Derek Lowe is a medicinal chemist working on preclinical drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry.
[2] Lowe (born in Harrisburg, Arkansas) got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke University on synthesis of natural products, before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship.
[3][4] Lowe was one of the first people to blog from inside the pharmaceutical industry, with the approval of his supervisor and the company legal department,[5] and one of the first science bloggers.
[7] As of 2010[update] his blog received between 15,000 and 20,000 page views on a typical weekday.
[8] His response to a 2013 article in BuzzFeed that propagated chemophobia was widely cited.