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Those looking for Raleigh jobs in the biotechnology industry should have some great employment options.

"State Bioscience Initiatives 2010," a new report from the Biotechnology Industry Organization and Battelle Memorial Institute ranked North Carolina seventh in the nation for total bioscience occupational employment with 23,630 workers in the industry.

California led the nation in bioscience employment, followed by Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Florida. The study looked at how states and regions are faring in their efforts to attract companies and jobs in the bioscience industries.

The Durham-Chapel Hill area ranked first among mid-sized markets for jobs in two employment concentrations in the life sciences industry. The area employed 8,270 workers in its research, testing and medical laboratories sector, and 6,755 workers in its drugs and pharmaceuticals sector.

Among all large-sized markets, the Raleigh-Cary area ranked fourth for the number of drugs and pharmaceuticals jobs with 3,331 employees, and ranked 11th for research, testing and medical laboratories jobs with 3,718 employees.

The Raleigh and Durham areas together accounted for 10,816 of the 18,789 drug and pharmaceutical jobs in North Carolina during 2008, and 12,988 research-and-testing company jobs that same year.

Part of the reason for North Carolina's success in the biotech industry is that between 2004 and 2009 the state received $6.49 billion from the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research centers and 2,308 bioscience-related patents.

In addition, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration conducted 579 clinical trials for the 10 largest disease categories in North Carolina during 2009.

Throughout the nation as a whole, the biotech industry continued to add jobs throughout 2008, despite the economic recession. Employment in the industry reached 1.42 workers during 2008, which is an increase of 19,000 jobs from the previous year.

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