League For Innovation Conference

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League For Innovation Conference
Atlanta, GA March 20th,2006
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• Our Objectives
• Presenters will give a quick A,B,C, overview of
  what each Center of Expertise is in the National
  Center for the Biotechnology Workforce and the
  focus of effort to date

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• Rational
• Capture best practices in the development of
  skill standards, certification and curriculum in
  regionally specialized biotech training centers
• Disseminate make available replicable models to
  community colleges across America
• Composition
• Team 5 centers of Excellence/Expertise
  regionally based with niche mandates
• Collective purpose a national resource

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Progress Future Aims

• Dissemination national regional presentations,
  web site, subject matter experts for webinars
• Resources applicable curriculum, standards are
  available through each site
• Partnership models collaboration between
  education, community and workforce providers are
  available on a site by site basis

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What is Biotechnology?

• Commercialization of natural processes.
• Some examples are
• Diagnosis and treatment of diseases
• Enzymes for cleaning contact lenses
• Cleaning up of toxic waste sites and oil spills
• Wine, beer and yogurt production
• Human identification for forensic purposes

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Biotechnologys Potential
Vast and Imaginative

• Food agriculture
• Medicine
• Environment
• Information
• Other

Photograph bySteve Brown Carl A. Sharif - NYT
Pictures
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Biotechnology Industry Characteristics

• Small
• Highly Regulated
• Young and Still Developing

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US Biotechnology Industry

• Companies Sales (B) Employees
• United States 1,466 30 194,600

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Employment Projections to 2012

• Industry
• Scientific research, development technical
  services 70
• Pharmaceutical medical manufacturing 23
• Occupations
• Life, physical social scientists 17
• Biological scientists 19
• Biological technicians 19

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Biotechnology Occupational Characteristics

• Specialized Skills
• High Level of Education
• Higher Wages

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Diverse Training Needs

• Similar type of Biotech job positions exist
  across the country
• There are emerging biotechnology specializations
• Examples
• research development, bioprocessing/biomanufa
  cturing,and bioinformatics

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Long Short-Term Solutions

• Community Colleges Hold the Key

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Demand-Driven Process
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AgriculturalBioprocess Workforce Training

• Janet Paulson
• Project Coordinator
• Iowa BioDevelopment, IHCC
• jpaulson_at_indianhills.edu
• 1-800-726-2585

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A Center of Expertise

• Industry Partners
• Products
• Training Assistance
• IBTC
• Technical Assistance
• Pilot Facility
• Outreach
• Public
• Educational

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Eddyville, Iowa Complex Industry
Partners

• Cargill, Inc.
• Ajinomoto Food Ingredients, LLC
• Ajinomoto Heartland, LLC
• Wacker Chemical Corp.
• Pioneer Hi-Bred International
• Integrated DNA Technologies
• Kemin Industries

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Training Iowa Bioprocess Training Center

• Training Programs, A.S.
• Bioprocess Tech
• Ethanol Tech
• Workforce Development
• Technical training
• Online, custom, etc
• Process Control Certificate

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Technical Assistance- Industry

• Pilot Facility
• Student Training/Job Opportunities
• Research activities for industry
• Industrial scale-up

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Outreach - Educational Public

• Educational
• -School visits (gt5000 students reached)
  -Professional development
• (gt130 teachers) 7-12th grade biotech
  activities
• -SEMI Project Mobile Lab
• Public
• 3-D virtual reality fermentation
• -Biotech presentations workshops
• Fairs, conferences community
• programs

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Bioprocessing Training

• Ric Matthews
• MiraCosta College
• rmatthews_at_miracosta.edu

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Background Information

• San Diego County
• Twice the size of Rhode Island
• 3.3 million people (3x RI)
• Home to gt500 Biotech companies
• Bioprocessing new venture
• 5 CC Districts (10 campuses)

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Background Information

• MiraCosta College
• Northwest corner of SD County
• 14 year history of RD education
• Bioprocessing added 2004-05 after two years of
  planning

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Finding Skilled Workers

• Recruiting from other companies
• How long will they stay with you
• No anchors
• Recruiting from other countries
• Retraining those with Transferable Skills
• Growing your own

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MiraCostas Program

• Outside the regular college program
• 225 hours of lecture/lab instruction designed to
  bridge skill gap
• On the Job Training 240 hrs.

