Biocon Academy to Offer Training in Biotechnology

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hiosci lice for 'nglne ring and cienee graduat s from Jancnrt 2014 l3iocon Krran Ma undar-Sliaw, chairm'm and managing chairperson, Bio on and Arishna, rector Kiran Mazuniclar brivatsa Secretaiy IT and 81, Shaw told pressperson here Government Karnalaka, of' at a pres.s conference in on Mdnday. A hrge n 'nib Banga/ore Monday. r on PHOTO. G.R.N. SOMASHEKAR of biotechnology graduat - did not have th skill neces lion in the countiy. will operate from l3iocon sary to be employed in the ,000 of them However> or cond c impu in Boruma industri-, The initiative was hireß S per cent are readily sandra tad have facults aimed at making them m eniplo able drawn from X 'ek tfiocon ployable throu h Idvanced Accordlng Ms to Mazum and industry. I ach course and indu tn-re] nnt trun d sth w the academy his cost Rs. L lakh. Biocon ing. "The initntve i aimed tied with up California-based ould offer merit schol ii- at dcvelc ping new cidre of Keek C raduate Institute ships to and enable sttidents to life ciences professional offer the Biocon KGI certif et cmplQ3 ed with it or othci she aid. Ms. Ma7umdar icite programme in nine leiding companie she said. Shaw iid the biotechnology modules tudy or ireas in Kirn itaka IT and PT secle- indu li-v grew at over 20 biosciences per based on the tarySri it aKrishna sai lthe cent in the Ia t decads each Keck model Enrolment for State had also ililtia CCI all id- 4 ),000 biotcdi sb the 2, wir fir t batch of op ned yin ed hiotechnologi, instid nt', pass out of 725 institu on Monday rhe idems t tube to bridge the talent gap. Biocon advanced learning unit to up skill supply

Kiran Mazumdar 51mw, CMI),Blocon, launches Biocon Academy in association with Keck Graduate Institute,USA in Bangalore on Monday SrivatsaKrishna,

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Bangalore, November The academy's flagship pro gramme is in collaboration with - ----Asia's--- leading biotech the Keck Graduate Institute, Biocon,nology enterprise, has set up California, (KGI). The KG! is an Biocon Academy -a centre of American graduate institution dcv' excellence for advanced learning in oted solely to bioscience education applied biosciences, The academy, set and discovery. up fox tli)crore, excluding the cost of While the academy offers post-

offering the course, aims to train arid graduate programmes as well in the develop industry-ready talent for United States, they will offer only the India's biopharma sector. certificate programme in India, with The academy, according toBiocon the possibility of offering more will offer advanced learning in advanced programmes in future. biosciences that will provide the According to Blocon, the pro- required proficiency for enhanced gramme will cost about lakh,witha career prospects in biotechnology scholarship ofZ4.S taft being offered for engineering and science gradu by Biocon and help th bankloans for ates. According to Biocon, itwillcon the rest U.S lakh The intake for the batch nect industry and academia to max course will initially be2s-30 per imise the opportunities for aspiring with about four batches being trained biotechnologists and to address the per annum. Biocon opens centre for biotech learning

Biocon on Biocori Managing Di ecrtor acs& id . Piocon plea 'dtopirtner - is Monday announced the set Kit in M zumdai Shiw ud vith KGI it ncwtnining 11Th ting up ofthe Biocon Acade that though h institute w ill in tiatu c, He Biocon kc, dems my which will offer Biocon spend lose to R6laii per ' Ime Tt deeioping an w KGI Certificate in Bio scr t'ident forth course, the in a cidre ol life pioles ences in collaboration with stitute will offer 7h pc Lent ' tie ices lonals Keck Graduate Institute, ehol r hip to all selec ed can f7 Ti7rrf ra 1 1lonals 'KU uniquely qualifi d USA aimlngto makestu did te'. is throughits undmgfacul' dentsindustry-ready. For U ieinaining Ra 1.5 a in md its I te of the-an infrT Bio, on Academy, et up in lakh, Biocon Academy would help tudents loans nueturethaiinciude theAni- Bangalore aims to tiam ud ccurc s øil*AbskiS gen Biopioces ing Ccntei to develop i idustn-ready talent from bank I & help with the endeavour?' for Indn'' Biopharma sector This will help ctudcnts as fljj us I hoe with BEBlech in all'! nable lobalcompetitive men though 40.000 biotech J Biotechnology industnal nes .ltwlllfLturelbweekfldl students pa s out et ry var / BiotcLhuolo"v;MSC in tiniecci tifieatL p1 ogrammem only 2000 ale employable. that . Biotechnology / Microbiology Biosciences in 01l boration She explained Biocon - il of be and it has at the CkGR I Biochunistry Biolog-, and wth Nfl at a course feofß. his invest dRslOcrore in thi India ha i potenti grnwn i of2opercento erlastiOvears. 13. Pharni with a' CGPA of7a IT lakh beginmng January prolect infra tructui c and coming a glol innovation hubtorßiotechnology Them Ihe aim of thL seetori tore (7lpereentage) and boieare next yea' in it first year. it would sp..id oughly Rs 5 ihoiceb estimat teeth revenueofsloObdlion ehgihle toapply For lhecoursc. pl in to tdnnl 100 stadcnts in ci ore every year on admini dun seciot is intoday by 205,' zumdir -Shaw OH NewsService bitches ol JOeach. trative cost . - edofthe ueof iii hUh M Biotech grads can Look to get job-ready

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Bangalore: Biotech graduates in the city who are finding it "'.:; tough to get jobs can now look : at a course that will not just re- skill but also them them, get „c"-. ' acquainted with prospective . - employers. .- A 16-week programme in bio sciences, delivered by professors -.- from the 115 and biotech indus EBTsecretarySrivatsaKrichnand try veterans, will try to polish the Biocon MD Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw skills of graduates in accordance during the launch of Biocon with the industry requirements. Academy. —Mohan kumar BN/dna Post completion of the course, candidates will get job opportu year, with almost 80% of the new nities at biotech firms in India, recruits comprising freshers. and those atthe global level. At present the state govern Statistics show about 40,000 ment has set up 12 Biotech biotech students pass out annu Finishing Schools (RIPS) at Gul- ally, but only 2,000 manage to barga, Bangalore, Tumkur, Da- find jobs. The rest either move vangere, Mysore etc. on to other sectors, or pursue Part of the Millennium Rio- other courses, teth Policy to impart profes Set up in Electronics City, Rio sional skills to biotech graduates, con Academy, as the institute RTFS imparts training to 150 Sw- will be called, aims at training dents peryear. about 100 students in a year Santa Rajan, a masters in mi- with batches of 25-30 students crobiology. who now works with per batch. an international school, feels fin According to Srivatsa Krish ishing schools are crucial, "since na, secretary, department of IT mere degrees fetch nojobs." &B'L Government of Ecarnataka, Despite trying in Bangalore the job potential for biotech in and Mumbai, Rajan failed to get Karnataka and India is humon a job in the biopharma sector, gous. "En the US, there are 1.61 forcing her to take up employ- million people in the biotech meritas a biology teacher. sector working across 70,000 "I applied, also got inter- companies. Likewise in India viewed. Rut nothing moved be- too there is good opportunity, yond that stage. Such courses which can be tapped by provid designed by' the industry will ing right skiiiing and training," also help in fetching contacts for says Krishna. the candidates, which are crucial Leading biotech firms in India to get jobs in any sector," feels hire about 800-1,000 in any given Rajan. [email protected]

