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Biotech companies range in sized from startups that employ a few individuals to large multinational organizations that employ tens of thousands to over 100 thousand individuals. Similarly, companies can have a singularly focused business activity to several divisions with each one focused on one or more business areas. Job areas follow a similar pattern. Some kinds of jobs are specialized for a particular business area and other jobs, such as those related to documentation or quality control broadly support many business areas. This page shows how different terms that describe business areas, job areas and careers could interrelate. The word clouds use size and color to indicate how often a particular term is used. Working definitions are as follows:

  • Business Area = The kind of work, or area of investigation performed a company
  • Job Area = The  kind of work that is performed to support a business area
  • Entry Jobs = How a career can be developed for different jobs and business areas 

Business Areas

3D cell culture 3D Printing AAV Acquisitions Adenovirus Adjuvants ADME-tox Aerospace Agbiotech Aging Agriculture Agtech Algae Allergy ALS Alzheimer's Analytical Chemistry Analytical Services Ancestry Animal Care Animal Models Animal Nutrition Antibacterials Antibiotics Antibodies Antifungals Antigens Antimicrobials Antisense Oligonucletide (ASO) Antisense RNA Antitoxins Antivenoms Antivirals Apparel Apps Aptamers Aquaculture Artificial Hair Artificial Intelligence Assays Asthma Attorneys Autism Autoimmunity Automation BACE Baculoviruses Beauty Bees Beverages Biobanking Bioconcrete Biodefense Biofabrication Biofilm Biofuels Bioindustrial manufacturing Bioinformatics Biologics Biomanufacturing Biomarkers Biomaterials Biomedical Biopesticides Biopharmaceuticals Bioplastics Biopsy Bioreactors Bioremediation Biorepository Biosafety Biosensors Biosimilars Biospecimens Biostatistics Biotechnology Products Biotechnology Services Block Chain Blood Blood Center Bone Brain Breast Cancer Brewery Brewing BTC-Partner Building materials Calibration Cancer Cancer Diagnostics Cancer Research Cancer Therapeutics Cancer Vaccines Cannabinoids Cannabis CAR-T Carbohydrates Carbon capture Carbon Sequestration Cardiovascular Catheter Cats Cell-Free Cell and Gene Therapy Cell Assays Cell Banking Cell Culture Cell Culture Media Cell Lines Cell Products Cells Cellular Agriculture Cellular Aquaculture Central Nervous System cGMP Cheese Chemicals Chemiinformatics Chemistry Chickens Chloroplasts Chocolate Chromatography Cleaning Products Cleanroom Climate tech Clinical Imaging Clinical Research Clinical Trial Services Cloning Cloud Computing Coffee College Colorectal Cancer Community College Conservation Construction Consulting Consumer products Contraceptives Contract Biologics Contract Chemistry Contract Development Contract Drug Discovery Contract Fill and Finish Contract Formulation Contract Manufacturing Contract Research Contract Services Controlled Environment Agriculture Cosmetics COVID-19 CRISPR Cultivated meat Cybersecurity Cystic Fibrosis Cytogenetics Cytokines Cytometry Dairy Data Analysis Databases Defense Dermatology Detergent Diabetes Diagnostics Dialysis Devices Digital Medicines Digital Phenotyping Direct to Consumer Disease Models Distillery DNA DNA/RNA Synthesis DNA Methylation DNA Preparation DNA Sequencing DNA storage DNA Testing DNA Vaccines Dogs Drug Addiction Drug Delivery Drug Development Drug Discovery Drug Testing Dyes Education Electronic Notebook ELISA Engineering Environmental Monitoring Environmental Testing Enzymes Epigenetics Epilepsy Epitopes EUA Exosomes Eye care Fabric Fashion Fermentation Fermented Food Fertility Fertilizer Fibers Filtration Fisheries Flavorings Flow Cytometry Food Food Safety Forensics Formulation Fossil Fuels Fragrances Fruit Fungi Games Gastrointestinal Disorders Gene Delivery Gene Drive Gene Editing Gene Expression Generics Gene Synthesis Genetic Disease Genetic Testing Genome Engineering Genomics Genotyping global health Glucose Glycans Government GPCR (G Protein Coupled Receptor) Health Care Health Care Technology Health Research Health Services Hearing Hi-C High-Throughput Screening HIV HLA Homeopathy