These professionals evaluate the properties of various living organisms in order to investigate their applications to medicine and other industries.

Scientists in these areas find employment at bachelors degree level as well as with graduate degrees.

Snapshot: http://science-education.nih.gov/nihHTML/ose/snapshots/multimedia/pds/biomedical/biomed1.html

Career profile: http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/CC/CP/10ka/index.html

Read more about these career paths:

AIDS research: http://recruit.sciencemag.org/feature/advice/foc-aids2.shl

Cancer research: http://recruit.sciencemag.org/feature/advice/cancercar.shl

Salary data and more from medical devices industries: http://www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/00/10/001.html

links for careers in biomedical sciences: http://www.his.com/~graeme/employ.html

Sample Program:

The University of Nebraska has a Biomedical Research Training Program. It offers a common entry point from which students can choose between 90 research laboratories in basic sciences of the College of Medicine. It is thus multidisciplinary and provides great flexibility. To learn more, go to http://www.unmc.edu/brtp