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Developing a College Bioprocessing Program

• To be discussed
• Need and timeline
• College Environment for
• Curriculum and programs
• Faculty hiring
• Facilities remodeling

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Building a Bioprocessing Program

• Elements
• Specialized Curriculum (with Industry)
• Specialized Faculty
• Specialized Facilities
• Outreach and recruitment

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Career and Education Ladder
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Partnerships are Essential
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Life Sciences Informatics Training

• Patricia Dombrowski
• Director Life Sciences Informatics
• pdombrow_at_bcc.ctc.edu

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LIFE SCIENCE INFORMATICS

• Regional National Focus Groups
• Explore Emerging Job Descriptions
• Develop Skill Standards
• Industry Validation
• Expand Medical Informatics Curriculum
• Bridge to Bioinformatics
• Develop Bioinformatics Curriculum
• Create Faculty Support Resource
• Disseminate Nationally

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Digitalization of Biology Medicine

• The impact of genomic discovery and invention is
  now surfacing noticeably in patient care

Founder, Institute for Systems Biology
Amgen
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FREE DOWNLOADABLE

• Healthcare Informatics Curriculum Guide
• Rapid Skills Standards Development Model for IT
  Industries
• Life Sciences Skill Standards
• Bioinformatics
• Life Sciences Software Validation
• Clinical Trials Data Management

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NEXT UP Informatics Visualization
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ForsythTechBiotechnology ProgramResearch and
Development

• Dr. Lucas. D. Shallua (VMD, PhD)
• 2100 Silas Creek Parkway
• Winston Salem, NC
• Department Chair

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BioTech in NC 

• The Need (2004 Estimates)
• 140 Companies State-wide, 30 in the Triad
• 17,000 Employees
• Industry Growth 10-15 annually
• In year 2022, about 125,000 North Carolinians
  will work in Biotechnology

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Program Goals

• Prepare graduates who are highly skilled-
• Research and Development (Major Emphasis)
• Biomanufacturing/Bioprocess (Minor Industries).

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Biotech Program FACTS
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• Approved in 2003 by NCCCS
• 4 Expert Faculty Lab Tech
• 140 Students
• Strong Advisory Board
• Custom Facility 17,000 sq.ft facility with 4
  dedicated labs.
• Articulations
• 1Plus,
• 2 Plus
• Dual Enrollment High School

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Research Competencies
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• Nucleic Acid-DNA Technology
• Cell and Tissue Technology
• Biomolecular Separations
• Industrial Processes
• Research Lab Animal Handling

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• Lab Safety
• Aseptic
• cGMP
• SOP

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Partners Feedback

• Competent (Hard and Soft skills)
• Easily Trainable
• Very hands-on
• Mature and Reliable

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Partners

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Biomanufacturing Training

• Sonia Wallman, Ph.D.
• Director of NHCTC's Biotech program and
• of the Northeast Region of Bio-Link
• swallman_at_nhctc.edu

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• Develop Skill Standards
• Develop with Northeast Biomanufacturing
  Collaborative
• with NSF ATE project grant downloadable on-line
  at www.biotechworkforce.org
• Develop Capacity to Train the Biomanufacturing
  Workforce
• Purchase equipment so each student has an
  opportunity to operate biomanufacturing equipment
  and processes
• Hire full time Biomanufacturing faculty and
  facility manager
• Train all types of students from those entering
  the NHCTC A.S. Degree in Biotechnology from high
  school, to the ordinary community college
  student, to displaced workers, to the incumbent
  worker
• Create Short Courses for Incumbent Worker
  Training
• Establish the Northeast Biomanufacturing
  Institute
• Offer three sessions/year of short courses for
  incumbent workers (and trainers, including
  faculty)
• Create National Biomanufacturing Apprenticeship
  Program
• Create with the Department of Labors
  Apprenticeship Office in Concord, NH and in
  Washington, D.C.
• Disseminate throughout the Northeast Region
  through the NSF ATE Biomanufacturing Center, the
  Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and
  Collaborative (NBC2)
• Disseminate nationally

