Download - Biotech in Triad
![Page 1: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Biotech in Triad
July 12, 2010 Terry Howerton
Atkins School of Biotechnology
![Page 2: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Biotech in North Carolina
Source: North Carolina Biotechnology Center
![Page 3: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Applications of BiotechnologyMedical Agriculture Environmental
Industrial
Marine
Forensics
![Page 4: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
• Over 520 life science companies• 57,000 employed in life sciences• 123,000 additional employed in supporting
services companies• Biotech accounts for 180,000 jobs• $45.8 billion in revenue• Average salary is $69,000 vs $33,000 per capita
income• Third largest biotech industry in the nation• Ranks second in agricultural biotech• While NC unemployment rate was 11.2% last
year, employment in the biotech sector increased 1%
Source: Greensboro News and Observer (Feb 22, 2010)
![Page 5: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Types of Jobs• Research and Development• Biomanufacturing • Contract Research Organizations • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing• Chemical Manufacturing• Engineering/Construction• Medical Devices• Clinical Trials• Industrial• Regulatory• Administration• Finance • Sales and Marketing
![Page 7: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
• Over 265 Life Science companies– 86 Bioscience-related companies– 179 service/support companies
• $7 billion in revenue• Banner Pharmacaps, Cook Medical, LabCorp,
Targacept, Transtech Pharma• 9500 people work in the regions biotech industry
Source: Piedmont Triad Partnership
![Page 8: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Local Initiatives
• National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce
• Gateway University Research Park
• Center for Innovation in Nanobiotechnology
• Piedmont Triad Research Park
• Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine
Source: North Carolina Biotechnology Center
![Page 9: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
A Sampling of Triad Biotech Companies
• Algaen Corp.• Aqualutions, LLC• Clean EarthTechnologies, LLC• Cook Medical• Corn Products• DNA:SI Labs• GBF Medical Group• KeraNetics, LLC• NanoMedica Inc• Patriot Biodiesel LLC• Pharma Core• Targacept
![Page 10: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Where do we go from here?
• Heaviest emphasis is currently on R&D
• Will we move into manufacturing?
• What other needs will be developed from current research?
– Nanotechnology– Regenerative Medicine
![Page 11: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Education/Training Pipeline• Nine community colleges with programs
tailored to needs of life science
• BIOWORK certificate program
• NCCCS Bionetwork
• Eleven area 4-year colleges and universities
• UNCG, NCA&T, and WFU offer doctoral programs with “high research activity”
• One high school (Atkins) programSource: Piedmont Triad Partnership
![Page 12: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
![Page 13: Biotech in Triad](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062408/56813bf1550346895da52628/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)