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Where The Jobs Are: Systems Biology
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With so many science programs getting the ax - nevermind what Bush said in his State of the Union Address, scientists who depend on NSF, NIH, and NASA funding, among others, are suffering this year - it's good to hear of a field that is growing. This week's issue of Science has two special feature articles on careers in systems biology, which is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines biology with physics, computer science, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering. If you're having trouble finding a postdoc position in, say, astrophysics, you might have better career prospects in systems biology. The two feature articles focus separately on careers in Europe and the United States, which is considered the leader in systems biology research. The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, Washington is the article's poster child for a successful young lab. ISB is an independent research institute founded in 2000 by Leroy Hood after he "concluded that he couldn't arrange a successful marriage between computing and biology in the academic environment of the University of Washington." According to the Science article on the US market, "systems biology is in heavy demand. 'Systems biology is very fashionable. Until it is fully established in all of the major universities, there will be a lot of hires, either new hires or professors that are reminting themselves,' predicts David Galas, a researcher at ISB and vice president and chief scientific officer of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Roger Brent (pictured), president and research director of the independent Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) in Berkeley, California, agrees. 'I'd say that this is a time in which a talented young person who demonstrates an ability to make real contributions can pretty close to write their own ticket in terms of what they can do academically and intellectually,' he says." |
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