Derek Lowe is perhaps America’s best-known medicinal chemist. That may not sound like much, but in a quiet field where most people go through their entire careers without discovering a marketable drug, it’s tough to make a name for yourself.
In 2002, Lowe became the first industry insider to start a blog — and he’s been enthusiastically at it ever since, writing on his blog In the Pipeline between experiments at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston. STAT spoke with Lowe about Internet trolls, his love for chemical reactions, and his new book on the history of chemistry.
