Biotech-Careers

Laurie Issel-Tarver from Ohlone College sent me a link to this new AgBiotech curriculum resource from the FDA. This was jointly developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA). It's called " Science and the Food Supply " - Exploring Food Agriculture and Biotechnology - Teacher's Guide for High School Classrooms. You can download it for free.

This curricular supplement contains five modules:

1. Foundations of Agriculture

2. Genetic Engineering in Food... Read more

We recently presented a webinar on exploring biotech careers and how to use Biotech-Careers.org for investigating how companies are fighting COVID-19. This purpose of this blog is to gather some of those topics in a single place together with the career exploration handouts from Dr. Karen Leung, City College of San Francisco.

1. VIEW THE RECORDED WEBINAR

2. Learn about Karen Leung's Career Exploration Course at City College of San Francisco

3. Go to the bottom of this page to download Dr.... Read more

As the numbers of COVID-19 cases continue to increase, so do the numbers of companies that are working on COVID-19 tests, therapeutics, and vaccines. In early March we began tagging companies, in the Biotech-Careers.org database, that are working on COVID-19. Initially there was a small number of companies. By mid March there were 57, and today - April 6 - there are 109. It's great to know that there are so many companies working on this problem, but what else do they do?

We wanted to know too. The Biotech-Careers.org company (employer) database has always had a rich set... Read more

As many know, each program page in the Bio-Link.org website has a link to biotech employers in their state. The link used to connect to a Google search. But, as Google is a dumb aggregator, this link would yield somewhat odd results, like aerospace companies when we'd want biotech companies. So, we improved the link by connecting to data in the Biotech-Careers.org website.

Last year, as inspired by a biotech careers survey in which many of the participants indicated that they wanted to know where the employers were, we created a database of employers... Read more