Our Quality and technical director, Elena Comas, has held a training and motivational session for 4th grade Pharmacy students at the University of Barcelona.
During the session, she offered the university students an explanation of the many professional opportunities for Pharmacy studies, including the food supplement industry. “Although pharmacy students don’t tend to think about this industry, the food supplements sector is a very good option,” she explained to them. This is because it is an area that has evolved significantly in recent years and is in full development and growth. The high degree of innovation that can be found in a company like Nutraresearch, which is firmly committed to high quality standards like those of the pharmaceutical sector and applies the latest technology through complex equipment, also makes this industry an attractive place for students. of pharmacy.
“Our mission,” Comas stated, “is to respond to the different needs detected, creating new products for populations that require these solutions.” These solutions are different depending on the target audience: the elderly, athletes, people with symptoms of fatigue, stress, sleep, joint, and digestive problems, people who need to lose weight, with food allergies, etc.
At this point, the technical and quality director of the NutraResearch group has explained what food supplements are, what their properties are, their galenic composition, the regulations they must follow and how they are presented.
Knowledge, habits and values
Comas, a graduate in Pharmacy from the same University of Barcelona with a specialty in the pharmaceutical industry and a Master’s in International Business, has explained to the students her professional career since leaving the Faculty. Based on her experience of her, she has shown students the importance of not only acquiring knowledge, but also following values and work habits that are just as decisive in the workplace.
Thus, she has highlighted the value of effort, of maintaining a commitment to oneself and to the organization of which one is a part, of knowing how to work as a team, and of being flexible in the face of changes, without being discouraged by setbacks. Undoubtedly, a talk that has turned out to be highly motivating, due to the great passion that Elena Comas transmits when explaining the work she does on a daily basis.