IUSM to offer new graduate degree in biotechnology

By Joe Stuteville

Rapid advances in genomics and related disciplines will offer new challenges to the state’s existing biotechnology workforce

“The rapidly changing frontier of biotechnology has created a need for highly trained research and medical specialists and we’re responding to that need,” said William Bosron, assistant dean for graduate studies at IUSM. “Moreover, rapid advances in genomics and related disciplines have created new challenges for the existing biotechnology workforce to keep current.”

The program is designed for the continuing education of research technicians in academic and industrial laboratories who have undergraduate degrees as well as new graduates seeking to enhance their skills in biotechnology.

“The program provides the latest instruction, hands-on laboratory courses and an interactive problem-based learning experience,” said Bosron, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. The IUSM’s top research faculty will serve as program instructors.

The IU Biotechnology Training Program is part of the Indiana Genomics Initiative (INGEN), an IU-based biomedical endeavor launched more than a year ago through a $105 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc.

For more information about the Biotechnology Training Program, contact Judy White at 317-274-7151.

http://www.medicine.iu.edu/~gradschl/biotechTraining/index.html