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Specialties that raise your pay

• Clinical microbiology

  Identifying what is making a patient sick, and which antibiotic will still work. Hospital based and board certified.

• Sterility assurance and quality in drug manufacturing

  Highly paid, heavily regulated, and always hiring.

• Molecular methods

  PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and genome sequencing have replaced a lot of culturing. Knowing both makes you rare.

• Bioinformatics

  Handling sequencing data in code. The single most transferable skill in modern biology.