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A Demand- Driven Biotechnology
Workforce- the Piedmont Triad
Region & Forsyth County, NC
Russ H. Read
Executive Director
National Center for the
Biotechnology Workforce
Forsyth Tech
Winston-Salem, NC
“The Plan”
• The National Center for the Biotechnology
Workforce
• The Piedmont Triad Area of North Carolina
• The case for Biotechnology
• The Forsyth Tech Biotech Program
• Your questions and ideas for North
Louisiana Partnership
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Five Distinct Centers of Expertise (Community Colleges)
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
Progress & Future Aims
• Dissemination: national & regional presentations, web
site, subject matter experts for webinars
Communications tools like www.biotechworkforce.org &
Biotech Resource Line “Tracking Trends’
• Resources: applicable curriculum, standards are
available through each site
• Trainees: over 400 Associate’s degrees; close to 700
short innovative programs ; hundreds of middle & H.S.
teachers & students; tracking outcomes
• Partnership models: collaboration between education,
community and workforce providers are available on a
site by site basis
Biotechnology’s Potential
“Vast and Imaginative”
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Food & agriculture
Medicine
Environment
Information
Other
It’s a Bio World!
Photograph by:
Steve Brown & Carl A. Sharif - NYT Pictures
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
Community Colleges Hold the Key
Biotechnology Occupational
Characteristics
• Specialized Skills
• High Level of Education
• Higher Wages
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%
Career and Education Ladder
Demand-Driven Process
opportunity
needs
implementation
sustainability
results
Approximately 90% Integration into the Workforce
Partnerships are Essential
College
Industry
Workforce
Development
Iowa Bioprocess Training Center
• Training Programs, A.S.
– Bioprocess Technology
– Ethanol Maintenance Tech
• Workforce Development
• Technical training
– Online, custom, etc
– Process Control Certificate
MiraCosta Bioprocessing Program
• Elements
– Specialized
Curriculum (with
Industry)
– Specialized Faculty
– Specialized Facilities
– Outreach and
recruitment
– 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 Labor’s 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
Biomanufacturing Apprenticeship Program
NHCTC Apprenticeship Program
•For high school graduates enrolled in
NHCTC’s 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
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
R&D Technical Training
Prepare graduates who are highly skilled:
1. Research and Development (Major Emphasis)
2. Biomanufacturing/Bioprocess (Minor
Industries).
Research Competencies
• Nucleic Acid-DNA
Technology
• Cell and Tissue Technology
• Biomolecular Separations
• Industrial Processes
• Research Lab Animal
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Partner’s Feedback
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Competent (Hard and Soft skills)
Easily Trainable
Very hands-on
Mature and Reliable
Piedmont Triad Area
Location- 60-90 miles from Charlotte and Raleigh (RTP)
• 1,517,790
Population 1,517,790
Largest Industry
in terms of employees - Health Care
Forsyth
per capita income $25,000
The Piedmont Triad
• The Reality “Business climate has deteriorated over the
past two decades; 37,000 jobs lost from industry once led
by tobacco, textiles, and furniture.”
• The Vision “Business, government, and academia
collaborating to create a framework for recovery and
economic growth.”
• The Opportunity “Expand on North Carolina’s Biotech
Corridor as the Triad represents the State’s second largest
biotechnology business region.”
Piedmont Triad Manufacturing
Employment 2000 - 2004
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Manufacturing Jobs (000s)
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The case for diversification of the region’s economy
CoreNet Global Deal o the Year
Biotech Opportunities ?
Necessary Behaviors
• Vision / Leadership /
Desire
• Collaboration
• Volunteerism
• Entrepreneurialism
capital
workforce
Infrastructure
Basic Ingredients
What Biotechnology Companies look for:
 Research Universities and Institutions
 Experienced Management
 Venture Capital
 Educated and trained workforce
 Attractive, flexible, and affordable physical location
 Cultural environment
 Cluster networks
Triad’s Resources
• Bio-Medical and Health Care is one of the fastest growing
employment sectors in Forsyth, Guilford and Alamance. 240
related firms employing 31,223
• More than 20 universities, colleges and technical schools
enroll more than 40,000 students.
• Technology Transfer offices create entrepreneurial growth.
• Community Colleges are training a biotech workforce.
• NC Biotechnology Center opens first regional office .
• Quality of Life, Lower Cost of Living.
Source: Piedmont Triad Partnership
Triad Challenges
• Capital for physical infrastructure to create affordable cost
facilities.
• Investment / finance for start-up companies.
• Incentives to attract and sustain technology companies.
• Improve economic disparities and societal barriers.
• Complexity of Regionalism.
• Recognition of the Triad as a technology hub.
