What exactly does a Pharmacist do?

What exactly does a RESEARCH pharmacist do? what are the roles they have to undertake? Also what knowledge, skills attitudes and values must they have to carry out their tasks?

• Answer:

  "Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with all facets of the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) into a medication able to be safely and effectively used by patients in the community. Pharmaceutics is the science of dosage form design. There are many chemicals with known pharmacological properties but a raw chemical is of no use to a patient. Pharmaceutics deals with the formulation of a pure drug substance into a dosage form" "Branches of pharmaceutics include: Pharmacokinetics Pharmacodynamics Pharmacogenomics Pharmaceutical formulation Pharmaceutical technology" Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutics Further information: http://www.research.uiowa.edu/cto/companies/research-pharmacist.html