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Biologists at the NIH are in the forefront of important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives, investigating ways to prevent disease as well as finding the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.  NIH offers opportunities for biologists in nearly all specialty areas to conduct biomedical research that meets the agency’s mission and reflects a national need. NIH programs also provide postdoctoral individuals and new independent researchers the opportunity to establish their research careers.  Biology positions are professional scientific work requiring analytical skill, judgment, and personal accountability and responsibility for creating, developing, integrating, applying, and sharing an organized body of knowledge acquired through extensive education or training at a recognized college or university;
equivalent to the curriculum requirements for a bachelor's or higher degree with major study in or pertinent to the specialized field; and continuously studied to explore, extend, and use additional discoveries, interpretations, and applications to improve data quality, materials, equipment, applications, and methods.

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