My friend is in biochemistry and he just did two co-op terms.

The first term, he applied to a lab at an University in another country. There, he did biochem research. I didn’t really think something like that counted, but it did for him.

Now he is co-oping at a pharmaceutica firm.

Another friend is doing his masters in biochem and they have a co-op option there too. He is working in a hosptial doing research.

I have another friend that did her co-op at the government forensics lab.

Look for things in the biotechnology sector. This can be at companies, government or private.

Also look into bioinformatics, working in areas such as drug design, the synthesis of new biomaterials, the mapping of brain function and genomic research.