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  • 1.  New Federal Action Plan to invest in Biotech Workforce - what's the role of Cores?

    Posted 06-29-2023 10:59


    June 29, 2023

    ABRF Members,

    You may have seen today's White House announcement of a new action plan to invest in the biotechnology and biomedical workforce.  

    https://lnkd.in/gtnAbSZW

    The aims of this plan are well aligned with the activities planned in the upcoming ABRF NSF-funded consortium with community colleges to develop training courses for community college students to be prepared for careers in Core facilities.

    After reviewing the new action plan, how else can Core facilities be engaged in this important initiative?  Would your Core or your institution benefit from an expanded workforce from community colleges?

    Share your thoughts and ideas....





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    Ken Schoppmann
    ABRF
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  • 2.  RE: New Federal Action Plan to invest in Biotech Workforce - what's the role of Cores?

    Posted 06-29-2023 11:03

    Hi Ken,

     

    Dartmouth Cancer Center is always looking for ways to engage with the community, increase diversity at Dartmouth and create a workforce pipeline, particularly because hiring talent in our remote location can be challenging. Other programs are in place at Dartmouth to do this, but none are targeted toward the shared resources and lab skills training. Apologies if this has already been sent, but is there an information packet on the NSF proposal that I can share with our admins, and with whom should I connect them if we/they are interested in participating?

     

    Fred

     

     

     

     

    Fred Kolling, PhD

    Co-Director, Genomics Shared Resource

    Co-PI, Single Cell Genomics Core

    Norris Cotton Cancer Center

    Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

     

    Phone 603-646-5487

    Email fwk@dartmouth.edu

    1 Medical Center Dr, Rubin 661, Lebanon, NH 03756

     

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  • 3.  RE: New Federal Action Plan to invest in Biotech Workforce - what's the role of Cores?

    Posted 06-29-2023 11:18

    Hi Ken,

    Over the last 15 yrs or so, my core has been working with Hudson valley Community College and served as an internship site for their students. This federal initiative is certainly a very important one in terms of workforce development specifically in the biotech fields. I know that more initiatives in this area would be welcomed not just in our institution but also the industry partners in the region.

    Like Fred, I too would like to share the aims of the ABRF ATE proposal with our admin. I am looking forward to see how we can partner on these objectives and contribute towards making this a great opportunity for the ABRF cores as well as the local community colleges.

     

    Regards

    Sridar

     

    Sridar V. Chittur, BPharm, PhD, MBA

    Executive Board member, ABRF

    Research Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences

    Director, Center for Functional Genomics, SUNY Albany

    One Discovery Dr, CRC342G

    Rensselaer, NY 12144

    Tel:518-591-7215

    Fax:518-591-7211

    http://www.albany.edu/genomics

     




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  • 4.  RE: New Federal Action Plan to invest in Biotech Workforce - what's the role of Cores?

    Posted 06-29-2023 11:28

    June 29, 2023

     

    Hello Sridar, Fred,

     

    We are standing by for the official award announcement for the ABRF Careers in Cores grant, but we've received positive signals from NSF that this will be funded to begin in October.

     

    Here's a link to the proposal for more details on the project's planned activities:

     

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ObfzxB3b6zhiH5wlbzq1ixZUkXDc5etU/view?usp=sharing

     

     

     

    Ken

     

     

     

     

    Ken Schoppmann, CAE
    Executive Director

    ABRF
    201 E Main Street, Suite 810

    Lexington, KY 
    ken.schoppmann@abrf.org
    859-514-9835

    abrf.org

     

     




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