Careers and Recruitment

As key players on scientific teams, biostatisticians are in high demand. Kendall Powell sums up the situation.

As Western lifestyles spread around the world, diabetes has become an epidemic. Improved treatments are desperately needed, and the funding is there for those who may be able to help, says Ricki Lewis.

Chemical biology, using chemical tools to solve biological problems, is awakening interest among students and creating a new breed of researcher, says Tim Chapman.

Matching the march of evolution, developmental biology is branching out to encompass a wide variety of disciplines. As a result, recruiters want skills as well as qualifications, says Ricki Lewis.

Diagnosis has traditionally been overshadowed by new drug discoveries. But the expansion of molecular diagnostics is creating new careers for researchers in many fields. Hannah Hoag reports.

Makers of beer, wine and cheese need microbiologists to keep fermented products at their peak. Kendall Powell gets a taste of the career offerings.

Born of necessity in the Victorian era, tropical medicine has been given a new impetus by genomics, philanthropy and an increasing awareness of the toll of tropical diseases. This is leading to new opportunities in tropical-disease research. Eugene Russo reports.

Opportunities in bioinformatics once abounded for the self-taught and industrially minded, but employers are now turning towards the formally trained and academics. Myrna Watanabe reports.

Drug companies are seeking help in their efforts to use the new understanding of cancer's complexities.

If you can reassemble an organism from its component parts then a wealth of jobs may await you, says Hannah Hoag.

Scientists who can combine geographic information systems with satellite data are in demand in a variety of disciplines. Virginia Gewin gets her bearings.

Job growth in HIV research is shifting from laboratories in the developed world to the regions most affected by AIDS. Myrna Watanabe reports

Nanoscience is fragmenting into tinier pieces, but there are great expectations everywhere. Myrna Watanabe investigates.

Rapidly changing technology and an abundance of DNA sequences are creating more job opportunities in functional genomics — particularly for scientists who have been trained outside traditional biology. Hannah Hoag investigates.

The costs of functional genomics can be prohibitive, and job candidates often lack the skills most researchers desire, but many academic settings are creating training schemes and unique institutes to deal with these barriers. Hannah Hoag reports.

The United States may have more coordinated funding, but Europe is taking the lead in training biomedical engineers. Ralf Jox reports.

Prospects are good for biomedical engineers across industry — and there's still room for entrepreneurs, say Ralf Jox and Virginia Gewin.

Steady philanthropic support, new federal funding and increased commercial interest are mixing in the United States to create a large and growing number of opportunities for a new breed of multidisciplinary researcher, says Virginia Gewin.

Medicinal chemists are in demand more than ever before — but the vagaries of the drug-discovery market and a sluggish economy have dampened prospects temporarily, says Eugene Russo.