Welcome to Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network

We provide a world wide social and business network within our community: people in Life Sciences, Biotech, Pharma, medical diagnostics, medical devices, laboratory work, clinical trials and health care research.

Join the group on LinkedIn

then register at our own Forum here

Membership of BioPharmNetwork has passed 100,000. We have made some changes as we passed this milestone, moving all discussion and job posting to our group Forum

We have been getting so many posts that members say they can't have a useful discussion, but we cannot manage the discussions and job posts of 100,000 members with the tools available in LinkedIn. All the discussions and job posts for the Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network will now be in the Forum and our LinkedIn discussion area will close.

In our Forum we have over 40 boards, allowing topics to be organized and many people to help with moderation. We are identifying experts who can make sure that questions are answered within a reasonable time, while different people will be able to moderate different boards. The Forum also supports our services to job hunters.

Unlike on LI, posts and discussions on the Forum are searchable, so if you use good keywords you should get more response. If you have a blog or other news source with a feed, we can carry your feed.

We are not leaving LinkedIn but supplementing it. LinkedIn has great tools for finding people and a message system which allows members to make contact with anyone else in our group. We will make it as easy as possible to move between the two sites. Our News area inside LinkedIn will be only for information about activity on the Forum, major industry events, and major industry news.

For easy access to the Forum, start at

http://www.linkedin.com/newsArticle?viewDiscussion=&articleID=30005902&gid=60035

We are among the really big groups on LinkedIn, so our members can find, and communicate with, many people to whom you will want to connect.

For members thinking of a career change or looking for a job

If you are, or might be job hunting, ask for access to our private job hunter area. We have some advice accumulated there, a board where you can message other job seekers, and an area you can use to connect with a mentor.

For access, register on the Forum then send a Personal Message to Martin. You will get access faster by using a PM.

Mentoring and other advice to members, especially job hunters

We ask mentors to advise a few job hunters who are looking in the field with which the mentor is familiar. Each job hunter probably requires a few phone discussions, suggestions of leads with whom they can network, and some e-mail introductions to networking contacts. Face to face contact would be useful if you are in the same area, but is not required. If you can help as a mentor, please email: martin@biopharmnetwork.org

We continue to welcome and support recruiters.

We need you more than ever before. There are six boards to divide jobs geographically. Like our other boards they are searchable. You can post as soon as you have logged in. When we see you have posted, we will give you full recruiter access.

Start at http://recruiter.biopharmnetwork.org

We know changes can be disruptive, and appreciate your patience. We are building a significant resource for Life Science people.

Email any questions or comments, and report broken links please, to moderator@biopharmnetwork.org .

Our group is a Network, and we want you, the Members, to benefit from your connection: what goes around comes around, so please plan to support another member from time to time.