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Knowledge Park Who can apply: Those witha BE/BTech in biotechnology, A hi0 h par sengseupa+ ec, industrial biotechnology; or MSc Electronics City, called the + in kio eckno ogy, microhio ogy, hi ryr WI Spread across 53 acres, thepark ageadab wilt provide infrastructurefor P!!° ..... the biotech sectorand will Costs: 6 Eakh. Rut a scholarship support incubating new ideas. of upto 15% wilt be provided to allselected students. Hence Biosciences course students have to pay only the remaining t5 lakh. WhatAl6-weekcertificate programme in biosciences at the Application details: Biocon Academy at Electronic Application has started and will City. The moduleswill include goon till Dec 62013. Thefirst molecular biotechnology, batchwilt start from Janlo, pharmaceutical development, 2014. For moredetails visit kgi. fermentation principles, edu or bioconacademy.com Biocon sets up academy for applied biosciences

G 1. will be awarded l3iocon SANGEnUA Infusing skills scholarship to pursue this a Every selected student certificate programme. In BIOCON has set up an will be awarded Biocon addition, Biocon will also as- academy and is collaborat scholarship sist the students to avail a ing with Keck Graduate In study loan from reputed a Biocon will also assist stitute, California to offer banks for the rest of the the students to avail a certificate programmes in course fee. study loan applied biosciences. Biocon "Through our collabora aims tion with the scientists and Academy at trai'ung a Curriculum will focus engineering and science SMEs at Biocon, KG! has on teamwork and wilt graduates and developing reflect industry dynamics developed an applied, grad- industry-ready talent for the uate level curriculum that biophar-ma sector. will be focused on teamwork "We have partnered with and the Indian life sciences and will reflect current in KGI for the new training liii sector as a whole will benefit dustry dvnanidcs. Such flative, the Biocon Academy greatly from this collabora graduates will have added aimed at developing a new tion," said Kiran Mazumdar skifis that will help them to cadre oflife sciences profes Shaw, CMD, Biocon, be immediate contributors sionals. KG! is uniquely "In keeping with our as employees," said Sheldon qualified, through its out commitment to affordability M Schuster, president, Keck standing faculty and its and greater access, Biocon Graduate Institute. state-of-the-art infrastruc will offer a meritscholarship India's biotech industry ture that includes the Am of 75 per cent of the course is currently valued at about gen Bioprocessing Centre, fee for all the meritorious $11 billion, having grown at to help us with this endeav students selected through a CAGR of more than O per our. Given the growing an intensive selection cent over the last 10 years. sangeothag stature of India's life sci process," the added, ences industry, both l3iocon Every selected student Biocon sets up education arm

TIMES NEWS NETWORK "There isa very large gap lected through an intensive that exists betweenthe quali selection process," said Bangalore: Biopharma tyof human capitalavailable Shaw. Initially, Biocon Acad- ceutical major Biocon has and the need of the industry. emy will have 25 students per set up an educational arm If thissectoraimsforslOObil batch, and have four batches l3iocon Academy with the lion in revenues, then it calls in a year. objective of training and de for a very large talent pool to Sheldon M Schustet; pres- velopingindustry-ready taP enable us to achieve this ident, Bick Graduate Insti- entiorIndia's $11-billionbio goal," said Kfran Maxumdar tute, said, "Through our ccl- tech industry ShaW CMI) of Biocon. laboration with the The academy will offer The Biocon Academy has scientists and subject matter engineering and science co]lahoratedwithKeckGrad experts at Biocon, KGI has graduates advanced learn uate Institute. California. to developed an applied, gradu- ing in applied biosciences offer the l3iocon 11131 Certifi ate level curriculum that will and help bridgethetalentdef cateProgram inBiosciences, be focused on teamwork and icit that plagues one of In for. which the enrollment will reflect current industry dia's stmrise sectors. process has begun. dynamics." Projected to cross reve While the 16-week pro Biocon, with revenues of nues of $100 billion over the gram would costßs 6 lakh per close to 8500 million, has next decade, the Indian hio graduate, Biocon will bring spent Rs 10crore in settingup tech industry receives 40,000 downthecosttogsl.Slakhby the Academy, and will incur graduates annually from offering scholarships. expenditure of close to Its 10 over 725 biotech institutes in "We will offer a merit crore per annum by way of the country, of which only scholarship of 75% of the administration costs and

