Research Veterinarian
Many veterinarians use their experience and education to conduct research at laboratories for private corporations, universities and colleges, and governmental agencies. By working as researchers, veterinarians have helped control malaria and yellow fever, solved botulism, and produced an anticoagulant to treat some people who have heart disease. Research veterinarians help both animals and people.
Some work for pharmaceutical and biomedical research firms. They develop, test, and supervise the production of drugs for human and animal use. To become a research veterinarian you will need to specialize in pharmacology, virology, bacteriology, pathology, or laboratory animal medicine.
It was a veterinarian who discovered the link between the fatal West Nile virus found in some animals and humans. Dr. Tracey McNamara, a veterinarian at the New York Zoological Society in the Bronx, New York, was the first person to determine that zoo animals and wild birds were dying from the same disease that was harming people in New York.
