I see these students fitting very neatly into development laboratories, where a lot of the focus is on product design, process design, scale-up, methods development and testing.
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Skills such as learning how to work in the laboratory environment, learning how to handle proteins, knowing the criticality of sterility in these environments, these are extendable skills that can be applied in different ways. When I think about the students coming out of CBET, I think they will build a set of fundamental skills that is pertinent in today’s industry yet adaptable to meet the needs of future novel therapeutic technologies. So that’s the opportunity with the Stack Family Center for Biopharmaceutical Education and Training (CBET), to give students who are getting that broad-based education hands-on experiences and a view of the interdisciplinary components involved in biologics development. That’s only found in the pharmacy programs. There is no other program anywhere in the education system that gives you some of the fundamental physical sciences that is also aligned with understanding of pharmacology and therapeutics. So, when you find good talent, you work hard to keep them because they become very attractive to the company down the street which is also looking to hire. There is a shortage of well-trained talent. We are continually hiring, training and working hard to retain good people. It’s an employee’s market, particularly in the biotech hubs across the country, the war for talent is vicious. It’s very competitive for hiring out there. I think it would be an obvious opportunity for students from CBET to work areas of product development, quality, both quality assurance and the testing of quality control, and of course manufacturing.
I think CBET will provide a great opportunity for industry by allowing us to dramatically reduce the amount of training required to bring people in and have them be productive quicker.Īcross the industry, we have a lot of products in the pipeline, not all make it over the finish line, but there are lot of exciting molecules out there and there is a lot of work that needs to happen to move those along. One thing made clear in the last few months with the pandemic and the urgent need to find new medicines and new vaccines is that we can’t take five years to bring products to market. Having students from CBET come to us with some specific experience, I think would be attractive to any company, because it could be a way to shorten the training timeline. And when you bring these people in, there is a fairly significant amount of training that needs to happen to get them into the specifics of the biotech field. We typically hire people with either a generic science background, like biology, microbiology or chemistry, or it’s some kind of engineering background. I have hired close to 500 people in my career. I think it’s a great opportunity for students who want to go into industry. What this new center does is take that core further and create additional career paths for students. The core of the education is strong and pretty similar across many of the programs offered at ACPHS. I served on the president’s advisory board, and it was the uniqueness of the Stack Family Center for Biopharmaceutical Education and Training (CBET) that got my attention.
I have stayed connected with the college because I like working with students and interns.
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