GE Healthcare Life Sciences and NIBRT to boost talent growth in bioprocessing

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and the National Institute of Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) in Dublin, Ireland will deliver educational programming on biopharmaceutical and cell therapy development and manufacturing. As part of the collaboration, GE Healthcare and NIBRT will share programming, including GE Healthcare’s Fast Trak training and education curriculum, as well as co-develop a new curriculum designed to help the global biomanufacturing industry meet the needs of changing technologies and modalities.

Ireland is now home to all 10 of the top 10 world’s pharmaceutical companies and has seen approximately $10 billion invested in new biopharmaceutical facilities over the past decade. NIBRT has been pivotal in supporting the growth of the biotech talent in the Life Sciences sector, which employs 30,000 people in the country.

The GEHC and NIBRT co-developed curriculum will include single-use applications training, cell therapy technology, process efficiency strategies, process development methodologies, and chromatography proficiency. Courses will be offered at GEHC Fast Trak locations, the NIBRT facility in Dublin, Ireland and the Jefferson Institute of Bioprocessing in Philadelphia. GEHC has Fast Trak centers in South Korea, the USA, Sweden, India, and China and satellite Fast Trak Centers in Turkey, Japan and Singapore.

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