In Philadelphia, the Wistar Institute has been awarded a $649,971 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the continued expansion of its award-winning Biomedical Technician Training (BTT) Pre-Apprenticeship Program.  The grant supports Wistar’s reach to community colleges in the States of New Jersey and Delaware that may have limited or no access to hands-on laboratory training and internships.  Created in 2000, The Wistar Institute’s BTT Program was initially designed as a two-Summer, mentored Technician Training Program that prepared community-college students for positions in academic and biomedical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical laboratories.

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