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> There are a fair few jobs doing it, but they are relatively low level, have no "community", no real way to facilitate referrals

I’m only tangentially exposed to the biomedical field but I’m fairly sure this isn’t broadly true. I’m a member of a single cell RNA sequencing slack group whose members host a meetup twice a month. Most members work in wetlabs and many conduct research into the effects of various drugs on cancer.

The groups are probably harder to find (than programming meetups) but I doubt there are none of them.