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Focus on developing materials and technologies that improve healthcare. People in this field synthesize pharmaceuticals and design drug delivery systems that contribute to new medical treatments.

The most common career paths involve:

• Drug synthesis
  Design and synthesize new pharmaceutical compounds that can be used to prevent, diagnose, or treat diseases. Optimize their chemical structure to improve effectiveness, safety, stability, and manufacturability before they progress to clinical development.
• Drug delivery systems
  Design smart delivery systems that transport medicines to specific locations in the body, improving treatment effectiveness and reducing side effects.
• Nanomedicine
  Apply nanotechnology to medicine by developing nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery, medical imaging, diagnostics, and cancer therapy.
• Regenerative medicine
  Develop materials and technologies that stimulate the body's natural ability to repair or replace damaged tissues.

Biotechnology is about developing products and processes based on living organisms or biological systems. This field plays a crucial role in the production of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, enzymes, food ingredients, and sustainable chemicals.

The most common jobs at this field include: 

• Biosensors & diagnostics
  Develop biosensors and diagnostic tools that enable fast and accurate detection of diseases, biomarkers, pathogens, and other biological targets for use in clinics.
• Tissue engineering
  Develop materials and scaffolds that support the repair or regeneration of damaged tissues and organs.
• Fermentation technology
  Develop and optimize fermentation processes for producing pharmaceuticals, food ingredients, biofuels, enzymes, and other biobased products.
• Downstream processing
  Purify and recover biological products after fermentation or cell culture using filtration, chromatography, centrifugation, and other separation techniques.
• Genetic engineering
  Engineer genes, cells, and biomolecules to develop new diagnostic tools, improve biosensor performance, and enable precise detection of biological targets.