The opening up of global economy and the growth of pharmaceutical industry has led to the surprising improvement in the job market. It is estimated that more than 50,000 jobs will be created by 2010 and 10,000 candidates will be required per year.

In addition to the masters programs and PhD, there is a tremendous scope for the post-doctoral research in this discipline of Bio Technology. With global players focusing much on this Medical biotechnology, the requirement of skilled medical researchers will be high in the years to come. You can find employment with pharmacy companies, hospitals and hi-tech diagnostic centers that require technological knowledge and expertise in handling the equipments.

The areas such as Gene therapy and gene intervention, cell and tissue engineering, the use of stem cells for curative purposes, use of Bio-sensors for diagnosis purposes, development of non-invasive imaging are the thrust areas in the future and the main opportunities in Medical Biotechnology will lie in these areas only.

Apart from this plant Biotechnology is also gaining momentum. India being an agricultural country needs lot of qualified personnel in this field.The field of plant biotechnology has universal implications as it is being used to tackle the problems before mankind. These include adverse impact of global warming upon agriculture, improving crop quality through genetic engineering, removing pesticides residues from soil, development of bio-pesticides, plastic-eating and oil-controlling bacteria and so on.The future of Agricultural Biotechnology is very promising as large amount of money is pumped in this area. Also, as the big companies like Reliance, ITC are taking much initiatives to commercialize Bio-tech products, the future for this field of study will have a tremendous scope. This also implies greater career opportunities and availability of jobs in Biotechnology. With so many interesting researches that are emerging in Agriculture related Biotechnology, the research opportunities are attracting that many student aspirants towards Agricultural Biotechnology.

Another option for you is to go for Industrial Biotechnology. Although huge number of jobs is available in India for these graduates, lots of students are showing interest to become entrepreneurs. This is because of the reason that industrial Biotechnology is having vast application in the food processing industry. Anything from Fruit Jam till sandalwood oil can be produced and preserved with the different preservative methods. As it requires very little man power and limited use of technology, entrepreneurship is being opted among these graduates, largely.

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