National Biotechnology Education Center
Biomanufacturing
Bring together leaders to share curricular advances for training biomanufacturing technicians
The Biomanufacturing Hub is a community of practice for community college faculty and partner institutions engaging in biomanufacturing education and training. The community supports programs as they introduce, strengthen or scale biomanufacturing content in their courses. Faculty mentoring paired with professional development opportunities will guide the development of new biomanufacturing content to produce well trained technicians for the biopharmaceutical, advanced therapy, and industrial biotechnology sectors. Faculty will be guided in the use established skill standards and open source curricular resources such as SOPs, batch records, and equipment lists.
What we can do for you:
- Mentor faculty in incorporating biomanufacturing content at all levels
- Mentor faculty in the design of biomanufacturing courses and programs in biopharmaceutical, industrial, or advanced therapy biomanufacturing
- Support the introduction of biomanufacturing content or modules into existing courses
- Troubleshoot experiments
- Consult with program leads and industry partners for best fit curriculum
- Collaborate on new biomanufacturing content that can be shared with the community
Maggie Bryans, Ph.D.
- Biotechnology Professor and Program Coordinator, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
- mbryans@mc3.edu
- +1 215 619 7335
James Hewlett
- Co-PI, InnovATEBIO
Executive Director, CCURI
Industrial Biomanufacturing Lead - james.hewlett@flcc.edu
- +1 585 785 1325
NBC2
For over a decade the Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative, NBC2, engaged with biomanufacturing companies to develop skill standards, skills training, and a suite of curricular materials including a textbook, several lab manuals, and over one hundred standard operating procedures. NBC2 hosted many faculty workshops and mentored faculty as they adopted the curriculum. All NBC2 curriculum is open source and available on the NBC2 website curated into biomanufacturing units. Faculty may also request access to the educator’s portal for ancillary materials such as lectures, representative data and a biomanufacturing exam. To expand the breath and impact of the website new biomanufacturing curriculum developed by NSF ATE funded projects will be reviewed and added to the website.
Preparing a Technical Workforce for Manufacturing Advanced Therapies
Advanced Therapies
Biomanufacturing Monoclonal Antibodies Using NISTCHO Cells
NISTCHO cells are a monoclonal antibody producing CHO cell line developed by NIST and MilliporeSigma as a reference material for the biopharmaceutical industry. Through funding from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, NIIMBL, and in partnership with Montgomery College MD we developed a biomanufacturing curriculum using NISTCHO for mAb production. Development of procedures for NISTmAb analytics is ongoing in partnership with members of our community of practice.
Contact us
Hub Host
Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA