I,
can´t resist answering,

unlike you, I'm a Clinical Pathologist and would like to be more near
of hard science.
I believe, because of my experience as a doctor, as a scientist, as
responsible for medical labs, that your experience in Computation plus
your habilities with the scientific method, would prove very valuable
inside a biochemistry/clinical chemistry environment. For that to be
accomplished, you must be willing to get back a few degrees and study
hard what you don't know, but, has I said, you have great
potentialities. Your way is from bottom, but I urge you not no give up
because your profile can be very useful.