The NSF Regenerative Medicine Engine is expanding opportunities and engagement across the full career continuum. Programs introduce students to regenerative medicine careers, train technicians in the skills industry needs, give undergraduate and graduate students hands-on research experience and help founders and executives lead growing companies.
Students exposed to regenerative medicine careers
Students and educators trained in regenerative medicine skills
Graduate and postdoctoral students engaged in Engine activities
Participants in internships, fellowships and research programs
Students in hands-on research programs
Founders and CEOs who gained entrepreneurial skills through the Founders Journey program
A new curriculum developed in collaboration with the North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research (NCABR).
New training programs, offered now or in development, built around skills gaps identified through industry surveys.
A new bachelor’s degree program to be developed with Carolina University.
Expanded hands-on research opportunities through the ITEC system.
A CEO Roundtable for executive-level networking and real-world knowledge sharing, and the new Biotechnology Executive Leadership Academy.
The Biotechnology Executive Leadership Academy, or BELA, is an executive education and workforce development program for biomedical researchers, faculty innovators and emerging biotechnology entrepreneurs. It helps participants make the transition from scientific discovery to successful commercialization and organizational leadership.
BELA is built for working scientists. Every session is live and virtual, held one evening a week, so participants can take part without stepping away from the lab or the classroom.
From business operations to regulatory strategy
One live virtual session each week
Scientists who want to understand what it takes to move a discovery out of the lab and toward patients.
Faculty members with inventions, patents or startup ideas who need the business, regulatory and manufacturing knowledge to advance them.
Founders and early-stage biotechnology leaders preparing to build teams, raise funding and run an organization.
Each of the five modules runs for three consecutive weeks and follows the same executive education model. Participants leave every module with a working product they can use in their own research or venture.
The essential concepts, frameworks and terminology for the topic.
Case studies, practical applications and an interactive session with a regenerative medicine biotechnology executive. Participants begin an assignment that applies what they’ve learned to their own work.
Participants present their work, receive feedback to refine it and close out the topic.
Five modules, each led by an expert from North Carolina’s regenerative medicine and biotechnology community.
James Woods, Ph.D.
Carolina University
A foundational operational plan for a biomedical venture.
Jill Keith, Ph.D.
Winston-Salem State University
An initial commercialization road map for a biomedical innovation.
Dan Cohen
Wake Forest University
A startup concept and preliminary business model.
An assessment of major manufacturing requirements and scale-up risks.
A preliminary regulatory and quality strategy.
