenty of positions. Especially ones that are open because the scientists who previously filled them have been harassed into leaving because they ask pesky questions about the drugs that upset the customers, and FDA reviewers are evaluated based on customer satisfaction.
Yes this is America's tax dollars at work.
Barium: what you do with US chemists.
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