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Director: Dr. Thomas Burkett
Locations: D-203B
Telephone: (410) 455-6942
Email:
tburkett@ccbcmd.edu
Program Description
The Biotechnology Program is designed to provide high quality
classroom and laboratory training to meet the demands of the
rapidly growing and evolving biotechnology industry. Students may
choose to enroll in the Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.) or
the Certificate Program in Biotechnology in preparation for direct
entry into the workforce or transfer to a four-year institution.
Graduates of the Biotechnology Program are employed as laboratory
technicians and laboratory managers in private, federal and
academic laboratories and institutions.
Students may choose to enroll in the Certificate or A.A.S. Degree
Program in Biotechnology depending upon their prior experience and
career goals. The Certificate program is designed primarily for
those students who already hold a degree but wish to gain
pertinent laboratory experience prior to employment, those who
wish to change careers, or those seeking advancement in their
current career. A Certificate will be awarded to students
completing the program with a 2.0 Quality Point Average (QPA) or
higher. Those student who complete the A.A.S. Degree and maintain
an adequate QPA may enter the workforce directly or matriculate to
a Bachelor's Degree Program in Biology, Biochemistry, or Molecular
Biology or a three-year combined Bachelor/Master's Degree program
in Applied Molecular Biology. Students who are interested in
transferring to a four-year college should check with the program
advisor. Articulation agreements with select Maryland universities
insure credit transfer and facilitate the university admission
process.
The Biotechnology Industry has been designated by the State of
Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development as a high
growth area for the next ten years. A myriad of employment
opportunities exist within the numerous academic and government
research institutes as well as in the more than 250 privately held
biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies which employ 40,000
inpiduals in Maryland. Key employers of Biotechnology laboratory
technicians in Maryland include the National Institutes of Health,
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institutes, the Johns Hopkins
University, The Institute for Genomic Research, Human Genome
Sciences, Inc., Celera Genomics, Inc., the National Institute for
Aging and the National Institutes of Health Addiction Research
Center.
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