The National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing (NCTM) is an interdisciplinary education center of Texas A&M University that provides multi-generational technical training and professional development programs for the biopharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing industries. NCTM offers a variety of online, instructor-led, and hands-on training options to fit any need. View our catalog using this link. If those options aren’t sufficient, NCTM also offers customizable training programs to mix and match relevant unit modules! Contact us at programs@nctmmail.tamu.edu
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The National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing (NCTM) is recruiting additional biopharma industry mentors to connect with our 2025 biomanufacturing training cohorts starting in January. If interested, please complete this form: http://tx.ag/exlentmentors I'll reach out to our 2024 mentors soon to assess your interest in participating in the coming year!
Interested in learning about mRNA therapeutics manufacturing and quality control? Join us for our Hands-on Manufacturing of mRNA Vaccines & Therapeutics course from November 4-8. America's first hands-on mRNA therapeutics training gives participants the opportunity to perform manufacturing unit operations such as In Vitro Transcription (IVT) reactions, mRNA encapsulation, formulation, and more! Participants will also perform QC assays including RiboGreen, ddPCR, HPLC, and other tests to evaluate product characteristics. Interested parties can use the following link for course registration: https://lnkd.in/grBJWT94 #NCTM #TEESresearch #tamu #mRNA
Our industrial stainless steel equipment has seen a lot of use over the past couple of months! We've been using the 125L bioreactor for days at a time to cultivate bacterial cultures for a Texas A&M researcher and a couple of times for the graduate student class. The disk stack centrifuge is our favorite way to harvest the cultures...despite making enough noise to rival a jet engine. Then we have to clean both stainless steel units with the Clean-In-Place (CIP) system between batches, resulting in the kind of piping spaghetti you see in the images below. The NCTM staff have been working tirelessly with these instruments to manufacture large amounts of biomass for our research client! #NCTM #TEESresearch #tamu #bioprocessing #stainlesssteelingmyheart
Dr. Baley Reeves led a workshop for the Manufacturing Sciences Group (MSG) for the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN International), funded by the Gates Foundation. Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMIC) vaccine manufacturers from all over the globe came together in Dubai to work towards accelerating vaccine manufacturing worldwide. #NCTM #TEESresearch #tamu #biomanufacturing
𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗜𝗖𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗠𝗜𝗖𝘀, our CEO, Rajinder Suri envisioned the creation of an elite team of professionals from within leading DCVMN member companies to form two specialty groups of SMEs i.e. Quality by Design (QbD) and Manufacturing Science Group (MSG) to be imparted specialized training by experts on each subject. In turn, they would train the manufacturing staff on QbD and MSG for emerging manufacturers with a focus on Africa realizing the potential benefits of collaboration between Africa CDC and DCVMN in helping the AU achieve its goal of enabling the African manufacturing industry to develop, produce, and supply over 60% of the total vaccine doses required on the continent by 2040. To realize this vision, Mr. Suri reached out to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and PATH for funding support. After securing this, the same approached Mr. Jaap Koster, CEO and Senior Consultant, PCS - Pharmaceutical Consultancy Services - GMP & GDP Consultancy, Training, Audits and Software, based in the Netherlands, and Dr. Baley Reeves, Director, National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing (NCTM) | Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), for the technical expertise on QbD and MSG respectively. Both of them were extremely helpful and assured full support. Jaap and Doutje from PCS, and Baley from TEES were joined by Amanda Zehnder, Senior Organization Development and Change Management Advisor – CVIA, PATH, who offered the IDD (Instructional Design Delivery) to enrich the program duly supported by Menka Sharma from DCVMN. The three-day program was organized by Prerna Kumar and Myna Pandya from DCVMN in Dubai from Oct 2-4. The intensive workshop included expert presentations, discussions, debates and interactions leading to cross-fertilization of ideas and bringing out a clearly defined road map and training program for the budding aspirants in QbD and MSG. Mr. Rajinder Suri said in his closing remarks that this is just the beginning of a long journey towards self-sufficiency and vaccine equity in LICs and LMICs. He added that as a next step, he intends to collaborate with World Health Organization, CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations), Africa CDC, Pan American Health Organization and RVMC to extend the benefits of this specialized course to the most deserving candidates engaged in vaccine manufacturing and capacity building in Africa and LATAM.
