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Biotechnology Workforce - Success Stories- Retraining for Great Jobs

Biotechnology Workforce - Success Stories- Retraining for Great Jobs. National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce. December 8, 2005. Biotechnology Industry Characteristics. Small Highly Regulated Young and Still Developing. Biotechnology Occupational Characteristics.

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Biotechnology Workforce - Success Stories- Retraining for Great Jobs

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  1. Biotechnology Workforce - Success Stories- Retraining for Great Jobs National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce December 8, 2005

  2. Biotechnology Industry Characteristics • Small • Highly Regulated • Young and Still Developing

  3. Biotechnology Occupational Characteristics • Specialized Skills • High Level of Education • Higher Wages

  4. Long & Short-Term Solutions • Community Colleges Hold the Key

  5. 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%

  6. Introduction: Biotechnology Community College Training Programs • Demand (or workforce) driven • Fulfill local workforce needs • Training requirement varies to locale

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Regional Centers of Excellence/Expertise

  11. 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 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 • MiraCosta custom trains for Genentech’s avastine production technicians- curriculum available • New Hampshire custom trains for Lonza’s biopharmaceutical manufacturing personnel needs- curriculum available.

  12. Informatics Learners:Two Examples of Diverse Success Bellevue Community College Life Science Informatics Center

  13. Bellevue Community College • Clinical Informatics:Worker Relocation to an Emerging Market • Typical Learner: Incumbent / Healthcare • Clinician or IT • “Michelle”: Displaced Homemaker • Low average tech skills • Last work experience:1980’s medical office administration

  14. Bellevue Community College Challenges: • Lack of big picture reference • What are the constituent parts of a contemporary medical center • Current business model driving healthcare • Updating tech skills & mind set • IT departments are disappearing • IT function is diffused to every unit

  15. Bellevue Community College Solutions: • Employment “Snapshots” • Project Shadowing • Strategic Class Grouping • Identifying Realistic First Tier Job Goals • Integrating Professional Association Membership • Curriculum Flexible Enough to Allow for Specialization by Learner

  16. Bellevue Community College II. Convergence Informatics: Educating the Vanguard • Biology is an Information Science • An Era of the Digitalization of Biology & Medicine • Genomic Research Creates Products for Hospitals “Yin”: MD /Ph.D Bioinformaticist at an International Research Institute The Need: Cross Training for Researchers and Clinicians

  17. Bellevue Community College Challenges: • Curriculum Flexibility for Learner Defined Emphasis • Titrating Classes to a Range of Students • Consistent Industry Focus: Constant Input to Ensure Relevance • Maintain Class Coherence While Ministering to Individual Information Seeking

  18. Bellevue Community College • Faculty Must Be In Industry • Project Based Curriculum / Central Resources • Recognition of Learners as Scholar / Teachers • Foster Community for Cutting Edge Learners in Coalescing Field Solutions:

  19. Bioprocessing:Examples of Retraining with Successful Outcomes Indian Hills Community College Center for Agricultural Bioprocessing Training

  20. Indian Hills Community College • Dislocated workers who have gone through our Bioprocess Training program and found jobs: • “Betty” and her husband “John”, both were laid off from a nearby company called Meritor. (~ 6 adults went through our training from this lay off.) They held machinist jobs that after 10-15 years paid ~$20/hour. The company closed, and they were retrained through our Bioprocess Technology program at IHCC. They are both now employed at Cargill in Eddyville, Iowa, and making the same or higher income after only about 3 years of employment. The woman has been promoted to a day job in charge of laboratory instrumentation, no longer working shifts, with only our 21 month degree.

  21. Indian Hills Community College • “Sally”is a woman student who has a clerical job, and is going through Bioprocess Technology retraining to attain a higher paying job. She is using DOL scholarship money to attain this retraining, so she will be better able to support herself and family.

  22. Biomaunfacturing training:Examples of Retraining with Successful Outcomes New Hampshire Technical Community College Center for Biomanufacturing Training

  23. NHCTC’s Center of Expertise in Biomanufacturing Student Story #1 • “Robert”-Chef at Wyeth • Certificate in Biotechnology Lab Techniques from Northern Essex CC • Job at Wyeth • Job at Lonza • While at Lonza enrolled in NHCTC’s Associate in Science in Biotechnology; graduates December 31, 2005

  24. NHCTC’s Center of Expertise in Biomanufacturing Student Story #2: • “Sam” Process Supervisor at Sanmina making electronic widgets at $85,000/year • NHCTC Cornerstone Course in Biomanufacturing (192 hr semester course) • Process Supervisor at Wyeth making biopharmaceutical proteins at $71,000/year • Coming back to take second Cornerstone Course in Discovery Research in order to get his NHCTC Biotechnology Certificate and advance at Wyeth

  25. NHCTC’s Center of Expertise in Biomanufacturing Student Story #3/4: • Two CNAs (and friends) graduate in 2001 from NHCTC’s A.S. Degree program in Biotechnology. • Hired at Wyeth in 2001 as a Quality Assurance Specialist and an Upstream Process Technician at over $30,000 (not including shift differential and overtime).

