Earlier this week, the Delaware Innovation Valley Network (DVIN) announced its first innovation grant award: The Wistar Institute will receive $89,000 to support the Wistar Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) Program, a two-year workforce development program in the biosciences. Wistar is partnering with the Community College of Philadelphia.

Here's a description of the course:

Biomedical Technician Training

BTT 101
Biomedical Technician Training Practicum
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Hands-on experience with data record keeping, laboratory tasks and routines, and the use and maintenance of lab equipment and reagents. Includes 345 hours of in-depth skills training in various resource laboratories at The Wistar Institute or a comparable research laboratory. Prerequisite: Permission of the Biomedical Training Academic Coordinator and completion of the Orientation to Biomedical Technology.

You can read more from a press release here.

On July 1, DVIN completed the second round for proposals for the Innovation Investment Fund, which will provide more than $2.4 million in funds over the next three years to support training and capacity building programs in the life sciences workforce in the Delaware Valley, a 14 county region.

You can find a copy of the DVIN Investment Guidelines as an attachment to this post.