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Biocon said it is setting up an institute in Bangalore to train graduates in skills required for finding employment in the fast- growingbiotechnology industry Starting January 2014. the institute will offer a 16- -week certificate-programme in partner- shipwith California-based Keck Graduate Institute. There isa dearth of skilled expertise in his space, which inhibits ourability to in- novate and work on deep domain experi- ments. Hiocon Academy aims to bring world class training programs for hiotech students in India throughrustomisedpro- grams" said Kiran Mazumdar Shaç chairperson and MI) atßiocon. 'Given the growing stature of India's life sciences industry, both Biocon and the Indian life sciences sectoras a whole will benefit greatly fromthis collaboration." The programme with a course fee of Rs 6 lakh—will coverareas includingmolecu- mr biotechnology, pharmaceutical devel- opnient, hio-pharmaceutical quality assurance and introduction to US FDA and European Laws. Indias biotech sector currently is valued atsllbillion, growingatanaverageannual rate of more than 20% over the past ten years. Every year roughly 40,000 biotech students graduate from 725 institutions. Starting with a batch of 30, the academy aims 'at enrolling over a hundred students in a year's time. These graduates \vill find job opporfunities inBiocon and other leading biotechnology companies. Bioron has invested about no crore in this initiative. This will also include scholarship of up to 75% of coursefee on thehasis of merit. Biocon sets up academy to bridge skill deficit

Biocon, India's largest biotechnology company, on Monday said ithas set upBiocon Academy in an initiativeto bridgethe skill deficit in the biotechnology sector. The academy, intowhich Biocon has invested 10 crore, expects toenroll around 100 students through 2Oi4for its flagship 16-week biosciences certificate programme which will be conducted in collaboration with the Keck GraduateInstitute in California, Biocon launches. new Academy

Bengalura In a bid to train and develop industry-ready talent for the biopharma sector to enable global competitiveness, Biocon inaugurated the Centre of Excellence Biocon Academy for advanced learning in Biosciences in Bengaluru on Monday The Academy's flagship programme is being conducted in collaboration with the Keck Graduate Institute, California. The 16-week programme will comprise nine modules Molecular Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical- Development, Biopharmaceutical Quality Assurance and Control, CMC Regulations of Pharmaceuticals, Introduction to US FDA and EuropeanLaws and Regulations and Fermentation Principles among others. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon, said, "In keeping with our commitment to affordability and greater access, Biocon will offer a merit scholarship of 75% of the course fee to meritorious students selected through an intensive selection process, Meanwhile, Srivatsa Krishna, IT and ST Secretary, who inaugurat- edthe Academy, lauded Biocon's initiative and called upon other biotech industries to follow suit. Academy to Make Biotech Graduates More Employable Launched Bangalore: City-based more employable, academy will ... teach them biopharmaceutical compa Speaking at the launch, skills which are in de- ny Biocon on Tuesday Managing Director of Rio mand." launched 'Biocon Acade con, Kiran Mazumdar The first batch of the in my', collaborationwith Shaw, said, "There are over course will commence in the Keck GraduateInstitute 725 biotech teaching insti January 2014 with a batch School of Applied life Sd tutes in the country churn size of25-30. Biocon will ences, USA. ing out around 40,000 provide scholarships to all The academy will offer graduates a year. However, selected candidates which graduates ifi-week hands barely of of a 2,000 them are amount to 75 per cent on finishing school styled employable. We believe theircourse fees. programme to make them they are not qualified. The "We aim to have at least

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Bangalore Biocon Ltd said it was setting up a biotechnology institute called the Blocon Academy In collaboration with the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI)

