What can I do with my degree in biochemistry?
Knowledge & Skills Developed:
- Adaptability to different work environments
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills (verbal & written)
- Critical & inferential thinking
- Ethical practice
- Experimental design
- Laboratory equipment operation
- Organization, analysis, & interpretation of scientific data
- Performing calculations using complex formulae
- Project management
- Scientific writing
- Theory development
Potential Careers:
- Bacteriologist
- Biochemist
- Clinical Biochemist
- Cytologist
- Food & Drug Inspector
- Food Science Technologist
- Forensic Laboratory Analyst
- Geneticist
- Immunologist
- Laboratory Technician
- Medical Librarian
- Medical Writer
- Pharmaceutical Researcher
- Pharmaceutical Sales
- Professor/Teacher
- Public Health Officer
- Quality Control Manager
- Research Scientist
- Toxicologist
- Virologist
Note: Additional education or specialized training is required for many occupations.
Explore hundreds of Alberta Occupational Profiles at www.alis.gov.ab.ca/occinfo
Potential Employers:
- 3M Science
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Agroforestry Development Centre
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
- Alberta Environment and Parks
- ALS Canada
- Amgen
- BioLargo
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Canadian Space Agency
- Delta Genomics
- Environment Canada
- Gilead Alberta ULC
- Guardian Chemicals
- Husky
- Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
- Johnson & Johnson
- Lululemon
- Maple Leaf
- Natural Resources Canada - CanmetEnergy
- Nova Chemicals
- Parks Canada Agency
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Syncrude Canada Ltd.
- The Metabolomics Innovation Centre
- University of Alberta
Professional Associations:
Canadian Society for Chemistry
Canadian Society for Clinical Chemists
Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences