Medical Applications Scientist

Career Area: Planning and Analysis

Occupation Group: Health and Medical Research

Salary

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A typical Medical Applications Scientist earns the following wages (national and state):

State

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National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $92,606

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Performs scientific research with the aim of discovering new solutions or improving existing ones within the field of ' '. Plans and conducts laboratory experiments, evaluates the results, develops new experiments, performs routine testing procedures, and summarizes findings in reports.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Medical Applications Scientist is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Research: Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue
• Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting or dpanneuring is a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Molecular Biology: Working experience of Molecular Biology. Molecular biology is a branch of biochemistry which concerns the molecular basis of biological activity between biomolecules in the various systems of a cell, including the interactions between DNA, RNA, and proteins and their biosynthesis, as well as the regulation of these interactions.
• Data Analysis: Data analysis, also known as analysis of data or data analytics, is a process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision-making.
• Description and Demonstration of Products: Working experience of the Description and Demonstration of Products, which is a promotion where a product is demonstrated to potential customers. The goal of such a demonstration is to introduce customers to the product in hopes of getting them to purchase that item.
• Biochemistry: Biochemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.
• Product Development: In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Medical Applications Scientist that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Immunohistochemistry: Working experience of Immunohistochemistry, which involves the process of selectively imaging antigens (proteins) in cells of a tissue section by exploiting the principle of antibodies binding specifically to antigens in biological tissues
• Metabolomics: Metabolomics is the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites.
• Protein Expression: Working experience of Protein Expression, which refers to the way in which proteins are synthesized, modified and regulated in living organisms. In protein research, the term can apply to either the object of study or the laboratory techniques required to manufacture proteins.
• Assay Development: One of the first steps in drug development and toxicity testing is creating test systems (assays) on which to evaluate the effects of chemical compounds on cellular, molecular or biochemical processes of interest.
• Bioinformatics Analysis: Working experience of Bioinformatics Analysis. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines Computer Science, Biology, Mathematics, and Engineering to analyze and interpret biological data.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Cell Cycle: The cell cycle or cell-division cycle is the series of events that take place in a cell leading to its division and duplication of its DNA (DNA replication) to produce two daughter cells.
• Gene Therapy: Gene therapy is the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acid polymers into a patient's cells as a drug to treat disease.
• Biotechnology Industry Knowledge: Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products.
• Metabolomics: Metabolomics is the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites.
• Bioinformatics Analysis: Working experience of Bioinformatics Analysis. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines Computer Science, Biology, Mathematics, and Engineering to analyze and interpret biological data.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Field Application Scientist
• Application Scientist
• Field Application Scientist Acd
• Clinical Staff Field Application Scientist Remote
• Clinical Field Application Scientist