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Our Bureau European laws, molecularbio Further, Biocon has invest Bangalore, Nov. 11 technology, pharmaceutical ed Rs 10 crore in technology, Concerned over the lack of in development, biopharmaceut courseware and other things dustry-ready graduates in the ical quality assurance and con and Shawsaid that an addition biotech sector, Biocon has trol, CMC regulations of ofEs. S crore will be spent ev- launched its own academy. pharmaceuticals, mammalian ery year onthe academy. With The Bangalore-based hio cell biotechnology, fermenta this partnership, Biocon is technology company has tion principles, bioseparation hoping that KG! would repli- launched a 4-month full-time engineering & science and cate its US life-sciences suc- certificate programme in Bio professional skills cess in India. sciences in collaboration with development. "India needs to create a tal California-based Keck Gradu ent pool ofatleast 10,000 pro- ate Institute (KG!), which will FACULTY MIX fessionals," added Shaw. beacombinationoftheoryand The faculty will be a mix of

hands-on project training, ac Biocon executives and profes NOT A FIRST cordingtocompanyoflicials. sors from KGI. This is not the first time that Enrolments have started for Further, a student enrolling Biocon has ventured into the January 2014 batch and in the course will have to fork training. deadline for online application out around Es 1.5 lakh. In 2007, it entered into a is December 6, the company "About 80 per cent of the Memorandum of Understand- said. 1,000 graduates we hire are ingandestablishedDeakinRe This announcement comes not industry-ready and we search Institute in Bangalore atatimewhenthebiotechsec spend a year to get them into andajointinitiativetodevelop tor, which churns out 40,000 the job," said Kiran Mazum amammaliancellbio-process- graduates annually, finds that dar Shaw, Chairperson and ing facility atVictoria, Austra- only ha. 2,000 are employable Managing Director, Biocon. graduates. The first batch will start off India's biotech industry is To address this, Biocon's a with 25 students and Biocon estimated at about $11 billion cademy will offer modules on has plans to train 100 students having grown at 20 per cent introduction to US FDA and in the first year. CAGRin the last 10 years. Kiran Mazunidar-Shaw, Chairperson, Biocon, and Srivatsa Krishna, Secretary, IT dnd BT, Government of Karnataka. at,a press conference in Bangalore on Monday. - G.RN. Somashekar Biocon academy to offer training in biotechnology

Our Bureau European laws, molecularbio Further, Biocon has invest Bangalore, Nov.ll technology, pharmaceutical ed ils 10 crore in technology, Concerned over the lack of in development,biopharmaceut courseware and other things dustry-readygraduates in the ical qualityassurance and con andShawsaidthatan addition biotech sector, Biocon has trol, CMC. regulations of ofRs. S crore will be spent ev- launched its own academy. pharmaceuticals, mammalian cry year onthe academy. With The; Bangalore-based bio cell biotechnology, fermenta this partnership, Biocon is technology compiny has tion principles, bioseparation hoping that KG! would repli- launched a 4-month full-time engineering & science. and cate its US life-sciences sue: certificate programme in Bio professional skills cess in India. sciences in collaboration with development. "India needs-to create a tal California-based Keck Gradu ent pool of at least 10,000 pro- ate Institute (KG!), whith will FACULTY MIX fessionals," added Shay. beacombinationoftheoryand The faculty will be a mix of hands-on project training, ac Biocon executives and profes NOT A FIRST cording to company officials. "sors from KGL This is not the first time that Enrolments have started for Further, a student enrolling Biocori has ventured into the January 2014 batch and in the course will have to fork training. deadline for online application out around Rs 1.5 lakh. In 2007, it entered into a is December 6, the company "About 80 per cent of the Memorandum of Understand- said. 1,000 graduates we hire are ingandestablishedDeakinße

This announcement cones not industry-ready and we search Institute in Bangalore atatimewhenthebiotechsec spend a year to get them into andajointinitiativetodevelop tor, which churns out 40,000 the job," said ICiran Mazum amammaliancellbio-process- graduates annually, finds that dar Shaw, Chairperson and ing facility at Victoria, Austra- only 2,000 are employable. ManagingDirector,Biocort ha. graduates. The first batch will start off India's biotech industry is To address this, Biocon's a ivith 25 students and Biocon estimated at about $11 billion cademy will offer modules on has plans to train 100 students having grown at 20 per cent introduction to US FDA and inthefirstyear. CAGRinthelastloyears. Biocon starts academy

