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The University of Virginia Biotechnology Training Program addresses a strong need for a new generation of young scientists capable of working across disciplines to translate state-of-the-art biological, chemical and engineering principles into technological discoveries. Defining biotechnology broadly, we offer you a diverse range of outstanding training experiences that span the University’s Engineering and Medical Schools and the College of Arts and Sciences, a mission not provided by any other training program at the University of Virginia. Training offerings are at the forefront of modern science and include projects for you in cell, developmental and structural biology, tissue engineering, genomics and proteomics, drug design, bioprocessing, purification, and many others. We also offer a required one-three month paid training experience in a science-oriented biotech or pharmaceutical company locally, nationally or overseas. Past externships have ranged from Charlottesville to San Francisco to Sweden. In this way you experience science in industry first hand. Once per year we also tour a Virginia Biotech company. Our monthly BTP Journal Club centered on publications in Nature Biotechnology, and BTP Research in Progress presentations, are a great way to get feedback on new ideas. In addition to your science which is the most important part of the Program, you help contribute in a equitable and clearly defined way to the BTP (ie. one year editor of twice yearly BTP newsletter; member of student BTP seminar committee; organize BTP ski, raft or hiking trip, or BTP group dinner with an entrepreneur or CEO, or BTP Minority Day, or visit by a local high school; represent BTP at a conference; and help organize the biennial BTP Symposium). Among these diverse experiences, most potentially fruitful are your informal interactions with students of many different science disciplines – a mixture that can ignite some truly innovative ideas.
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