Part of InnovATEBIO’s Biotech Careers and Entrepreneurship Hub mission is helping community college biotech leaders integrate practical business concepts into program planning and development. One of the most common challenges we hear is student recruitment. At the same time, there is a broad need to increase awareness of biotechnology as ...
Did you know that Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) are required in both the biotechnology and food industries? GMPs are a set of recommendations established by the FDA to increase the safety of food and drugs. Following GMPs decreases the risk of people being poisoned by contaminated food or medicines. When ...
In Talk 1: Dr. Gary Green discussed their grant program aimed at increasing knowledge and application of regenerative medicine among K-12, community college, and HBCU faculty. The program included faculty development activities and the development of an educational ecosystem for regenerative ...
The first talk will address educating technicians for the emerging field of regenerative medicine. The second talk will be on the new skills database at Biotech-Careers.org and a game for teaching about careers, business concepts, and GLPs, and GMPs.
At long last, Biotechopoly™: Antibody Edition is available from The Game Crafter. We are using a print-on-demand format to make the game available for the cost of materials and printing. Plan ahead. It will take about three weeks for the game to be printed and shipped. You may have seen ...
Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2023 series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. Our speakers this week will talk about their experiences with developing curricula and educating both teachers and students in CRISPR technologies and Biotech-Careers.org, a resource for helping ...
The 2023 ABRF Annual Meeting, Driving Collaborative Science, May 7-10, 2023, in Boston, MA, will bring together scientific leaders to commemorate past, present, and future impacts of science on our lives as we band together to make a collective difference in this increasingly global society. The meeting will be on site and virtual. For more information visit ABRF's meeting site. Wednesday, May 10 will feature a mix of panel discussions and networking opportunities for community college students to learn more about how to prepare for these career options. They will meet core professionals and ...
Description: Did you know that universities and research institutions are major biotechnology employers? And, did you know that shared research resource facilities (core labs) support modern research in these institutions and need an advanced technical workforce with the kinds of skills we teach our ...
Description: Biotechnology employers offer well-paying, interesting jobs, that provide their employees with opportunities to make meaningful contributions to others lives and well-being. We built the Biotech-Careers.org website to show the world that students from biotechnology education programs at ...
Welcome to the first talk in the InnovATE BIO 2022 series of virtual ATE project talks. Leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US will be sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. In these first two talks, we'll learn about an industry-validated credential for biotechnicians (BACE) offered through Biotility and a popular web resource ( Biotech-Careers.org) for ...
We are living in the century of biology. Vaccines are winning the pandemic battle, the biotech industry is rapidly growing, and biotechnology, synthetic biology, and genomics are top priorities for government investment. Biology is the future, and the future is here. Your students may know that new biomedical technologies can treat once incurable diseases. But do they know that biotechnology products are being used in tennis shoes, fabric dyes, and food, and that biotechnology is beginning to play a major role in addressing climate change, pollution, and food security? Our data show that when ...
Laurie Issel-Tarver from Ohlone College sent me a link to this new AgBiotech curriculum resource from the FDA. This was jointly developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA). It's called " Science and the Food Supply" - Exploring Food Agriculture and Biotechnology ...
This video is about finding links to employer job pages Biotech-Careers.org. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under DUE 1800909
The NIH will host the 2020 Virtual Community College Day on Tuesday, November 24, 2020! The goal of the annual Community College Day is to provide community college students and faculty an opportunity to learn about careers in the areas of biomedical sciences and health. This year’s virtual program will include career panels, virtual networking, a newly added panel on “Preparing for the 4-year College/University Experience, and the popular session on the NIH Community College Summer Enrichment Program/Alumni panel. Register now for this fantastic event!
Thank your for interest in our ATE PI conference spotlight presentation! We will post a link to the recorded presentation as soon at it is available. In the meantime, feel free to skim through the slides and check out some of the materials we linked below. Visit the Collaborative to Strengthen Work ...
We recently presented a webinar on exploring biotech careers and how to use Biotech-Careers.org for investigating how companies are fighting COVID-19. This purpose of this blog is to gather some of those topics in a single place together with the career exploration handouts from Dr. Karen Leung, City College of ...
This informal webinar will address two main topics:
What are biotech companies doing to combat COVID-19?
How can we have students explore biotech career opportunities in these crazy times?
This session will address an online website and database that students can use to explore biotech careers. The main tool we will use is Biotech-Careers.org, a career site and biotech company database developed by Digital World Biology, with funding from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technology Education (ATE) program (DUE 1764225).
Dr. Sandra Porter, InnovATE BIO, Digital World Biology ...
