The mission of Biotility at the University of Florida is to prepare emerging workforce talent and advance incumbent employees for professional success in the bioscience industries. Biotility develops and delivers certificate short-courses for incumbent workers and career seekers, prepares secondary and post-secondary educators to integrate critical workforce competencies into curricula, and administers the industry-recognized Biotechnician Assistant Credentialing Exam (BACE). Biotility serves as a catalyst for establishing infrastructure to support the United States’ growing biotechnology industry through building and implementing workforce development programs to create workplace talent. In collaboration with industry workforce boards, economic development agencies, and academic institutions, Biotility’s objectives are to:
- Promote and support economic development driven by biotechnology.
- Serve as a nationwide resource for identifying biotechnology workforce needs.
- Develop and deliver industry-driven and approved workforce development training programs.
- Support industrial biotechnology’s pipeline development needs spanning entry to advanced level employees.
- Provide nationwide access to programs through partnerships with industry and educational facilities.
Biotility’s programs and partnerships provide models that offer continued and expanding networks of support to any individual involved in the biosciences by developing industry-relevant regulatory knowledge and technical skill sets to prepare and enrich current and emerging biotechnology workforce talent.