Last week we were thrilled to host International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering of Texas A&M University students for a lecture and lab tour! Students learned more about the biomanufacturing industry and some of the equipment used in processing including a 125L bioreactor, tangential flow filtration skid, and chromatography skid. By all accounts we'd sparked curiosity and we hope several of these students pursue a career in biomanufacturing. Thank you to all who attended :) #NCTM #TEESresearch #tamu #ISPE #biomanufacturing
We were delighted to host Nkaeye for our hands-on mRNA manufacturing training! We hope this valuable experience with IVT reactions, encapsulation, formulation and more prove to be useful as Thapelo enters into Africa's growing mRNA manufacturing industry. Thank you Maravai LifeSciences for making her participation possible! #NCTM #TEESresearch #tamu #mRNA #biomanufacturing
💡 Maravai LifeSciences' Science & Innovation Office was proud to sponsor Nkaeye Thapelo from South African Medical Research Council in Cape Town, South Africa to attend the recent mRNA manufacturing course held at the National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing (NCTM) located on the Texas A&M University campus. ⭐ Watch the video below to hear from Nkaeye about her experience attending the course and the importance of having the involvement of companies like Maravai LifeSciences and TriLink BioTechnologies, part of Maravai LifeSciences to help democratize science around the world. #Education #Innovation #GlobalCollaboration #mRNAmanufacturing #Biotech
Are you working on a potential breakthrough in the world of biotechnology? Consider attending an info session for the Gulf Coast Consortia REACH! Info session details are below, hope to see you there! #NCTM #TEESresearch #tamu #GCC #biotech
Please join us at NCTM for another ISPE South Central Chapter Educational Event to learn more about HVAC filtration and Annex 1 environmental monitoring! This event will be simulcast to sites in Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, and Grapevine. Dinner and drinks will be provided. 🍝 🥂 Students can attend for free! 🎓 Register now by visiting the site below. https://lnkd.in/gMMHe_M6 #NCTM #TEES #tamu #ISPE #biotechnology #biomanufacturing #pharmaceuticals #seminar #networking
Our next offering of the Advanced Upstream training is slated for September 23-27. Interested in deepening your understanding of upstream processing? Our Advanced Upstream course dives deep into process development and optimization for both fermentation and cell culture. During this course you'll operate bioreactors of different scales, up to a 50L single use stirred tank vessel, learn about media optimization, feeding strategies, cover cell banking, harvest operations, and more. Use the link below to view more course details and register: https://lnkd.in/gw87rwAd #NCTM #TEESresearch #tamu #cellculture #biomanufacturing #handsontraining
There are now at least 3 Bioscience Core Skills Institute (BCSI) certified evaluators in the Bryan/College Station area, ready to evaluate individuals and assess their biotechnology skills! Visit bcsi.bio for more information
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I just returned from a stellar week graciously hosted by BioLabs Pegasus Park - North Texas (loud shout-out to Gabby Everett for opening her doors for us!) training faculty in Certified Evaluator skills for Bioscience Core Skills Institute (BCSI). Please join me in welcoming Logan Ardrey and Lyndsey Torrez from National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing (NCTM), Shazia Ahmed, Juliet Spencer, Lionel Faure, Adalvan Daniel Martins and Youlanda FitzGerald from Texas Woman's University, Julio Ruiz from The University of Texas at Austin, Roxanne Berry from Blinn College, and Shanta MacKinnon from North Carolina Central University to the army of BCSI Certified Evaluators deployed in Texas and North Carolina! Extra thanks to Diana Elrod for the amazing support she provides to her faculty at TWU.