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Yes,  your web admin is on the search for the next Job.  Our grant has ended, we managed to stretch out the funding for my position another year, T/A’ing a med school class, and now the grant is exhausted.   Luckily, I’ve had one interview, and I have another scheduled for Tuesday.

I have to tell you, I take it a little personally when I hear conservatives who are against the funding of bio-tech research with their concerns about the number of jobs it will create.

So why fund biotech research?

It is important to note that the medical technology industry is a critical component of the U.S. health sector and the economy overall. As reported in 2006, the medical technology industry employed over 300,000 workers with combined salaries of $21.5 billion and exported about $24 billion worth of products including a variety of medical devices.

–The examiner.

I’m quite excited about the possibilities.  This time around, the resume is much stronger, and there are several opportunities available, which puts me light years ahead of the last time a grant ended.  Let’s see how things go.  I know I’m now writing the optimism of someone that’s still employed.

I’m going to spend some serious time looking into these small businesses supported through economic recovery act if my academic leads don’t pull through.

Send your lab manager and research associate positions my way…