A Demand- Driven Biotechnology Workforce- the Piedmont Triad Region

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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
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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)

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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
  Communications tools like www.biotechworkforce.org
  Biotech Resource Line Tracking Trends
• Resources applicable curriculum, standards are
  available through each site
• Trainees over 400 Associates 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

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Biotechnologys Potential
Vast and Imaginative

• Food agriculture
• Medicine
• Environment
• Information
• Other

Its a Bio World!
Photograph bySteve Brown Carl A. Sharif - NYT
Pictures
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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

Community Colleges Hold the Key
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Biotechnology Occupational Characteristics

• Specialized Skills
• High Level of Education
• Higher Wages

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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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Career and Education Ladder
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Demand-Driven Process
Approximately 90 Integration into the
Workforce
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Partnerships are Essential
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Iowa Bioprocess Training Center

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

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MiraCosta Bioprocessing Program

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

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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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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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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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RD Technical Training

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

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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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Partners Feedback

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

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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
per capita income 25,000
Forsyth
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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 Carolinas
  Biotech Corridor as the Triad represents the
  States second largest biotechnology business
  region.

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Piedmont Triad Manufacturing Employment 2000 -
2004
The case for diversification of the regions
economy
CoreNet Global Deal o the Year
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Biotech Opportunities ?

• Necessary Behaviors
• Vision / Leadership / Desire
• Collaboration
• Volunteerism
• Entrepreneurialism

Basic Ingredients
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• 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

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Triads 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
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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.

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Biotech Research Development
- the Piedmont Triad
Biomedical Research Infrastructure

• FTCC
• WFUSM
• WSSU
• UNC-G
• NC AT

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EDUCATION

• WS/FCS Systemwide Science Fair
• SciWorks
• Childrens Museum
• Atkins Technology High School
• Laboratories for Learning BIO Summer Program
• SciTech Summer Technology Institute

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Community

• Life Science Speakers Series
• Annual Technology Briefing
• Life Sciences CEO Roundtable
• PTEN( entrepreneurial initiative)
• IMAF Venture Capital
• NC Biotechnology Center Triad Office
• Babcock Demon Incubator
• PTRP Community Advisory Committee

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Training

• N.C.s largest two-year biotechnology degree
  program
• BioNetwork
• Regional bio-pharmaceutical training center

U.S. Department of Labor Grant
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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

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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 Chambers Technology Council
• NC Department of Commerce
• NC Regional Biotechnology Office
• Piedmont Triad Biotechnology Advisory Board
  (schools universities, for profits)
• Life Sciences Executive Round Table

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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

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Advancing Innovation Through
Collaborations
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Piedmont Triad Biotechnology Advisory Board
Statewide Strategic PlanActing 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

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InventoryBiotechnology 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
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The Biotech Program Process
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Environmental Assessment Reveals

• BT Workers at the technician level are a high
  need for the present future
• You train them they will have jobs

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• Vision for the Biotechnology Progam
• premiere BT program in RD in the Southeast
• now considered nationwide to be a Center of
  Excellence and Expertise in RD 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

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• Outcomes for the Biotechnology Program
• Recipient of Multiple Grants from NC Golden Leaf
  and DOL Largest BT training program in NC
• 2004 - 7 graduates 100 employed
• 2005 - 18(100) did summer internships
• 2006- 37 to be placed in internship!
• 290- currently enrolled in program
• Provider of second year BT education for 8 area
  wide community colleges
• Articulation with all Triad State university 4
  year LS programs WSFCS
• Recognized nationally as a site for the National
  Center and RD Training expertise

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• Biotechnology Partners feedback
• love the BT grads, competent and very hands on
• in-company training period shortened by half

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Possibilities

• Collaborative models
• Further Articulations/Arrangements with
• -K-12
• -Colleges
• -Universities
• -Employers/employees
• -Others

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Future

• Workforce needs are dynamic
• Collaborative spirit
• New opportunities evolve
• Infrastructure extends itself to novel ideas
• www.reallysmartpeople.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 jpaulson_at_indianhi
lls.edu Bioprocessing MiraCosta CollegeRic
Matthews Dean, Math and Sciences rmatthews_at_miracos
ta.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
• Come visit see Biotech 2006 May 22/23
  Winston-Salem, NC www.cednc.org/biotech
• THANK YOU!