Sites with Employment Information for Biologists

[update]19 April 2004
[San Diego] Note: This page is especially focused on the San Diego area.
Sites marked with this icon are SD-specific.

Not all of the sites list bachelor's degree level jobs, however, they are included so you can see what opportunities are available for those with advanced degrees as well. Not all links have jobs only for biologists, but a few such jobs may be found within the listings.

Please notify me (cloer at sandiego dot edu [spam-blocked address]) should you find any links are non-functional or if you would like me to add a link to this page. -- Curtis Loer, Associate Professor of Biology, University of San Diego

[San Diego] University of San Diego Career Services

  • Don't forget graduate school as an intermediate "career" - Check out PhDs.Org, a fantastic resource for undergraduates considering graduate school, current graduate students, postdocs and beyond. Along with all the useful information and advice, one can also make a list of rankings of importance, submit the form and instantly get back a list of programs that rate highly by your standards.
  • About Careers in Biotechnology from the Massachussetts Biotechnology Council, a biotech trade organization. Although some information is region-specific, much is useful to any student seeking information about working in Biotech.
  • Job openings at the National Institutes of Health - All the way back on the East Coast...
  • Department of the Interior Jobs Information
  • SCIENCE Professional Network - Career opportunities, workshops, links to employers from AAAS, the publishers of Science.
  • Employment Links for the Biomedical Scientist - from Graeme Eisenhofer
  • On Assignment - long- and short-term employment through LabSupport or EnviroStaff
  • Aerotek Scientific - employer/employee matching, including scientific staff
  • Jobs working with C. elegans - links to start-up/drug discovery companies and others working with my favorite worm.
  • BioSpace Career Center - Biotech and Pharmaceutical Jobs
    [San Diego]BioSpace's Biotech Beach (Southern California) Job Listings

  • Student Conservation Association, Inc. - Internships and employment in the conservation field.
    [San Diego] San Diego Research/Academic Institution Jobs

  • The Burnham Institute Employment page, formerly The La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation
  • The Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics
  • Salk Institute General Employment page
  • Scripps Research Institute research technician positions
  • Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center job opportunities
  • UCSD Research Assistant and Lab Technicians Jobs
    [San Diego] San Diego Biotech, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies and Related Organizations

  • BIOCOM - San Diego Biotech Trade Organization
  • UCSD Connect - Program in Technology and Entrepeneurship

    JOB LISTINGS

  • Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Accelrys
  • ACON Laboratories, Inc.
  • Alaris Medical Systems
  • Alcock & McFadden Employment Consultants
  • Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Avanir Pharmaceuticals
  • Discover Partners International
  • DIGIRAD
  • Gen-Probe, Inc.
  • Genetronics, Inc.
  • La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company
  • Ligand Pharmaceuticals
  • MitoKor- "the mitochondrion company"
  • Nanogen, Inc.
  • Neurocrine Biosciences
  • Pfizer - must go through the main corporate website
  • Qbiogene - merger of Bio 101 and Quantum Biotechnologies
  • Sequenom
  • Stratagene
  • Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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