All About Biotech Research by
Morgan Hamilton
One of my friends, a former community college student at the school at the same
time I was working there, has decided to go into biotech research. She is
technologically savvy and at the same time is fascinated with and good at
working with the environment, and hopes to make some important contributions to
our area (Northern California). So what does it mean to do biotech research?
What does it take to get into the field of biotechnology? And how much dough can
you make?
Biotech research can involve anything in the life sciences, from "human health
and computational disease mapping to crop and tree improvements," as those
studies are done by students at the Biotech Research Center at Michigan Tech,
from "forensics, [the] testing of biotoxins, and management of the nation's
organ transplantation process" to "drug development, medical diagnostics,
biomedical engineering, and environmental analysis," such as those done at
Virginia Biotechnology Research Park, or from biogenetic engineering, farming,
or nutritional assessment and engineering to toxicology, biomedical imaging and
engineering, or food, drug, and environmental technologies, as conducted by
University of California Biotechnology Research and Education Program (UC BREP).
How much a person in biotech research makes depends on what funding the biotech
research facilities are backed by. At the Biotech Research Center at Michigan
Tech, for instance, funding is at $8.3 million, provided by such organizations
as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),the National Science Foundation (NSF),
the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the U.S. Drug Administration (USDA).
At the same time, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the biotech research engineer (as well as the biomedical engineer)
make an average of $48,503 with a bachelor's degree and around $59,667 with a
master's degree.
But will the jobs in biotech research be there when my friend and you finish
your degrees? Well, again according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of
Labor Statistics, the projection for job growth in the field of biotech research
in particular but biotechnological engineering in general looks good through
2014, with the growth "much faster than average. This, BLS asserts, will be
attributed to the aging of the population, the increased focus on health issues,
and the demand for "better medical biomedical engineers." Because of the
heightened interest in biotech research and biomedicine, more degrees are
granted in these fields/areas...and hopefully, more grants are awarded!
About the Author:
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