Exciting news from Texas! The San Jacinto College Center for Biotechnology is partnering with CellReady (a privately held cell therapy contract development and manufacturing organization) to launch a 4-week program designed to provide readiness training for new hires in biomanufacturing. In just 160 hours the trainees will get both theoretical ...
Ever wonder how Taq polymerase is made--the enzyme that is found in so many labs and is so integral to teaching biotech and biomanufacturing labs? Or maybe you wonder if you could make it yourself, maybe save on costs? A recent student research paper titled "Manufacturing and Formulation Development of ...
In this episode of the Biotech Beat podcast you’ll meet Bev, a community college alum who has built a successful career in the biotechnology industry. Bev works at Novo Nordisk in Clayton, North Carolina. Bev considered various career options--she knew a good one would take some college experience so while ...
Sihem Nadour, a student at Montgomery County Community College, was featured in a recent article by Eric Devlin highlighting her recent publication in JATE and her poster presentation at the ATE PI conference in October 2024. Article and photos by Eric Devlin: When Sihem Nadour made the trip to the ...
Two papers from the Department of Biotechnology, Montgomery County Community College have been published in the Journal of Technological Education (JATE). The first examines the stability of NISTCHO cell lines when they are stored at -80°C. The NISTCHO cell line is a recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cell line that was ...
The 11th edition of the BIO/TEConomy report has come out from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and the Council of State Bioscience Associations (CSBA). The report covers national and state-level data detailing the U. S. bioscience industry's economic performance in 2023, along with its impacts and geographic footprint. I had ...
The Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) is led by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF). It is a national competition where community college student teams, working with a faculty or administrator mentor, use science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to innovate ...
The Army Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU-MI) Student Program for Army Research and Knowledge (SPARK) program allows U.S. graduate and undergraduate students in STEM fields to conduct research at an Army facility. During the summer of 2025, students will engage in Army mission-related research projects, including ...
Nick Vaquera is a City College of San Francisco (CCSF) alum, working at Eikon Therapeutics Theraputics in Drug Discovery. When asked, he says that he sees entry level lab research assistants making $65K to $70K with hardly any experience. Nick has also seen salaries in the drug discovery lab field ...
The October 2025 episode of Biotech Beat features Colby, an Austin Community College Field Application Scientist. Colby takes you on his journey to becoming a Field Application Scientist at Singular Genomics! From his early fascination with science and the transformative impact of community college to his varied roles in the ...
Another exciting article from The Journal of Advanced Technological Education (J ATE) Volume 3: Issue 2. Authors Cubit, Rojas, Kulikowski, Martinez, and Prabhakar ( Frederick Community College) discuss a synthetic glucocorticoid, budesonide and its potential as an anti-inflammatory for treatment of a number of illnesses. Inflammation has been shown to ...
Interested in alternative ways to make protein? The National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce (NCBW) of Forsyth Technical Community College and the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein at NC State announce the Biosciences Summer Industry Fellows Program Opportunity for Summer 2025. The NCBW Biosciences Industry Fellows Program is a program ...
Science Ambassador Fellows attend an in-person summer course and virtually collaborate with CDC for one year while teaching. Fellows learn from CDC experts, design and practice using STEM lesson plans, and network. The fellowship application period is open November 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025 The CDC Science Ambassador Fellowship ...
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 ...
The Community College Summer Enrichment Internship (CCSEP) program is an opportunity for college students or recent college graduates to perform a summer research internship in the Intramural Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This program is for community college students interested in exploring careers in research and healthcare ...
Santa Monica College is looking for part time faculty. Some of the details are below. For more details, go to https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/smcacademic/jobs/4681367/pt-faculty-… Salary $98,584.50 - $242,781.00 Annually Location CA 90405, CA Job Type Part Time Faculty Job Number 00304 Department Life Science Opening Date 10/03/2024 Description Job Duties Deliver laboratory experiments ...
The Journal of Advanced Technological Education (J ATE) Volume 3: Issue 2 is full of great papers, with new ideas and tools that you might be able to use in your own program! Two particularly interesting tools for biotech programs are described in Predicting Neoantigens for Cancer Using Next-Generation IEDB ...
Skylar Thomas works at Grifols Therapeutics in North Carolina as a Training Administrator. She also teaches the BioWork certificate program at a local high school—her industry experience helps give her words authenticity which is so valuable when discussing a career path with a group of young people. Skylar had a ...
Recruitment, retention, employment---all really important parts of a biotech programs success. How can they be improved--what--or WHO--can help? This is a question every program asks as they work to change lives. One promising avenue to improvement is engaging alumni. Take a look at how three InnovATEBIO programs are engaging their ...
