NCBiotech News

Jose Resto retired from his 22-year Army career on May 1 he was ready for a new challenge. On August 30, he became a full-time Pfizer employee, converting his military experience in warehouse operations into a satisfying new career opportunity.

Army veteran Diane Zambrano has walked a winding career path that even took her through a "Delta variant," but she's now excited to be part of North Carolilna's solid and rewarding biopharmaceutical industry.

Durham's home-grown Humacyte becomes a public company today, as it prepares for final FDA approval of its unique bioengineered human tissue replacement systems.

When a car parts manufacturing company decided to move its 300 Lee County jobs out of its Nash Street factory to a factory in Saltillo, Mexico, Lee County bought the Sanford site for more CCCC workforce training.

Seqirus hopes to raise the bar on flu prevention with the accelerated development of its next-generation vaccine technology, called self-amplifying messenger RNA – or sa-mRNA

Federal and local grants totaling $300,000 are enabling a new pharmaceutical manufacturing workforce training program at Durham Technical Community College.

Thermo Fisher Scientific continues its run on the annual IndustryWeek Best Plants Award with the selection of its Greenville pharmaceutical manufacturing site as the 2021 winner.

Tara Cameron decided she wanted to transition from her career as a certified nursing assistant into a new position in the medical field, so she turned to Wake Tech’s BioWork certificate program and now loves her career as a technician at pharmaceutical manufacturer FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies in Morrisville.

Metrics Contract Services, a full-service global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) based in Greenville, has expanded its facilities for producing oral, solid-dose drugs.

A $441,028 grant from the National Science Foundation will help a group of educational institutions in the Piedmont Triad prepare a skilled workforce for jobs in regenerative medicine.

Global biopharmaceutical icon Amgen Inc. is building a $550 million manufacturing facility in Holly Springs that will employ 355 people

Seqirus, the global vaccine maker with a mega factory in Holly Springs, has just begun to ship its portfolio of seasonal flu vaccines to healthcare providers across the United States. It is prepared to supply approximately 60 million doses to meet demand for the 2021-2022 flu season.

Bluebird bio, a Massachusetts-based gene and cell therapy company with operations in North Carolina, will sell its Durham biomanufacturing plant to National Resilience for $110 million as part of a strategic alliance between the two companies.

If you're interested in a life sciences career, mark your calendar for Wednesday, August 4 when BioNetwork hosts its fifth virtual career fair in partnership with biopharmaceutical and life sciences companies from across the state.

North Carolina has one of the largest biopharma manufacturing industries in the nation, and a well-coordinated workforce development network is providing the right stuff to keep it growing.