Bio-1 is a consortium of partners founded in 2007 designed to identify and promote bioscience in the

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area. It is the result of a $5 million grant made available by the

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(WIRED) program.

Mission statement

Bio-1's goal is to make Central New Jersey (CNJ) the next “hot spot” for the global bioscience industry, by creating high-quality, high-paying jobs and a skilled workforce. The five-county BIO-1 partnership is named for the Route 1 corridor from Rutgers to Princeton, around which most of CNJ's biotech firms are clustered. The CNJ region, comprising Hunterdon,

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Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of ...

Monmouth Monmouth ( , ; cy, Trefynwy meaning "town on the Monnow") is a town and community in Wales. It is situated where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, from the Wales–England border. Monmouth is northeast of Cardiff, and west of London. I ...

, and

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counties, has received $5 million, available under the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) program from the United States Department of Labor (USDOL). The WIRED grant will be used to transform the rich array of existing bioscience education and training and economic development initiatives into a world class bioscience talent development system. The partnership has its roots in an initiative created by Governor Jon Corzine as part of his statewide economic strategy. This is the third WIRED investment in New Jersey, making it “the most WIRED state” in the U.S.

Goals

In collaboration with representatives of all key players in the biosciences in CNJ, the Bio-1 initiative will focus on six key strategies: * Excite young people about the bio-sciences, especially focusing on underrepresented groups. * Create a consortium of biotechnology educators from the high school through university levels that will facilitate smooth career pathways through articulation agreements, mentoring and professional development. * Transform graduate education with the development of professional science master's degrees that integrate business and science, and interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs in biotech areas. * Increase bioscience workforce development with education and training opportunities. A “flak jackets to lab coats” initiative, for example, will focus on training and job placement in the bioscience industry for returning veterans. * Enhance linkages between education and industry through internships, cooperative education and mentoring. * Facilitate globally competitive “biobusinesses” by encouraging collaboration between business and education, supporting bioscience start-ups and leveraging existing global networks.

Partners

Industry groups

* BioNJ, Inc. (formerly Biotechnology Council of NJ, representing over 300 Member companies)
HealthCare Institute of New Jersey
(representing 34 pharmaceutical and medical device companies)

Individual companies

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company i ...

Celgene Celgene Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that makes cancer and immunology drugs. Its major product is Revlimid ( lenalidomide), which is used in the treatment of multiple myeloma, and also in certain anemias. The company is incorporated in ...

PTC Therapeutics PTC Therapeutics is a US pharmaceutical company focused on the development of orally administered small molecule drugs and gene therapy which regulate gene expression by targeting post-transcriptional control (PTC) mechanisms in orphan disease ...

Elusys Therapeutics Elusys Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company founded in Pine Brook, New Jersey in 1998. The company specializes in the development of antibodies for the treatment infectious diseases. The antibodies are developed from protein complexes calle ...

* Vicus * Genmab *

Merck Merck refers primarily to the German Merck family and three companies founded by the family, including: * the Merck Group, a German chemical, pharmaceutical and life sciences company founded in 1668 ** Merck Serono (known as EMD Serono in the Unite ...

* Sanofi-Aventis * Bristol-Myers Squibb

Workforce Investment Boards

* Middlesex County WIB * Monmouth County WIB * Greater Raritan Valley WIB (Somerset and Hunterdon counties) * Mercer County WIB

Colleges and universities

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

Monmouth University Monmouth University is a private university in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, it became Monmouth College in 1956 and Monmouth University in 1995 after receiving its charter. There are about 4,400 full- ...

* Rider University * The College of New Jersey *

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) was a state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey, United States. It was founded as the Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry in 1954, and by the 1980s was both a major ...

(UMDNJ) * Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) * Consortium of County Colleges including: **

Raritan Valley Community College Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) is a public community college in North Branch, New Jersey. RVCC offers Associate degree programs leading to an Associate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Science (A.S.), Associate of Fine Art (A.F.A), or a ...

** Brookdale Community College ** Middlesex County College ** Mercer County Community College

Research institutes

* Cancer Institute of NJ * Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey *

Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine The Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM) is located on Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey. It was established in 1985 to advance knowledge in the life sciences for the improvement of human health. It is administered by Rutger ...

(CABM) * Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment *

Waksman Institute of Microbiology The Waksman Institute of Microbiology is a research facility on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University. It is named after Selman Waksman, a student and then faculty member at Rutgers who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1952 for research which l ...

High schools

Biotechnology High School Biotechnology High School (BTHS), or commonly referred to as Biotech, is a four-year comprehensive high school, comprehensive vocational school, vocational state school, public Secondary education in the United States, high school serving studen ...

(Monmouth County) * Waksman Scholars – 20+ high schools * Rider University partner high schools

Government and non-profit organizations

New Jersey Economic Development Authority The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) is an independent government entity in the U.S. state of New Jersey dedicated to broadening and expanding the state's economic base. The EDA creates public-private partnerships to provide access ...

* New Brunswick Innovation Zone * Edison Venture Fund * New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development *

New Jersey Department of Education The New Jersey Department of Education (NJ DOE) administers state and federal aid programs affecting more than 1.4 million public and non-public elementary and secondary school children in the state of New Jersey. The department is headquartered ...

* State Employment and Training Commission * New Jersey Commission on Higher Education * New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology * Governor's Life Science Workforce Advisory Council * The Biotechnology InstituteWho are the Bio-1 partners?
2007.

References

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External links

Bio-1 Homepage

WIRED Homepage

US Department of Labor

US Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration

BioNJ Homepage
Research organizations in the United States