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Sandia National Laboratories has been identified in a national poll as one of the top-10 U.S. work places for post-doctoral students in the life sciences.
The lab has traditionally been known as a defense lab supporting research in nuclear weapons.
The survey was conducted by the Philadelphia-based magazine The Scientist, known for its statistical studies and life sciences orientation. The results are published in its March issue, Sandia said in a news release.
"This is deserved recognition of the evolution of the bioscience program at Sandia," says Sandia bioresearcher George Bachand. "We find ourselves in very elite company."
While life-science research appeared sporadically as part of Sandia's early mission work, it was not until the mid-1990s that Sandia made a more concerted entry into life sciences with advances in computational biology, said Sandia corporate historian Rebecca Ullrich.
Research since then has spanned the gamut from water contamination detection to gum disease detection, and from finding antidotes to anthrax to more basic immunization questions involving how proteins move about the body.
Sandia-Albuquerque placed third, behind only the J. David Gladstone Institute (affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco), and the Denver-based National Jewish Hospital, an internationally noted respiratory research center.
Sandia's Livermore, Calif., branch placed 10th, behind Genentech and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston but ahead of the Whitehead and the Novartis institutes for biomedical research, both in Cambridge; Lawrence Livermore and Argonne national laboratories; Emory University, the Mayo Clinic, and others.
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