Biotech Research & Development
- the Piedmont Triad
Biomedical Research
Infrastructure
–FTCC
–WFUSM
–WSSU
–UNC-G
–NC A&T
EDUCATION
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WS/FCS Systemwide Science Fair
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SciWorks
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Children’s Museum
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Atkins Technology High School
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Laboratories for Learning – BIO Summer Program
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SciTech Summer Technology Institute
Community
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Life Science Speakers’ Series
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Annual Technology Briefing
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Life Sciences CEO Roundtable
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PTEN( entrepreneurial initiative)
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IMAF – Venture Capital
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NC Biotechnology Center – Triad Office
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Babcock Demon Incubator
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PTRP Community Advisory Committee
Training
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N.C.’s largest two-year biotechnology degree program
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BioNetwork
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Regional bio-pharmaceutical training center
U.S. Department of Labor Grant
Piedmont Triad Capital Possibilities
Capital &
Entrepreneurial Activity
Angel capital & Local Venture
- Piedmont Angel Network
- Inception Micro Angel Fund
Knowledge & Environment
- Piedmont Triad Entrepreneurs Network
- Wake Forest Babcock Business Incubator
- Nussbaum Incubator
- Seed Stage Advisory
- Winston - Salem Technology Council
“New” Economic Development Groups
in the Piedmont Triad
Strong, Cooperative Organizations
 Two active research parks being built
 Piedmont Triad Entrepreneurs Network (PTEN)
 Piedmont Triad Partnership
 Chambers 3, Triad
 Action Greensboro
 Winston - Salem Chamber’s Technology Council
 NC Department of Commerce
 NC Regional Biotechnology Office
 Piedmont Triad Biotechnology Advisory Board (schools
universities, for profits)
 Life Sciences Executive Round Table
Piedmont Triad Research Park
 Expansion master-plan:
 200 acres
 WFUHS research campus
 Three districts identified
for development based on
“livability and workability”
 25 - 30 year buildout
 5.7 million gross square feet of
potential development
Advancing Innovation Through
Collaborations
Research
Partners
Public Sector
Universities, Federal Laboratories,
Medical Centers
Federal agencies, State,
County, City
Workforce
Training
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FTCC, NCSA
Life Science
Development
Partners
NC Biotech Center, Dept. of Commerce
Research Triangle Institute, SBTDC
Business
Networks
Private Sector
Companies
Life Science Companies, CMO’s, Developers,
Suppliers, Contractors
Chamber of Commerce
Law Firms, Banks, VCs,
PTEN, CED
Babcock-Demon Incubator
Local ED’s
Piedmont Triad Biotechnology
Advisory Board
Statewide Strategic Plan
Acting on 21 Regional Initiatives
• Assessment/Inventory will show trends, resources, gaps
• Identify projects, goals, vision in three timelines
• Short Term Projects: ex: Assessment, Economic Index, Events
Workforce
• Mid Term Goals: ex: Marketing, wet-lab incubator, pilot scale
mfg
• Longer Term Vision: ex: International Business Incubator,
Biomanufacturing facility recruitment
Inventory
Biotechnology Industry
- the Piedmont Triad
49 Life Sciences Related
Companies
12 medical device manufacturers
8 medical service providers
4 clinical laboratories
9 biotechnology companies
16 pharmaceutical companies
33 support/service companies
The Biotech Program Process
Personnel
faculty
Implement & evaluate utility
grants, in- kinds
Internal/ External advisors
Curriculum
Not to be reinvented
Environmental Assessment
Reveals
• BT Workers at the technician level are a
high need for the present & future
“ You train them they will have jobs ”
Vision for the Biotechnology Progam
• premiere BT program in R&D in the Southeast
• now considered nationwide to be a Center of Excellence and
Expertise in R&D Training
• specialization in training & retraining candidates for the workforce for
biotech (Piedmont Triad) job placement
• job placement at companies, universities or medical center research
labs
• closely partnered with Schools K-12, WFUHS, colleges, universities
and Life Sciences companies
Outcomes for the Biotechnology Program
Recipient of Multiple Grants from NC Golden Leaf and DOL: Largest
BT training program in NC
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2004 - 7 graduates: 100% employed
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2005 - 18(100%) did summer internships
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2006- 37 to be placed in internship!
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290- currently enrolled in program
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Provider of second year BT education for 8 area wide community colleges
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Articulation with all Triad State university 4 year LS programs & WSFCS
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Recognized nationally as a site for the National Center and R&D Training
expertise
Biotechnology Partner’s feedback
“love the BT grads, competent and very hands on”
“ in-company training period shortened by half”
Possibilities
Collaborative models
• Further Articulations/Arrangements with:
-K-12
-Colleges
-Universities
-Employers/employees
-Others
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Workforce needs are dynamic
Collaborative spirit
New opportunities evolve
Infrastructure extends itself to novel ideas
www.reallysmartpeople.org
Communication
Life Science Informatics
Bellevue Community College
Life Science Informatics
Patricia Dombrowski
Director, Life Science Informatics
[email protected]
Research and Development
Forsyth Tech
Dr. Lucas D. Shallua (VMD, PhD)
Department Chair
[email protected]
Agriculture & Food
Processing
Indian Hills
Community College
Janet Paulson
[email protected]
Biomanufacturing
New Hampshire Community
Technical College
Director
Sonia Wallman, Ph.D.
[email protected]
Bioprocessing
MiraCosta College
Ric Matthews
Dean, Math and Sciences
[email protected]
Russ H. Read
Executive Director
[email protected]
For information please visit the following web
sites: www.workforce3one.org
www.biotechworkforce.org
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Winston-Salem, NC www.cednc.org/biotech
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