Career Options 

Any academic institution including K-12 institutions, colleges, universities, medical centers or free-standing research institutions.

• Academia

Science educators break down scientific concepts for the broader community. Work as a teacher to inspire future scientists. Other organizations and nonprofits need outreach coordinators and event planners to raise awareness and make science relevant to the public.

• Science Education & Outreach

Any organization operated by federal, state, local or foreign governments or non-governmental organization that does not operate to make a profit.

• Government & Non-Profit
• HR University

Many communications careers involve scientific writing in the form of journal articles, popular press articles, press releases and case study documentation.

• Science Communication & Publishing

Continue your career as a researcher in biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.

• Industry Research
• Industry Lists (PDF)

Pharmaceutical segment - The industry’s mainstay and is composed of large, fully integrated, global players.

Biotechnology segment - Is an upstart, having emerged commercially only 30 years ago, but is increasingly the engine of innovation in biomedicine.

Medical device segment - Is much older than biotech, but is composed of many fewer players, and owing to the nature of its products, exemplifies the life-saving power of “convergence”: a marriage of engineering know-how and biomedical science.

Diagnostics segment - has grown up along mainstream pharmaceuticals, and has acquired a new dynamism and centrality since the advent of the genomics revolution.

For more information, refer to the links below:

• The Future of the Biomedical Industry in an era of Globalization
• BioForward Wisconsin

Build a company or apply your skills to business.

• Business & Commercialization
• The Science Careers Guide to Consulting Careers for PhD scientists

Help people conduct and use science, responsibly. Patent and intellectual property, science policy experts, and regulatory affairs professionals involves expert scientific knowledge combined with the ability to read and write highly detailed laws, policies & procedures.

• Law, Policy, & Regulatory Affairs

Apply your scientific background to improving the physical and mental well-being of others. 

• Medicine & Healthcare

Biochemistry

• American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

Biology

• Society for Developmental Biology (SDB)
• American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

Chemistry

• American Chemical Society (ACS)

General

• The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Medicine Biology

• Biomedical Engineering Society (BES)
• National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR)

Microbiology & Immunology

• American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
• American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

Neuroscience

• Society for Neuroscience (SFN)

Physics

• American Physical Society (APS)

Physiology

• American Physiological Society

Public Health

• American Public Health Association

Toxicology

• Society for Toxicology (SOT)