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 ...
The Biotech Beat Podcast, from the Alumni and Industry Engagement ATE project ( DUE 2202011), delivers fresh episodes each month. Tune into their November 10, 2025 episode where Dalton shares his journey from his BioWork class in high school to his current role at Grifols Therapeutics in Clayton, North Carolina ...
The Biotech Beat Podcast, from the Alumni and Industry Engagement ATE project ( DUE 2202011), delivers fresh episodes each month. Tune in to the August 14, 2025 episode where they hear Darrin, a biotech professional at Conception Biosciences in Berkeley, describe how Jurassic Park and marine biology inspiration started him ...
Listen in to The Antibody Society's December 4, 2025 webinar featuring Dr. Paul Carter as he covers the history of monoclonal technologies from the first hybridomas in 1975 to the more than 200 approved antibody therapeutics that are saving the lives of millions of patients. Note: the audio is a ...
The National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce ( NCBW) of Forsyth Tech and InnovATEBIO National Center for the Biotechnology Education announce the Biosciences Summer Industry Fellows Program Opportunity for Summer 2026. The NCBW/InnovATEBIO Biosciences Industry Fellows Program is a program funded by the NSF ATE division where community college and/or ...
Researchers at the University of Florida found security risks when using portable genetic sequencers made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies--the largest provider in the product space. Oxford quickly rolled out updates to path the vulnerabilities, but devices that did not receive the updates, as well as unsecured internet systems could still ...
It is TIME to submit proposals for HI-TEC 2026. Hi-TEC is an incredible way to meet and exchange ideas with educators, industry professionals, technicians, and interested organizations. This NSF supported event focuses on preparing the workforce (now and in the future) for careers in high-tech fields that drive our nation's ...
Tune in to the November 1, 2025 episode of Biotech Beat where you can hear Eroica talk about her role as a lab assistant at Austin Community College (ACC) and how her interest in graphic design informs her biotechnology work. Growing up, although Eroica was interested in the sciences, particularly ...
Applications are now OPEN for the 2026 Summer Undergraduate Research Program at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design, directed by Nobel laureate David Baker! Spend this summer in Seattle conducting hands-on computational and experimental research. Work alongside world-leading scientists creating new proteins to solve challenges in medicine, technology ...
Its a fact of business. Not every new venture will succeed. And when one fails, people's lives are often damaged, and questions arise. Some say the cheapest lesson is one that you can learn from other's mistakes--and First Bight's report titled "The Industrial Biomanufacturing Graveyard: A study of previous failures ...
CRISPR has been used to help hundreds of people in clinical trials--but KJ, a baby boy with a rare liver disease who received a CRISPR-based treatment, is not just another story of a personalized treatment. Instead of a liver transplant, a procedure with life-long medical consequences even if a donor ...
A recent publication in PLOS One highlighted the work by Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL) scientists and undergraduate co-ops (among others) as they discovered an improved method of preserving DNA during extraction from frozen tissues. DNA sequencing is such a valuable tool for information gathering in the biosciences. Although there have ...
Music has been a powerful tool in education for centuries. Can anyone list all 50 states without the melody that goes with them? Or recite the ABC’s without at least a little of the lilting preschool song coming through? And a student doesn’t need to be young for the music ...
Tune in to the August 1, 2025 episode of Biotech Beat where you can hear Lashanda describe how her career has helped to improve her quality of life as a single parent. Lashanda went back to get her high school diploma at a later point in life. One of her ...
It’s here! The biennial National Workforce Trends Report is out. Produced by Life Sciences Workforce Collaborative in partnership with InnovATEBIO (NSF grant DUE 2349809) and TEConomy Partners LLC. It draws from over 500 company survey responses, 200 executive interviews and 2.9 million job postings and presents four key themes: strategic ...
The subject of this blog is a paper that examines how the Business & Industry Leadership Team (BILT) process helped members of the Information Technology (IT) field develop aligned curriculum. You may wonder why a Biotechnology/Biomanufacturing-focused website is covering what is happening in the IT field. The fields have similarities ...
The proposed National Science Foundation project, Needed Math for a Workforce in Transition (NMWT), is seeking innovative community college faculty. If funded, this project will bring together teams of math and technical program educators with local industry professionals to co-create classroom-ready, real-world instructional materials that integrate mathematics into authentic manufacturing ...
Tune in to the June 3, 2025 episode of the Biotech Beat podcast, where you will get to hear DaMone', an Austin Community College (ACC) alumni, talk about his path to biotech. DaMone works at Emerald Cloud Lab, in Austin Texas where he is a Lab Operator Level 3. DaMone' ...
The Exam Preview Project is an NSF-funded mission to better understand what works for students and instructors in developing excellent, engaging, inclusive exams for college STEM courses. As its first year of research is ending, we are recruiting for instructors in STEM at two-year colleges who might be interested in ...
Tune in to the May 5, 2025 episode of the Biotech Beat podcast, where you will get to hear Natalie Marquez, a first-generation college student and now an Austin Community College (ACC) alumna, talk about her training and developing career in the field of biotechnology. Natalie works at Clinical Pathology ...
