Center of Excellence for
Regenerative Health Biotechnology
National Science Foundation, Florida Partnership for Industrial Biotechnology Career Development and Training Program
The NSF funded "Florida Partnership for Industrial Biotechnology Career Development and Training (FPIB);" is a collaborative effort of the University of Florida's Center of Excellence for Regenerative Health Biotechnology (CERHB) working with our partners: UF's Center for Precollegiate Education and Training (CPET), the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), and the school districts of Alachua and Marion counties. Through this innovative program, FPIB is developing and implementing curricula to recruit and educate high school and college students for entry and mid-level careers in industrial biotechnology. In parallel, the partnership is providing hands-on education and training to instructors for content delivery. The students trained in this program will be excellent candidates for hire into jobs within the state's biotechnology and agritechnology sectors.
Mission
Biotechnology is a rapidly growing sector of Florida's industry, resulting in an increased demand for trained employees. Together with our partners our program goals are to:
- Train faculty and teachers at Universities, Community Colleges and High Schools
- Train students (certificate programs)
- University and university graduates
- Community college students
- High school students
- Displaced workers
- Biotech industry personnel
- Retraining
- Conduct Outreach
- High schools
- Community
- Disseminate
- National, state, and local
- Provide Hands-on training
- Provide On-line training
Industrial Biotechnology Curriculum Outline
- Manufacturing
- Production Processes
- Automated equipment
- Cleanroom operations
- Quality systems
- Regulatory compliance
- Process and Assay development
- Business
- Entrepreneurialism
- Networking
- Budgets
- Marketing
- Organizational structure
- Team approach
- Legal
- Intellectual property
Collaborating Institutions
Partners
