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InnovATEBIO Seeks Bioscience Industry Leaders and Trendsetters to Attend First Ever #EnvisioningBioscience Summit

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Anonymous

Washington, DC (May 24, 2023) - InnovATE BIO National Center for Biotechnology Education (InnovATEBIO) is gearing up to host career education leaders, industry innovators, state teams, and government experts from around the nation at the first-ever #EnvisioningBioscience summit. Envisioning the Next Bioscience Workforce Summit on Industry Trends and Needs will connect stakeholders to biotechnology trendsetters, explore the latest technologies, and provide the opportunity to collaborate on training that will grow the nation’s growing biotechnology workforce. The summit, to be held Monday, June 26, is open to bioscience... Read more

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Great Bay Community College grads are making COVID-19 vaccines

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Sandra Porter
GBCC student Photo credit: GBCC

This article was written and contributed by Lisa Proulx , Public Information Officer, Great Bay Community College

The Life Sciences Department of Great Bay Community College offers programs in three specialized areas in Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences. Information is available at https://www.greatbay.edu/life-sciences/ Great Bay Community College is part of the Community College System of New Hampshire, a public system of higher education consisting of seven colleges in Berlin, Claremont, Laconia, Concord, Manchester, Nashua, and Portsmouth.

Graduates of Great Bay Community College are working in the research labs where vaccines for Covid-19... Read more

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Connecting with industry through the ABRF

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Sandra Porter
DNA sequencer at Washington University Genome Institute

A perennial question among college biotech programs is "how do I make connections with industry?" Every biotech program needs industry connections for finding internships, industry members to serve on their advisory boards, and people from companies to talk to students and give presentations in class. Over time, the program's alumni can form the industry connection, but for the first five years, making these connections can be challenging.

The annual ABRF conference is particularly well-suited to helping biotech program faculty connect with their industry counterparts. ABRF stands for the Association of Biomedical Research Facilities. These are also known as core... Read more

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NSF Distinguished Bioeconomy Lecture Series

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Linnea Fletcher

NSF invests in fundamental research to support biotechnology and advance the U.S. bioeconomy across the sciences and engineering.

Presented by NSF's Bioeconomy Coordinating Committee and NSF Directorates, this distinguished lecture series will bring in individual speakers and panels representing the science and technology funded by a Directorate every month. Speakers will present on research and broader impacts in areas associated with biotechnology and the bioeconomy that are of interest broadly across the foundation.

All sessions will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern. Individual lectures will run until 12 noon, including question and answer, and panel sessions will... Read more

Vacaville Commits to Biomanufacturing and Solano College

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Sandra Porter
Jim DeKloe at Solano College

A newly formed partnership between the City of Vacaville and Solano College has led to creating the California Biomanufacturing Center, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the growth of the biomanufacturing in Vacaville.

The city of Vacaville expects biomanufacturing companies to add at least 10,000 jobs with a payroll of more than $1 billion a year. Graduates from Solano College will be ready to apply!

This partnership will allow the biomanufacturing program at Solano College to expand, with future graduating classes having as many as 60 students per year.

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