She is also president of the Pharmacology and Toxicology Association there. Dropping out of school altogether is an option too, but she's not condoning it. Mary Michaelis is a professor of pharmacology and toxicology. It's a major perk to not have to deal directly with paranoid hypochondriacs. Self-Medicating Pharmacologists spend a lot of time performing pharmaceutical experiments on themselves and studying the effects.
Biological research is carried out using experimental animals such as mice and rats.
Most of this type of experimental research is done in university cafeterias or research institutes. Suen recognizes that the career path she has chosen is challenging. Pharmacology's immediate imprint on me was that it is new, hot, booming and in demand. That's always a comforting thing to know, especially with the current concern that one cannot do much after finishing a science degree. People can't do much after science degrees because their brains have been completely fried by equations and all-night labs.