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BioLAUNCH
Get the skills and training needed for high-demand, high-quality careers in the field of BioScience.
program overview
Course Length
- 3 weeks Pre-Training Academy
- 4 months Laboratory Instruction & Training
- 2-3 months Industry Internship
- High performance in training is needed to progress from one training stage to the next, including interviewing for an industrial internship.
Class Schedule
Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Internship schedule determined by intern site
Course Outline (changes based on industry training priorities)
- Environmental Health and Safety
- Lab equipment maintenance and calibration
- Pipetting
- Weighing, volumetric measurement, calculating dilutions
- Autoclaving
- Centrifugation
- Ordering, receiving, inventory management, asset tracking
- Preparing shipping/customs documentation
- pH adjustment
- Aseptic technique
- Quadrant isolation, spreads, DNA prep
- Mycoplasma surveillance testing
- Spectrophotometry
- Biosafety cabinet (BSC) use
- Live-dead cell counting
- Microscopy Handling dry ice
- Animal Husbandry
- Managing glassware
- Build a Buffer or Media
- Grow bacterial cells
- Prep DNA/protein
- Transformation/Transfection
- Grow mammalian cells
- Western blotting
(coursework will also include keyboarding, computers, word processing, communications, professional development, financial literacy)
Applicants who would do well in training would be those with:
Good basic reading and math skills (high school algebra)
Aptitude and inclination for hands-on work
High consistent attendance and punctuality
High quality customer service
Ability to follow detailed instructions and complete tasks on schedule
Willingness to learn new things
Comfort working independently and as part of a team
Ability to work seated for approximately 80% of a typical working day. Ability to work standing for approximately 80% of a typical working day
Ability to grasp with both hands; pinch with thumb and forefinger; turn with hand/arm; reach above shoulder height
INTERNSHIP
Internships allow ConnCAT students to demonstrate their skills, perform assignments practiced during didactic training and function as a bioscience lab intern. It is important to us that internship experiences are mutually beneficial. Thus internship sites can expect professionalism and productivity from ConnCAT interns.
Upon successful completion of the didactic training, students will complete a 2-month internship as a bioscience laboratory operations intern.
Industrial Partners
Arvinas
Alexion
Halda Therapeutics
Siduma Therapeutics
EvolveImmune Therapeutics
Yale University
Cybrexa Therapeutics
BioHaven
Isoplexis
Artizan Biosciences
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE STRATEGY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. This project is being supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number SLFRP0128 awarded to the State of Connecticut by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the CT Office of Workforce Strategy.