These skills standards were assembled by Bio-Link, and created by a consortium of community colleges, led by the National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce at Forsyth Technical Community College. The consortium worked to identify skill standards in biomanufacturing, medical devices, biotechnology laboratory skills, and skills shared by all of these domains.
For nearly 30 years, the biotechnology community has invested enormous effort in defining the skills technicians need to succeed. The result is a rich but unwieldy body of work—hundreds of pages of skill standards, largely locked in PDFs that are difficult to search, compare, or reuse. What does AI see in these data?
The report describes a strategy that colleges can use to respond to the workforce needs of immunotherapy employers without creating a new career education program. The report contains: • A case study from the University of Washington Bothell. • A summary of the concepts and techniques taught in foundational science courses that are most relevant to the background knowledge and skills that immunotherapy technicians need in order to succeed in the workplace. • An outline for a short course (Applied Immunotherapy) that focuses on the technical and professional skills required for employment in
Join us to learn about strategies for helping students recognize, understand, and minimize variability while mastering fundamental biotech lab techniques. We’ll discuss practices for improving reproducibility as we introduce an open-access biotech lab manual from Dr.'s Lisa Seidman, Cynthia Moore, and Jeanette Mowery. Download the free lab manual at basicbiotechmethods.com. Speakers: Lisa Seidman, PhD, Emeritus Faculty, Madison Area Technical College Cynthia Moore, PhD, Emeritus Faculty, Illinois State University Jeanette Mowery, PhD, Emeritus Faculty, Madison Area Technical College About the ...
The field of bioprocess manufacturing is growing rapidly, and there simply aren't enough skilled technicians to fill entry-level positions. Community colleges are well-positioned to help students be ready for these positions, but it is crucially important the skills taught fit the needs of the evolving industry. Central Carolina Community College's ...
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.
Little research currently exists at the national, state or regional level on the cell and immunotherapy technician workforce and the demand for these workers in this fast growing industry. Gathering labor market Information to assess and forecast the future workforce needs of the organizations who are developing and manufacturing these emerging technologies is a key deliverable of Shoreline Community College’s Immunotherapy BioHub. To accomplish this, an extensive literature review was conducted to identify and review economic and workforce articles and reports on the growing cell and
Contributed by Chander Aurora, PhD and Parvenah Mohammadian PhD, and presented at HI TEC 2022 Background The best science training programs are those that have a strong connection to industry. Also, programs that provide training developed with local employers’ needs and input are effective in raising participants’ wages and improving ...
Reducing variability/increasing reproducibility is essential in biotechnology, whether one’s job is producing a biopharmaceutical product, performing research, testing samples, or any other function. At Madison Area Technical College, we teach a course in basic laboratory skills to individuals who already possess at least a BS degree in a biological science; many of the participants have advanced degrees and/or industry experience. In working with these students, we have explored how variability stealthily arises in the most basic – and often thought to be simple – procedures. In this webinar ...
The document addresses the question: “how do the knowledge and skills required for an entry-level technician to excel in cell and gene therapy differ from those required in ‘traditional biomanufacturing’?” Funded by: National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (70NANB17H002).
Russ Read presents data on the growing need for technicians in cell and gene therapy. This work was funded by a grant from NIIMBL through the Workforce Expansion in Biomanufacturing Emerging Technologies (WEBET) project A labor market analysis, produced through the WEBET project, can be downloaded ...
Barbara Juncosa, James DeKloe, Margaret Bryans talk about how to teach the concepts and hands-on skills needed for preparing students to work in Cell and Gene Therapy. This work was funded by NIIMBL through the Workforce Expansion in Biomanufacturing Emerging Technologies (WEBET) project
What kinds of skills do entry level employees need in the new fields of regenerative medicine and regenerative medicine biomanufacturing? InnovATE BIO team members Russ Read and Thomas Tubon, and InnovATEBIO program leader Sengyong Lee, tackled this question in a new article with co-authors Gary Green, Joshua Hunsberger, and Anthony ...
This report outlines the knowledge, skills, and abilities that are needed for entry-level employment in the regenerative medicine workforce, presents a gap analysis between the skills that entry level employees have and the skills their employers need, and makes recommendations for acting on these findings. Entry-level skills for working in regenerative medicine biomanufacturing are discussed as well. Reference: Green GM, Read RH, Lee S, Tubon T, Hunsberger JG, Atala A. Recommendations for workforce development in regenerative medicine biomanufacturing. Stem Cells Transl Med. 2021 Jun 24. doi
This session described a three-part strategy for identifying which kinds of knowledge and skills that you might need to learn and how you might going about learning these. We discussed online tools like Biotech-Careers.org, Bio-Link related resources such as Making the Call - an interactive movie ...
Presenters: Linda Rehfuss, Jeanette Mowery, Lisa Seidman, Elaine Johnson, Linnea Fletcher In 2016, the Community College Consortium for Bioscience Credentials, funded by a Department of Labor grant, published a set of core technical skills and competencies that are held in common across the ...
This report identifies a set of core technical competencies and skills that are shared across the Bioscience Lab, Biomanufacturing, and Medical Device domains of the bioscience industry. This work was funded from the Department of Labor (DOL) Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training grant (TAACCCT) (#TC-23761-12-60-A-37). Russ Read, from Forsyth Technical Community College in North Carolina, led the consortuim of 12 colleges that participated in this project. For questions and suggestions about the Skill Standards, please contact any of the Core team members below: Dr
