<p>Biocon on Monday announced the setting up of the Biocon Academy which will offer Biocon KGI Certificate in Bio-Sciences in collaboration with Keck Graduate Institute, USA aiming to make students industry-ready.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Biocon Academy, set up in Bangalore, aims to train and develop industry-ready talent for India’s Biopharma sector and enable global competitiveness. It will feature 16 week full-time certificate programme in Biosciences in collaboration with KGI at a course fee of Rs 1.5 lakh beginning January next year. In its first year, it plans to admit 100 students in batches of 30 each.<br /><br />Biocon Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said that though the institute will spend close to Rs 6 lakh per student for the course, the institute will offer 75 per cent scholarship to all selected candidates. <br /><br />For the remaining Rs 1.5 lakh, Biocon Academy would help students secure loans from banks. <br /><br />This will help students as, even though 40,000 biotech students pass out every year, only 2,000 are employable.<br /><br />She explained that Biocon has invested Rs 10 crore in the project infrastructure and would spend roughly Rs 5 crore every year on administrative costs. <br /><br />"India has a potential of becoming a global innovation hub for Biotechnology. The Indian Biotech sector is estimated of the size of $11 billion today and it has grown at the CAGR of 20 per cent over last 10 years. The aim of the sector is to realise the revenue of $100 billion by 2025," Mazumdar-Shaw said.<br /><br />“Biocon is pleased to partner with KGI in its new training initiative, the Biocon Academy, aimed at developing a new cadre of life sciences professionals.”<br />“KGI is uniquely qualified, through its outstanding faculty and its state-of-the-art infrastructure that includes the Amgen Bioprocessing Center, to help us with this endeavour.”<br /><br />Those with a BE/BTech in Biotechnology / Industrial Biotechnology; MSc. in Biotechnology / Microbiology / Biochemistry / Biology; and B. Pharm with a CGPA of 7.5 (71 percentage) and above are eligible to apply for the course.<br /></p>
<p>Biocon on Monday announced the setting up of the Biocon Academy which will offer Biocon KGI Certificate in Bio-Sciences in collaboration with Keck Graduate Institute, USA aiming to make students industry-ready.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Biocon Academy, set up in Bangalore, aims to train and develop industry-ready talent for India’s Biopharma sector and enable global competitiveness. It will feature 16 week full-time certificate programme in Biosciences in collaboration with KGI at a course fee of Rs 1.5 lakh beginning January next year. In its first year, it plans to admit 100 students in batches of 30 each.<br /><br />Biocon Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said that though the institute will spend close to Rs 6 lakh per student for the course, the institute will offer 75 per cent scholarship to all selected candidates. <br /><br />For the remaining Rs 1.5 lakh, Biocon Academy would help students secure loans from banks. <br /><br />This will help students as, even though 40,000 biotech students pass out every year, only 2,000 are employable.<br /><br />She explained that Biocon has invested Rs 10 crore in the project infrastructure and would spend roughly Rs 5 crore every year on administrative costs. <br /><br />"India has a potential of becoming a global innovation hub for Biotechnology. The Indian Biotech sector is estimated of the size of $11 billion today and it has grown at the CAGR of 20 per cent over last 10 years. The aim of the sector is to realise the revenue of $100 billion by 2025," Mazumdar-Shaw said.<br /><br />“Biocon is pleased to partner with KGI in its new training initiative, the Biocon Academy, aimed at developing a new cadre of life sciences professionals.”<br />“KGI is uniquely qualified, through its outstanding faculty and its state-of-the-art infrastructure that includes the Amgen Bioprocessing Center, to help us with this endeavour.”<br /><br />Those with a BE/BTech in Biotechnology / Industrial Biotechnology; MSc. in Biotechnology / Microbiology / Biochemistry / Biology; and B. Pharm with a CGPA of 7.5 (71 percentage) and above are eligible to apply for the course.<br /></p>