Special Correspondent try. However, 2,000 of them or barely 5 per cent are readily BANGALORE: Biotechnology employable. "Each year Bio- company Biocon Ltd. has en- con hires 1,000employees, 80 tered the arena of education per cent of them freshers. We by setting up a new centre of spend at least a year training advanced learning for bio- thsn to be industry-ready," sciences students. she said. The new arm, Biocon Acad- Tie-up emy, will start 16-week certificate courses in applied According to Ms. Mazum- biosciences for engineering dar-Shaw, the academy has and science graduates from tied up with California-based January 2014, Biocon's chair- Keck Graduate Institute to of- man and managing director fer the Biocon KGI certificate

Kiran Mazuruday-Shaw told progTalnme in nine modules presspersons here on Mon- or study areas in biosciences day. based on the Keck model. Enrolments for the first Necessary skills batch of 25 opened on Mon- A large number of biotech- day and 100 students are nology graduates coming out expected to pass out each of university courses did not year. have the skills necessary to be The academy will operate employed in theindustry. The from Biocon's second campus initiative was aimed at mak- in Bommasandra and have ing them employable through faculty drawnfrom Keck, Bio- advanced and industry-rele- con and industry. training. "The initiative vant The company has put in an is aimed developing at a new initial investment of Its. 10 cadre of life sciences profes- crore towards infrastructure sionals," she said. and expects Its. 5 crore expen- Ms. Mazumdar-Shaw said diture each year. Each course the biotechnology industry costs Its. 1.5 lakh. Biocon grewat over 20 per cent in the would offer merit scholar- last ships decade; each year, 40,000 and enable students to biotech students pass out of get employed with it or other 725 institutions in the coun leadingcompanies, she said. Biocon sets up academy for aplied biosciences

SANGEETHAInfusing skills scholarship to pursue this Chennaz In Every selected student certificate programme. " Biocon will also BIOCON has set up an will be awarded Biocon addition, as- avail academy and is collaborat scholarship sist the students to a study loan from reputed ing with Keck Graduate In Biocon will also assist for the rest of the stitute, California to offer banks "the students to avail a certificate programmes in course fee. study-loan applied biosciences Biocon "Through our collabora lion with the scientists and Academy aims at training Curriculum will focus KGI has and science " SMEs at Biocon, enneenng on teamworkand will developed applied, grad- graduates and developing reflect industry dynamics an industry-ready talent for the uate level curriculum that .-_ be focused on teamwork biopharma sector will "We have partnered with and the...... Indian life sciences and will reflect current in dustry dynamics. Such KGI for the new training ml sector as a whole will benefit will have added tiative, the Biocon Academy, greatly from this collahora graduates that will help them to aimed at developing a new tion," said Kiran Mazumdar skills cadre oflife sciences profes Shaw, CMD, Biocon be immediate contributors uniquely - keeping with our as employees," said Sheldon sionals. KGI is "In Schuster, Keck quahfied, through its out commitment to affordability M president, standing faculty and its and greater access, Biocon Graduate Institute. state-of-the-art infrastruc will offer a ment scholarship India's hiotech industry at about turn that includes the Am of 75 per cent of the course is currently valued Centre, all the meritorious $11 billion, having grown at gen Bioprocessing fee for CAGR of than 20 per to help us with this endeav students selected through a more selection the last 10 out Given the growing an intensive cent over years. she added sangeethag stature of India's life sci process," mydigitalfc.com student ences industry both Biocon Every selected Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Chief managing director Biocon

[4pj } We have partnered with KGI for the new train Vf'fl ing initiative, the Bio- con Academy, aimed at developing a new cadre of life sciences profes- sionals.lt is uniquely qualified, through its outstanding faculty and infrastructure Biocon sets up academy to bridge skill deficit

Biocon, India's largest biotechnology company, on Monday said it has set up Biocon Academy in an initiativeto bridge the skill deficitin the biotechnology sector.The academy, into which Biocon has invested UO crore, expects to enroll around 100 students through 2ol4foritsflagship 16-week biosciences certificate programme which will be conducted in collaboration with the Keck Graduate Institute in California.