Description
Conduct laboratory and clinical research to understand human disease and improve health, leading studies, developing methods and therapeutics, and communicating findings.
- • Plan and direct studies on disease mechanisms, prevention, and treatments.
- • Follow biosafety and chemical safety procedures when handling hazardous materials.
- • Evaluate effects and mechanisms of drugs, biologics, toxins, parasites, and microorganisms.
- • Teach and mentor physicians, residents, students, and laboratory technicians.
- • Prepare and analyze organ, tissue, cell, and fluid samples to detect toxicity, pathogens, and structural changes.
- • Design and standardize dosing regimens, immunization methods, and manufacturing procedures for therapeutics.
- • Investigate causes, progression, life cycles, and transmission pathways of diseases and parasites.
- • Collaborate with public health agencies, industry, and clinicians to develop health standards and programs.
- • Study human and animal physiology and pathophysiology.
- • Advise clinicians, educators, and researchers on medical applications of biology, chemistry, and physics.
- • Operate and maintain instruments such as atomic absorption spectrometers, electron microscopes, flow cytometers, and chromatography systems.
- • Develop and validate experimental methodologies, assays, and medical devices; analyze data and present findings to scientific and general audiences.
- • Write and publish articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- • Prepare grant proposals to secure research funding.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
