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Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s corporate and professional education division is launching a new program to train displaced Bay State workers looking to launch new careers in biomanufacturing.
To do so, the institution’s experts are teaming up with experts from companies such as Lexington-based Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Abbott Laboratories, based in Illinois, and Princeton, N.J.-based Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. With the experts, the school has created a program dubbed “The Fundamentals of Biomanufacturing.”
This will help train workers to fill the hundreds of open jobs in biomanufacturing, WPI claimed, and will provide needed hands-on experience. The new program will teach students about the processes of full-scale biomanufacturing, including fermentation operations, media preparation, centrifugation, buffer preparation, purification and aseptic processing in a biosafety cabinet.
The first session of the eight-week evening certificate program starts April 27. Its enrollment is open, but preference will be given to Massachusetts workers who lost their jobs recently. Displaced workers may be eligible for tuition support through the Massachusetts Individual Training Account program.
Not only does this help the displaced or unemployed workers of the Commonwealth, it will also boost the life sciences industry in central New England and allow it to continue to grow, claimed Stephen Flavin, associate provost and dean of corporate and professional education at WPI.
The program is being run out of WPI’s Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park in Worcester. Alex Dilorio, associate professor of biology and biotechnology at WPI and director of the Bioprocess Center at Gateway, will lead the program, with instructors from the firms that helped develop the curriculum.
Classes will run Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Those interested should call at 508-831-5517 or visit www.cpe.wpi.edu.
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