Biocon will set up Biocon Academy, a centre of excellence for advanced learning in applied bio-sciences. Biocon Academy set up in Bangalore aims to train and develop industry-ready talent for India’s biopharma sector and enable global competitiveness.
The academy will offer advanced learning in biosciences that will provide the required proficiency for enhanced career prospects in biotechnology for engineering and science graduates. It will connect the industry and academia to maximise the opportunities for aspiring biotechnologists and to address the skill deficit of the sector.
The academy will focus on developing the spirit of experimentation, application of knowledge and the innovation skills of the bioscientists in India, to make them employable in the biotech sector.
The academy’s flagship programme in collaboration with Keck Graduate Institute, California, the ‘Biocon KGI Certificate Programme in Biosciences,’ has started for enrollment, for the January 2014 session. The deadline for online application submission is December 6, 2013.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon, said, “Biocon is pleased to partner with KGI in its new training initiative, the Biocon Academy, aimed at developing a new cadre of life sciences professionals. KGI is uniquely qualified, through its outstanding faculty and its state-of-the-art infrastructure that includes the Amgen Bioprocessing Centre, to help us with this endeavour. Given the growing stature of India’s life sciences industry, both Biocon and the Indian life sciences sector as a whole will benefit greatly from this collaboration.”
She added, “Biocon Academy aims to bring world class training programmes for biotech students in India through customised programmes like the Biocon KGI Certificate programme in Biosciences and make them employable. In keeping with our commitment to affordability and greater access, Biocon will offer a merit scholarship of 75 per cent of the course fee for all the meritorious students selected through an intensive selection process.”
Sheldon M Schuster, President, Keck Graduate Institute, said, “We are proud to be working in partnership with Biocon to develop a unique educational experience for students and scientists who want to develop skills for working in a complex, global, highly regulated industry, one that that has tremendous capacity to improve lives. Through our collaboration with the scientists and subject matter experts at Biocon, KGI has developed an applied, graduate level curriculum that will be focused on teamwork and will reflect current industry dynamics. Graduates with the Biocon Academy-KGI certificate in bioscience will have added skills that will help them to be immediate contributors as employees.”
He added, ”KGI faculty will deliver courses synchronously to students at the Biocon Academy facility using developed technology, supported by experts in the life sciences industry at Biocon. Set up in Bangalore, Biocon Academy will provide the biotech industry the best professionals with the right orientation and training — thus leading the way in transforming the industry and the community.”
EP News Bureau – Mumbai
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