Human Diagnostics and Therapy

The specialists are behind the scenes medical and clinical technologists and technicians, specializing in any number of arenas and working in hospitals, in laboratories at major diagnostic companies like Genentech, or in production at medical equipment manufacturers, make their careers at developing the science and technology that winds up being used throughout the healthcare industry.

As the industry has retained its steady growth, and there are a wide variety of fields and specialties (such as gene therapy, cell transplantation, xenotransplantation, cancer research and vaccine production, to name a few), the job outlook for biological technicians is stronger than the average for scientific technicians (12% growth projected back in 2006, looking toward 2012).