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BIO Career Fair: Impress the best

Career Fair

Don’t miss an opportunity to spend a day with hiring managers from the nations’ top biotech firms on April 22 at the BIO Career Fair in Chicago. We asked Chanille Hewett, Product Manager for BioSpace , host of the BIO Career Fair, to share some ideas on how job seekers can benefit most from attending. You can pre-register online right now. It’s easy and will save you time at the event. Why should a job Read More >

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The Presidential Inaugural: BIO Stands Ready to work with President Obama

Jim Greenwood

Today we congratulate President Obama on his swearing-in as President of the United States. BIO looks forward to continuing to work with the president and his administration over the next four years to craft policies that will help create jobs, propel continued innovation, and increase our nation’s competitiveness in the global marketplace. The United States remains the world leader in biotechnology. Our nation’s biotechnology industry is comprised of scientists, entrepreneurs and large and small companies Read More >

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Dr. Lewis Sullivan Leads Panel on Diversity in Education and the Biotech Workplace

Luis Sullivan

This year the Diversity Summit at the 2012 BIO International Convention focused on the importance of recruiting and fostering a diverse workforce in the biotechnology field. Past Diversity Summits have focused on diversity in research and clinical trials, but experts have found that it can be challenging to develop new treatments and cures without a diverse workforce pursuing these discoveries. For panelists as well as those in the audience, the need to bring minorities into Read More >

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Expanding Opportunities to Explore Biotechnology Careers

Jim Koeninger, Executive Director of HOSA—Future Health Professionals

By Jim Koeninger, PhD, Executive Director, HOSA—Future Health Professionals HOSA—Future Health Professionals, with nearly 150,000 members in 48 states and territories, has built and maintained a pipeline of future health professionals in secondary and postsecondary/collegiate institutions to work collaboratively and cooperatively to develop and produce a highly trained workforce for the health professions. HOSA is proud that this is our 27th consecutive year of increasing membership in our nearly 4,000 chapters with 48 percent minority participation. Read More >

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Biomedical Innovation: How the U.S. Can Stay Number One

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By Ross DeVol, chief research officer of the Milken Institute “The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation,” declared President Obama in his last State of the Union speech. A logical place to start is making sure that where we hold a lead, we keep it. Today, the U.S. has such a lead in biomedical innovation — the process of transforming scientific discoveries into vaccines, diagnostics, devices and therapies that improve and Read More >

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