What can I do with my degree in immunology and infection?
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
- Physiological understanding of micro-organisms
- Project management
- Scientific writing
- Strong understanding of vertebrate immune system
- Theory development
Potential Careers:
- Bacteriologist
- Biologist
- Epidemiologist
- Forensic Pathologist
- Geneticist
- Health Care Professions
- Immunologist
- Laboratory Technician
- Medical Error Consultant
- Medical Librarian
- Microbiologist
- Molecular Biologist
- Parasitologist
- Professor/Teacher
- Research Scientist
- Respiratory Specialist
- Virologist
Note: Additional education or specialized training is required for many occupations.
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Potential Employers:
- Alberta Environment and Parks
- Alberta Health Services*
- Alberta Hospital Edmonton
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Defence Research and Development Canada, Suffield Research Centre*
- Gilead Alberta ULC*
- Health Canada*
- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer - Université de Montréal*
- National Institute for Nanotechnology*
- STEMCELL Technologies*
- University of Alberta*
*These companies have partnered with our Science Internship Program to offer you working experience during your undergraduate degree.