Professor Kamal Rashid, director of the new Center for Biopharmaceutical Education and Training (CBET) at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) has been officially opened. The CBET is a $37.3 million training center dedicated to workforce development in the rapidly growing biopharmaceutical industry. The opening ceremony was attended by a number of NY politicians and friends of the College.
CBET is ACPHS’ response to the rapidly growing biopharmaceutical field’s need for an educated workforce, which has been cited as the single largest constraint to growth in the biopharma industry. The new center http://cbet.acphs.edu , the first of its kind in New York and the first created by a pharmacy college, has the potential to establish the Capital Region as a biopharma hub by helping biopharmaceutical companies develop biomanufacturing processes and products to get to market faster and more cost effectively; train their workforce in all aspects of biomanufacturing, and graduate a new generation of pharmacists who have hands-on experience in biomanufacturing and bioprocessing. The Centre has already received $4.5M from supporter for the center which includes naming the center and one labs. It took Professor Rashid two years to select the facility, hire the faculty and staff and equip the center with the latest equipment used in upstream and downdstream processing of a bio-based product.
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