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

Biotechnology WorkforceBiotechnology Workforce - Success Stories- - Success Stories-

Retraining for Great JobsRetraining for Great Jobs

December 8, 2005December 8, 2005

National Center for the Biotechnology National Center for the Biotechnology WorkforceWorkforce

Biotechnology Industry

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Biotechnology Industry Characteristics

Biotechnology Industry Characteristics

Small Highly Regulated Young and Still Developing


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Biotechnology Occupational Characteristics

Biotechnology Occupational Characteristics

Specialized Skills High Level of Education Higher Wages


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Long & Short-Term SolutionsLong & Short-Term Solutions

Community Colleges Hold the Key


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Employment Projections 2002-12Employment 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

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 NeedsDiverse 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 CommunitiesDiverse 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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RationalRational 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

CompositionComposition 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

Regional Centers of Excellence/Expertise


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Problem/Solutions/ProductsProblem/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.

Informatics Informatics Learners:Learners:

Two Examples Two Examples of Diverse of Diverse

SuccessSuccess

Bellevue Community Bellevue Community College College

Life Science Life Science Informatics CenterInformatics Center


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Typical Learner: Incumbent / Healthcare– Clinician or IT

“Michelle”: Displaced Homemaker– Low average tech skills– Last work experience:1980’s medical office

administration

Bellevue Community CollegeBellevue Community College

I. Clinical Informatics: Worker Relocation to an Emerging Market


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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

Challenges:



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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


Solutions:


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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

II. Convergence Informatics:Educating the Vanguard



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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

Challenges:


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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:

Bioprocessing:Bioprocessing: Examples of Retraining with Examples of Retraining with

Successful OutcomesSuccessful Outcomes

Indian Hills Indian Hills Community College Community College

Center for Center for Agricultural Agricultural

Bioprocessing Bioprocessing TrainingTraining


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Indian Hills Community CollegeIndian 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.


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Indian Hills Community CollegeIndian 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.

Biomaunfacturing Biomaunfacturing training:training:

Examples of Examples of Retraining with Retraining with

Successful Successful OutcomesOutcomes

New Hampshire New Hampshire Technical Community Technical Community

College College Center for Center for

Biomanufacturing TrainingBiomanufacturing Training


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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


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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


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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).


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NHCTC’s Northeast Biomanufacturing Institute

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

Research & Research & Development Development

Training:Training: Examples of Examples of

Retraining with Retraining with Successful Successful OutcomesOutcomes

Forsyth Technical Forsyth Technical Community CollegeCommunity College

Center for R&D Center for R&D TrainingTraining


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Forsyth Technical Community CollegeForsyth 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.


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Forsyth Technical Community CollegeForsyth 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”.

Bioprocessing Bioprocessing Training:Training:

Examples of Examples of Retraining with Retraining with

Successful Successful OutcomesOutcomes

MiraCosta MiraCosta Community College Community College

Center for Center for Bioprocessing Bioprocessing

TrainingTraining


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“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

MiraCosta Community CollegeMiraCosta Community College

Bioprocessing Student Profiles


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“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



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“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



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Communication Communication

Life Science Informatics Bellevue Community College

Life Science Informatics Patricia Dombrowski Director, Life Science Informatics [email protected]

Research and

DevelopmentForsyth Tech

Dr. Lucas D. Shallua (VMD, PhD) Department Chair [email protected]

Agriculture & Food ProcessingIndian Hills Community CollegeJanet Paulson Coordinator, [email protected]

BioprocessingMiraCosta CollegeRic MatthewsDean, Math and [email protected]

BiomanufacturingNew Hampshire Community Technical CollegeDirector Sonia Wallman, [email protected]

Russ H. ReadExecutive [email protected]


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For information please visit the following web sites:

www.workforce3one.orgwww.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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Biotechnology Workforce - Success Stories- Retraining for Great Jobs December 8, 2005 National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce