View the event photos.. This summit will draw together thought and opinion leaders to consider how to develop a workforce that will maintain US leadership in all phases of bioscience endeavor. Vision speakers will forecast the near future of biopharmaceuticals, biomedical devices, bioprocessing, bioengineering, synthetic biology, food production, and workforce education. State team discussions on the second day will then explore how academia, industry, and government can work together to develop the human resources needed to capitalize on these emerging technologies over the next five years ...
Maybe you have a biotech field you want to find out more about, or maybe you're sure you read something written by a favorite scientist but you don't remember where on the site you saw it? Now finding what you need is easier than ever! Type your search term into ...
Presented by Todd Smith, PhD. This video discusses my experience as an "ambitious site builder" migrating InnovATEBIO.org from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10. I highlight the challenges of this process, including dealing with large numbers of users, old content, and complex data structures, especially with a ...
InnovATEBIO is the National Science Foundation-funded National Biotechnology Education Center dedicated to strengthening the biotechnology technician workforce through a collaborative network of community colleges, K-12 schools, and industry partners. The 2019-2024 and 2024-2025 evaluation reports summarize the Center’s impact in four areas: Workforce Data & Industry Alignment: InnovATEBIO provides up-to-date labor market information through the biennial National Life Science Workforce Trends Report and maintains specialized Hubs that develop industry-vetted curricula in areas like
This presentation was given at HI TEC 2025 in Minneapolis. Before the talk, we polled HI TEC attendees (n=29) to identify their favorite topics for hackathon teams to address. The top four topics were using AI, partnering with High Schools, student recruiting, and teaching automation. Sign up to ...
Connect, collaborate, innovate. Those are the three words on the website for the Advanced Technological Education--Principal Investigator meeting ( ATE-PI) I just had the privilege of attending. The weather was amazingly hot in Washington DC from October 23-25th but the amazing accomplishments could be found inside the Omni Hotel. The ...
We are pleased to announce the start of InnovATEBIO 2.0: The National Biotechnology Education Center at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. Join us to learn about the goals, objectives, and activities planned for the next five years. This is YOUR Center! Come prepared with questions for our leadership team as they discuss their roles in helping the Biotechnology community create an educated workforce and sustain 2-year biotechnology programs. Date & Time: Thursday, Sept. 26th, 2:00pm - 3:30 pm Eastern (1:00 pm Central, 11:00 am Pacific) Register today!
This meeting has been canceled and will be rescheduled in the new year. Did you know that students use your InnovATEBIO program pages when they decide where to attend college? You can make your page more appealing to students, and possibly improve recruiting, by updating the information on your page. We are happy to help. In this community conversation, we will discuss: what information do adult students and high school students want to see on a program page, and how does this differ? Share examples of program pages that led to student recruitment and some of the popular key words that we see ...
Chemical and Engineering News is not a journal I read very often, but a recent article titled “Help wanted in biomanufacturing” definitely caught my eye. Successes within the R&D and business fronts of life sciences companies have pushed technologies to commercial-scale production facilities. But there aren’t enough technicians to operate ...
Dear Biotechnology Community and Bio-Linkers, We write to you today to introduce you to InnovATE BIO , the new National Science Foundation-funded Advanced Technological Education Center in Biotechnology . This new center will continue the work of the first national center, Bio-Link, which established much of the communication infrastructure and ...
