DuPont has been named one of the best employers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry in the 2007 Science Magazine  Top Employers survey. 

This is the first DuPont appearance on the survey’s top 20 listing.  The company’s number seven ranking places it ahead of other companies in the plant biotechnology industry.  DuPont also was recognized for its efforts in the area of bio-based technologies.

Science’s annual survey of Top Employers polls employees in the biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical and related industries.  Respondents to the web-based survey were asked to rate companies on 23 characteristics.  DuPont was recognized for doing important, quality research; having loyal employees; and being socially responsible.  The 2007 results are based on 3,157 survey responses from readers of Science and other respondents in industry.  Twenty-nine percent of the respondents came from outside the United States, primarily Western Europe, and 92 percent worked in private industry.

“We are proud to be recognized as a top employer.  For more than 200 years, DuPont researchers and scientists have delivered innovative, science-based solutions to make the world a healthier, safer and better place,” said Uma Chowdhry , DuPont senior vice president and chief science and technology officer.  “We are uniquely positioned to use our leading-edge science and global reach to meet the needs of a growing population.”