  26. NHCTC’s Northeast Biomanufacturing Institute The Northeast Biomanufacturing Institute is NHCTC’s Incumbent Worker Training Program • January 17th to April 18th Session • Seventeen Short Courses including Lean Manufacturing, Teamwork, Entrepreneurship, cGMP, Validation, Mammalian Cell Culture, Aseptic Processing, Chromatography Processes, Quality Control-Analytical Biochemistry, Medical Devices Regulations, Visual SOPs • Downloadable Brochure available at www.biomanufacturing.org/institute.php

  27. Research & Development Training:Examples of Retraining with Successful Outcomes Forsyth Technical Community College Center for R&D Training

  28. Forsyth Technical Community College • “Sarah”, has a high school diploma (1993) and was working as a waitress making $10,400 per year until January of 2004. She was a stay at home mom from 1998 to 2000. She had fun at work and liked the social environment. But she decided that she wanted to “make a contribution to a team that was going to do something significant; to make a difference in peoples’ lives”. After completing her degree at FTCC in the summer of 2005, she landed a job with Tengion making neobladders. She earns $27,000 with excellent benefits, stock options and performance merit pay.

  29. Forsyth Technical Community College • “Christy”, single mother of 3, has a high school diploma (1985). She owned her own business selling nutritional supplements from home and earned $18,000. Most recently she taught aerobics at the local YMCA earning $3,510 per year. Now she works at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in a cytogenetics lab. She is responsible for procedures that involve harvested bone marrow and blood samples from patients. She earns $ 25,000 per year with great benefits. She is enrolled at UNCG where she will earn her B.S. in biology, and thus be eligible to take the Cytogenetics Certification Exam. The B.S. will raise her salary to $31,000. Passing the exam will jump her salary to $40,000. The certification will enable her to make diagnoses. • Speaking about her work, Christy says “I really love it. I hardly ever take lunch because I like to finish my work. I love the clinical part, which surprises me since I thought I was going to get into research”.

  30. Bioprocessing Training:Examples of Retraining with Successful Outcomes MiraCosta Community College Center for Bioprocessing Training

  31. MiraCosta Community College Bioprocessing Student Profiles • “Jesus” • PhD in Fermentation Technology; 15 years of microbial fermentation experience • Career largely in academic and institute labs • Never worked with mammalian cells or under the impact of regulation (i.e. GMPs) • Hired before the end of the Fall 2005 semester at Genentech • Expectation to move into a technical leadership position after working “on the floor” • “Cindy” • BS in Chemistry • Various positions in quality in the aerospace industry for about 20 years • Graduated MiraCosta in 2005 • Accepted at University of Oregon in their Advanced Organic Synthesis Master’s Program • “Deidre” • Stay-at-home mom returning to the workforce • BS in Electrical Engineering; about 7 years experience at HP • Completed one semester of the program (core lab skills) and hired two weeks into the second semester by Biogen Idec (transitioned to Genentech) • Works in Logistical/Resource Planning within the Materials group

  32. MiraCosta Community College • “Vince” • Completed high school in 2000 • Graduated MiraCosta in 2005 • Hired at Tanox for a summer internship • Offered a full time position at the end of the summer in Quality Control at $18/hr with full benefits • “Sharon” • Former high school science teacher of 26 years • Graduated MiraCosta in 2005 • Hired by a company that participated in an on-campus career fair, Illumina • “Andrea” • Business co-owner; stay-at-home mom; no previous higher education • Graduated MiraCosta in 2005 • Hired by CancerVax in a Clinical Research Associate position – not a position specifically targeted by our program but they appreciated all the skills she developed • Laid off (!) in December 2005 as part of massive downsizing due to poor clinical outcome of lead product • Now pursuing further education in Clinical Research through UCSD

  33. MiraCosta Community College • “Matt” • US Marine; over 4 years service • Work experience in service industry • No higher education but always loved the sciences • Completed MiraCosta’s program in 2005 • Hired by Tanox for a summer internship in the purification dept. • Laid off (!) as part of restructuring efforts • Received 3 job offers in 4 interviews through a temp agency • Ultimately hired by Genentech and tested out of almost 4 weeks of OJT • Working in Manufacturing Operations Support • Genentech has hired 8 of our students in the past 3 months • 2 students have been hired directly without completing the semester

  34. Communication Agriculture & Food Processing Indian Hills Community CollegeJanet Paulson Coordinator, Biotechnology jpaulson@indianhills.edu Bioprocessing MiraCosta CollegeRic Matthews Dean, Math and Sciences rmatthews@miracosta.edu Biomanufacturing New Hampshire Community Technical College Director Sonia Wallman, Ph.D. swallman@nhctc.edu Life Science Informatics Bellevue Community CollegeLife Science Informatics Patricia Dombrowski Director, Life Science Informatics pdombrow@bcc.ctc.edu Research and DevelopmentForsyth Tech Dr. Lucas D. Shallua (VMD, PhD) Department Chair lshallua@forsythtech.edu Russ H. Read Executive Director rread@forsythtech.edu

  35. 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

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