Hormones Horticulture Hydroponics Imaging Immuno-oncology Immunoassays Immunohistochemistry Immunology Immunoprofiling Immunotherapy Implants Incubators and Accelerators Industrial Biotech Infectious Disease Inflammation Informatics Ingredients Inhalables Ink In Licensing Insects Instrumentation Insulin Delivery International Markets Investment IRB Job board Kidney Laboratory Diagnostics Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Laboratory Instruments Laboratory Services Lab Supplies Leather Legal Licensing Agreements Lice Treatment Liquid Biopsy Liquid Handling Liver Disease lncRNA Lung Lyophilization Machine Learning Malaria Male Health Marine Biotechnology Marketing Market Place Mass Spectrometry Meat Medical Center Medical Devices Medical Imaging Medical Products Medical Technology Medicinal Chemistry Medicine Mental Health Metabolic Engineering Metabolism Metabolomics Metagenomics Metals Microarrays Microbial Fermentation Microbial Testing Microbiology Microbiome Microfluidics Micropropagation Microscopy Milk Milk analysis miRNA Mitochondria Molecular Biology Molecular Diagnostics Molecular Imaging MRI mRNA Muscle Mycelium Nanomedicine Nanoparticles Nanotechnology Natural Products Natural Resources Neurobiology Neurological Disease Neuromuscular Disease Newborn Nitric Oxide NK cells Non-profit Nucleic Acids Nutraceuticals Nutrition Nutritional Supplements Obesity Oncology Ophthalmology Opioids Orals Organoids Orphan Diseases Orthopedics OTC Oxygen Packaging Pain Management Parkinson's Disease Partnering Pathogen Control Pathology PCR Peptides Peptide Synthesis Personalized Medicine Pest Control Pets Phage Phage Display Phage Technology Phage Therapeutics Pharmaceutical manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceutical Services Pharmacogenomics Pharmacology Photobioreactors Photodisinfection Photosynthesis Phototherapy Pigments Plant-based meat Plant-based protein Plant Breeding Plant Growth Plant Protein Expression Plants Plant Tissue Culture Plasmids Plastic Point-of-Care Diagnostics Polio Polymers Prebiotics Precision Dosing Precision Medicine Precision tech Preclinical Prenatal Probiotics Process Development Prodrugs Prostate Cancer Protein Degradation Protein Design Protein Engineering Protein Kinase Protein Purification Proteins Protein Synthesis Proteomics Psilocybin Psoriasis Psychedelics Psychotherapy Public Health Public Policy Purification Pyrolysis Quality Assurance Quality Control Quality Management Systems Radiation Therapy Radiochemicals Rare Diseases Reagents Recombinants Recruitment Recycling Referral service Reformulation Regenerative Medicine Regulatory Consulting Renewable Energy Reproductive Medicine Research Reseller Resource recovery Respiratory RNA RNAi RNA Prep RNA Sequencing Robotics Rubber Saliva Testing Sample Prep Screening Seafood Seed Treatment Sensors and Systems Sepsis Service provider Services Shellfish Shoes Sickle Cell Silk Single Cell Analysis Skin Sleep Small Molecules Software Space Spatial Omics Spices Spider Silk Spinal Health Sporting goods Sports medicine Staffing Stem Cells Sterilization Strain Engineering Stroke Structural Biology Supply Chain Services Sustainability Synthetic Biology Synthetic Organs T-Cells Technical consulting Textiles Theranostics Therapeutic Proteins Therapeutics Tissue-Engineering Tissues Topicals Toxicology Transplant Assessment Transplant Research Trees tRNA Ultrasound University Upcycling Urology Vaccines Vegetable-based Oils Vertical Farming Veterinary Viral Vectors Virology Virotherapy Virtual Reality Viruses Vision Waste Management Wastewater Water Wine Women's Health Wound Care Xenografts Yeast

Job Areas

Agricultural biotechnology Animal biotechnology Aquaculture Biodefense Biofuels Biomanufacturing Biomaterials Biopharmaceuticals Bioprocessing Biotechnology Cell culture Conservation biology Cosmetics Documentation Drug discovery Education Environmental monitoring Food Safety Forensics Genomics Immunochemistry Lab Safety Marine biotechnology Media and Solution preparation Medical devices Medical diagnostics Molecular biology Natural products Nutraceuticals Plant biotechnology Protein purification Quality control Specialty chemicals Synthetic biology Vaccines Water quality

Entry-level Jobs