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Equipment SOPs for Biomanufacturing Training

• Equipment SOPs
• (available at biotech.nhctc.edu/BT220/SOP/SOPTOC.h
  tml)
• APPLIKON BIOREACTOR SOP
• BIO TEK MICROPLATE READER SOP
• SANYO CO2 INCUBATOR SOP
• LASER PARTICLE COUNTER SOP
• BIOLOGIC LP SOP
• SCOUT PRO BALANCE CALIBRATION SOP
• SCOUT PRO BALANCE OPERATION SOP
• DRUMMOND AUTOMATIC PIPETTE SOP
• BIO-RAD HPLC SYSTEM SOP
• UVP CHROMA DOC-IT SOP
• MILLIPORE M AIR T TESTER SOP
• INVITROGEN SDS-PAGE GEL BOXES SOP
• BIOLOG DATABASE GRAM NEG/POS SOP
• NOVA 300B ANALYTE ANALYZER
• SANYO TOP LOADING AUTOCLAVE SOP

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Short Courses for Incumbent Worker Training

• Hands-On Short Courses
• for
• Biomanufacturing Technicians
• (including theoretical underpinnings)
• 1. Aseptic Techniques
• 2. Mammalian Cell Culture Technology
• Purification Technology
• Quality Control-Biochemistry
• Validation Certificate

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Biomanufacturing Apprenticeship Program

• NHCTC Apprenticeship Program
• For high school graduates enrolled in NHCTCs
  Biotechnology A.S. Degree
• Biomanufacturing company becomes a
• DOL registered Apprenticeship site
• Student becomes a DOL registered
• Apprentice
• Student completes 500-600 hour summer
• Apprenticeship at Biomanufacturing
• company summer of freshman year
• Student completes 1000 hour relevant
• courses during two year A.S. Degree
• program
• Student completes 2000 hour
• Apprenticeship either part-time in their
• second year or full time in the summer

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Biomanufacturing Apprenticeship Program
This years Apprentices have interviewed with
Lonza and Wyeth. They are waiting to hear from
the companies. They begin their Summer
2006 Apprenticeship In May and finish In
September.
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Biomanufacturing Apprenticeship
ProgramDisseminate throughout NE Region
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Biomanufacturing Skills and KnowledgeDisseminate
Nationally
Contact Sonia Wallman NHCTC swallman_at_nhctc.edu
View www.biomanufacturing.org www.biotechwor
kforce.org www.bio-link.org
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Communication

• Life Science Informatics
• Bellevue Community CollegeLife Science
  Informatics
• Patricia Dombrowski
• Director, Life Science Informatics
• pdombrow_at_bcc.ctc.edu
• Research and DevelopmentForsyth Tech
• Dr. Lucas D. Shallua (VMD, PhD)
• Department Chair
• lshallua_at_forsythtech.edu

Agriculture Food Processing Indian Hills
Community CollegeJanet Paulson Bioprocessin
g MiraCosta CollegeRic Matthews Dean, Math and
Sciences rmatthews_at_miracosta.edu
Biomanufacturing New Hampshire Community
Technical College Director Sonia Wallman,
Ph.D. swallman_at_nhctc.edu
Russ H. Read Executive Director rread_at_forsythtech.
edu
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• For information please visit the following web
  sites
• www.workforce3one.org
• www.biotechworkforce.org
• THANK YOU!