Postdoc at a research hospital for a physicist (non radiation) I am a physicist with a background in computational physics and imaging, and I received an offer for a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at a very good research hospital on the East Coast. I would join a group of medical doctors working on a particular protein, and I am trying to decide if it would be a good choice career wise. The lab has good instruments, but I am a bit worried of being the only one with a quantitative background in the research group.

Is there anyone who successfully did the physics-medicine transition? And is it possible to go back to more basic science after a biochem-med postdoc? Other things I should consider?
I'll answer the second two questions.


  Is there anyone who successfully did the physics-medicine transition?


Yes, medical physicists exist.  Some are specially trained in that field, others made the transition.  A few years back they were in high demand.


  And is it possible to go back to more basic science after a
  biochem-med postdoc?


Possible, yes.  Probably few people want to because it's likely to lead to a pay cut, as last I heard there was high demand for medical physicists.