OTHER WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Hand-in-hand with a world class educational infrastructure, Buffalo Niagara provides other workforce development initiatives to support the talent needs of the region's growing life sciences industry. The CoE works closely with its community partners to support such crucial workforce development initiatives as:

Human Resources Services Network is a consortium of industry groups and professional service providers focused on helping life sciences and IT organizations in Buffalo Niagara succeed through optimal human resources. Life sciences candidates receive free resume posting services, and life sciences companies can receive free assessment of their human resources needs.

The Workforce Development Council (WDC) involves regional business representatives in its mission to develop available, talented employees with core skill sets for Buffalo Niagara businesses and to deliver cost effective training systems to those businesses. The WDC includes a life sciences focus (e.g., including needs assessment for employee training) as one of the top growth industry targets for the region.

The Buffalo Employment and Training Center brings together a variety of workforce development organizations and partner agencies with a primary goal of assisting residents of Buffalo and Erie County to gain employment and assist employers in finding qualified workers.

News

Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus to Revamp Trico Site
07/19/2008 - BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Armed with a $4.5 million cash transfusion, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is pushing ahead with a key physical expansion.  Patrick Whelan, BNMC chief operating officer, said funding approved last week by the Empire State Development Corp. will aid a $12 million effort to turn a portion of the former Trico windshield wiper plant into a high-tech innovation center...[Read On...]

Quantum Rod System May Safely 'Sneak' Drugs, Diagnostics into Brain
07/16/2008 - BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A unique nanoparticle system developed by University at Buffalo scientists takes advantage of the versatility of bioconjugated quantum rods to ferry novel diagnostic and therapeutic agents across the blood-brain barrier, according to recent in vitro findings. Described in a paper published in Bioconjugate Chemistry, the system uses the rod-shaped semiconductor nanoparticles that are bioconjugated, or coupled, with biomolecules capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier...[Read On...]

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Events

September 23, 2008 - MedTech08 Biosciences Summit
Growing, Changing, Booming: Adapting healthcare to the needs of an aging population.  Join us at The Lodge in Skaneateles NY for this exciting daylong event packed with industry leaders sharing their strategies for successfully adapting to the aging boomer demographic.  To learn more and register, Click here

October 27-28, 2008 - AACR Centennial Symposium
Roswell Park Cancer Institute is hosting the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Centennial Symposium, entitled “The Future of Cancer Research: Science and Patient Impact”, this fall.  To learn more and register, Click here.

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