Define workforce needs
Employers and training providers identify the skills modern biopharmaceutical operations require.
People. Partnerships. Impact.
A connected workforce.
A stronger biopharma future.
A connected national network building the AI-ready biopharmaceutical workforce—through shared curricula, digital infrastructure, and real-world learning.
The consortium in practice
Shared infrastructure.
Different learning pathways.
Training providers connect equipment and instructional expertise across the network. Explore how those shared capabilities can fit different learning settings.
Choose a training setting
Illustrative use case
Community college · Two-year degree
Integrate automation and process-data exercises into an associate degree. Students connect classroom science with instrumentation shared by other training partners.
- Combine biological science with process-data exercises.
- Practice interpreting trends and equipment responses.
- Map activities to course outcomes and assessments.
The digital backbone
Equipment across partners.
Learning across the consortium.
BioPATHs partners are building shared digital connections between instrumentation, instruction, and employer needs. The consortium model distributes equipment across training providers and access throughout the network.
Connect equipment. Train on real systems.
The shared Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) platform connects instrumentation with learning environments across the consortium. Learners can train on equipment control and data acquisition through interfaces configured with participating equipment hosts.
- Acquire process measurements from connected instrumentation.
- Use control interfaces to work with permitted parameters and process conditions.
- Link equipment operation, data interpretation, and quality decisions.
Use manufacturing data to make process decisions.
Learning activities connect control actions with the data they produce. Learners work with the host-approved controls, measurements, and interfaces available for each instrument.
- Adjust permitted settings and evaluate the process response.
- Acquire and interpret manufacturing data, trends, and alarms.
- Use measurement outputs to inform process and quality decisions.
One network. Multiple ways to learn.
Partners are connecting scientific training, automation expertise, and employer needs through shared curriculum and equipment use cases. Modules can support degree programs, certificates, apprenticeships, and incumbent worker development.
- Align content with the skills employers need.
- Match learning activities to each program and cohort.
- Invite additional partners to contribute instruments, instruction, and use cases.
How BioPATHs works
From industry need
to connected learning.
Build modular training
Connect biological science, automation, AI, and quality practices in adaptable learning units.
Share digital infrastructure
Connect equipment from training providers across the network and share access, data, and instruction throughout the consortium.
Strengthen career pathways
Integrate training into apprenticeships, academic programs, and incumbent worker development.
Find your place in BioPATHs
Your pathway into
a connected national network.
Build the workforce, expand your teaching capacity, or discover your next career pathway.
Talent prepared for modern manufacturing.
Help shape training that brings automation literacy, biological understanding, and quality practices together—for new hires and your existing workforce.
Explore employer opportunitiesAdvanced training.
Shared infrastructure.
Contribute your institution’s equipment, access instrumentation across the consortium, and integrate modular automation and AI content into existing programs.
Explore educator opportunitiesBuild skills.
Open new pathways.
Explore life science careers that combine hands-on laboratory work with digital systems, and learn how registered apprenticeships connect paid work with training.
Explore learning pathwaysLearning pathways
Shared content.
Flexible pathways.
BioPATHs connects scientific knowledge, automation skills, and shared instrumentation. Partners integrate these resources into programs and delivery approaches that fit their learners and employers.
BioPATHs supports the learning goals; participating providers and employers select the program structure and delivery approach.
Our core purpose
A skilled, future-ready workforce for a more competitive industry.
Science meetsdigital capability.
Our vision
A consortium of highly engaged employers and training partners that propels the future workforce of students and apprentices for the biopharmaceutical industry.
Our mission
Advance an AI-ready biopharmaceutical workforce through shared digital training infrastructure, connecting and aligning training for new and incumbent talent across our consortium of partners.
Our values
Four shared commitments guide how we learn, collaborate, and serve the workforce.
Act with integrity Honor
Build trust through respect, transparency, and care for learners and partners.
Build on what works Tradition
Learn from scientific knowledge, proven practice, and the experience of others while thoughtfully evaluating new technologies.
Keep improving Excellence
Use evidence, feedback, and industry needs to strengthen teaching and practical skills.
Create opportunity Optimism
Approach change with curiosity and resilience, and help people see a future for themselves in biopharma.
Core partners
Shared expertise. A common purpose.
Click on each logo to learn more about our founding organizations and partners.
About BioPATHs and our partners
Supported in part by the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) under Project Call 9.1.
Stay connected
Find answers. Start a conversation.
Explore how your organization can contribute to and benefit from shared biopharma workforce training.
What would participation look like?
Find answers about workforce needs, curriculum integration, shared equipment, and getting involved.
Training provider FAQsBring your expertise to BioPATHs
Tell us about your workforce priorities, instructional programs, or instrumentation. Together, we can identify how those contributions could support learning and industry needs across the consortium.
The future workforce
starts with a connection.
Bring your expertise, your classroom, or your workforce needs to BioPATHs.