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Biotechnology Workforce An Overview
Russ Read, Executive Director National Center
Biotechnology Workforce Forsyth Technical
Community College
AURP - November 3, 2005
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Core Scientific Principle Basis of
Biotechnology
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Objectives

• Industry Sectors General Overview
• Skills Education Required Within the Industry
• Demand-Driven Workforce Solutions

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Biotechnology Industry Characteristics

• Small
• Highly Regulated
• Young and Still Developing

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Biotechnology Occupational Characteristics

• Specialized Skills
• High Level of Education
• Higher Wages

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Workforce Challenges

• Pipeline Development
• Recruitment
• Retention
• Skills Competencies Training
• Competencies Career Ladders
• Mapping to Other Industries
• Image Outreach to the Public
• Data Definition
• Image

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Workforce Solutions Examples

• Pipeline Recruitment Retention
• Provide students faculty with opportunities
  such as job shadowing, mentoring, industry
  speakers, career clubs, etc.
• Create flexible, short-term training options to
  keep up with ongoing industry training.
• Create a system for continuous skills-upgrade
  training, career enhancement, and career ladders
  and lattices.
• Skill Competencies Training
• Create a map matrix of existing competencies
  and models, assess gaps, and validate/update
  regularly.
• Develop models with incentives for K-12
  institutions to work with college and corporate
  partners.

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Long Short-Term Solutions

• Community Colleges Hold the Key

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Opportunities

• With each new industry breakthrough and
  advancement comes new jobs.

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Regional Partnerships Collaboration

• Know what resources exist within your region.

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Employment Projections 2002-12

• 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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Introduction Biotechnology Community College
Training Programs

• Demand (or workforce) driven
• Fulfill local workforce needs
• Training requirement varies to locale

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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/biomanufacturing and bioinformatics

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Diverse Communities

• Agricultural biotechnology - rural clusters
• Manufacturing - Biomanufacturing/ bioprocessing
• Informatics - life science applications linked to
  software/ IT clusters
• Research Development adjacent to universities
  with biotechnology / biomedical research focus

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Skills/Education Requirements Biotechnology

• Discovery Research Technician or Assistant
• Description
• Perform research tasks experiments
• Analyze interpret data
• Write experimental protocols, reports,
  summaries
• Handle purchase lab equipment and supplies
• Entry- Level Position
• Associate degree in science with related
  experience with annual salary of 25,000
• Other Positions
• RD positions linked to bioinformatics

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Skills/Education

• Bioinformatics Associate
• Description
• Store, retrieve analyze biological information
  such as DNA and protein sequences
• Run data analysis programs data mining on
  public gene databases
• Work closely with research scientists to prepare
  software design specifications
• Routinely use Linux, Oracle or Access database
  programs and Perl or Java language
• Entry-Level Position
• B.S. in life science field with lab experience
  and 0-2 years computer science experience
• A.S. in computer science with biotechnology lab
  and bioinformatics certificates

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Biomanufacturing Jobs Technician level

• Process Development (Industrial Engineering
  Technician ONET 17-3026.00)
• Validation (Industrial Engineering Technician
  ONET 17-3026.00)
• Manufacturing Upstream (ONET 19-4021.00)
• Manufacturing Downstream (ONET 19-4021.00)
• Instrumentation/Calibration (Instrumentation
  Technician ONET 17-3023.02)
• Chemistry QC (QC Technician ONET 17-3026.00)
• Mircobiology QC (QC Technician ONET 17-3026.00)
• Quality Assurance Documentation (QC Technician
  ONET 17-3026.00)
• Facilities (Maintenance Mechanic ONET
  49-9041.00)
• Environmental Health Safety (Safety Inspector
  or Technician ONET 29-9011.00)

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Biomanufacturing Technician Jobs)

• Note Any of the biomanufacturing jobs can be had
  at the entry or technician level, e.g. Upstream
  Bio-Manufacturing Technician pays about 40,000.
• Education an Associate degree or Certificate
  from a community college biotechnology program
  with a biomanufacturing focus.
• Example displaced worker with previous
  supervisory experience could be hired as a
  Supervisor in Upstream Bio-Manufacturing and
  garner a much higher salary (e.g. 70,000 vs.
  40,000).

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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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Regional Centers of Excellence/Expertise
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Problem/Solutions/Products

• Bellevue CC retrains displaced workers from IT
  layoffs to become in demand Life Science
  Informatics specialist process, skill
  requirements, job descriptions curriculum
  available
• Forsyth Tech CC ( 3 years old, largest BT
  Training program in NC) retrains displaced
  workers of manufacturing lay offs to become
  needed research lab technicians- curriculum
  available
• Indian Hills CC trains biofermentor technicians
  to address the increased demands for biofuels-
  curriculum available

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Partnerships/Models/Replication

• Mira Costa CC develops unique ways of dealing
  with industry and professional partners- attitude
  based- create win/ win for community to fulfill
  the need for trained workers results in-kind
  opportunities
• New Hampshire CTC works closely with
  biomanufacturing companies in the Northeast to
  fulfill their needs for skilled technicians and
  professionals

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A.S. Degree in Biotechnology (e.g. NHCTC)

• Year 1
• General Biology I/II
• Microbiology
• General Chemistry I/II
• Organic Chemistry
• Introduction to Computers/Internet
• English Composition
• Algebra II
• Social Science Elective
• Writing Technical Documents

• Year 2
• Biotechnology Experience I Discovery Research
  (192 hrs)
• Biotechnology Experience II Biomanufacturing
  (192 hrs)
• Ethics or Bioethics
• Probability and Statistics
• Elective (Language/Humanities/Fine Arts)
• Technical Elective (could be Externship)

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E.g. Certificate in Biotechnology

• Biotechnology Experience I Discovery Research
  (192 hrs)

• Biotechnology Experience II Biomanufacturing
  (192 hrs)

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Universality of Biotechnology Curricula

• The Bioscience Industry Skill Standards define
  the skills, knowledge and attributes required for
  Biotechnology jobs. Published in 1995, they can
  be found at
• http//www2.edc.org/bec/standards/gateway/Pages20
  72-73.pdf

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Biomanufacturing TechnicianUpstream Processing
BATCH CULTURE CHO CELLS
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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 CollegeMichael Ott Director of Iowa
BioDevelopment otterm_at_gmail.com Bioprocessing
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
• Please visit a DOL/ ETA webinar on the
  Biotechnology Workforce originally broadcast
  9/14/05 by connecting to either of these sites