Bolstering the Workforce Pipeline: Early Career Awareness in the Life Sciences

Life Sciences Workforce Collaborative (LSWC) invites you to its second Best Workforce Strategies Roundtable on April 24, bringing together industry association and workforce leaders to explore how the U.S. can build a stronger early career pipeline for the life sciences. 

The discussion will feature: 

• Ying-Tsu Loh, Executive Director, BABEC: Bay Area Bioscience Education Community 
• Angie McMurry, Director of Industry Engagement and Workforce Development, Ohio Life Sciences 
• Shelly Ridder, Community Engagement and Workforce Development Manager, Oregon Life Sciences 
• Ann Vogel, Senior Vice President, iBIO Institute 

Moderated by Maria Thacker-Goethe, Co-Founder & Board Secretary, LSWC; President & CEO, Georgia Life Sciences 

As the U.S. life sciences industry accelerates its growth, most students have little to no exposure to biotechnology until college—if at all. Community college programs, essential for training in-demand technicians, face persistent enrollment challenges due to limited upstream awareness and few high school pathways into the field. This Roundtable will spotlight innovative efforts to close these gaps—from early student engagement initiatives to programs equipping high school educators to teach biotechnology—and explore scalable career pathways that will ensure a skilled, future-ready workforce to sustain innovation in the life sciences sector. 

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