Wednesday, March 7, 2012

World's Largest Center for Educating Biotech Employees Opens in North Carolina

A state-of the-art biotechnology training center formally opened at North Carolina State University (NCSU, Raleigh, NC) on September 19,2007. The 82,500-square-foot Golden Leaf Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) houses commercial-scale equipment to provide the specialized education and training needed to work in the biopharmaceutical industry and is believed to be the largest such facility in the world. It provides hands-on training for university and community college students, as well as industry employees, and supports research into new biomanufacturing technologies.

At the BTEC facility, NCSU offers a new minor in biomanufacturing sciences, a new degree …

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