[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • May 12, 2001
    ``Craig Benham has a problem. As a professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, he trains students in the exploding new field of bioinformatics-the fusion of high-powered computing and biology that is aimed at revolutionizing the health-care industry. But Benham can't keep a postdoctorate researcher for more than a year. They keep leaving for jobs that pay up to $100,000 at bioinformatics start-ups, giant pharmaceutical companies or technology giants like Motorola and IBM that are targeting the rapidly growing life-sciences field. `These companies need a whole new class of biologists who have training in the computational and mathematical methods,' Benham says. `I've got one former student who has been hired four times in three years, increasing his salary 30 percent each time. There's huge demand for these skills.' Benham knows of what he speaks: this summer he will join the University of California, Davis, heading up its new $95 million bioinformatics program.''

    Full story:
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/562891.asp

    I remember Craig Benham when he was ``merely'' a physical biochemist studying DNA denaturation. Everyone and their uncle is a bioinformaticist these days! ;-)

    Reference by Slashdot.org, which just posted something about bioinformatics that was submitted by Tim O'Reilly:
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/12/0111223

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