Furthermore, as these courses require a large amount of specialized molecular biotechnology equipment, grouping undergraduates with graduate students in one section allows more students per semester to gain exposure to the equipment (Carson et al., 2009).
A specialized bioengineering ion beam line has recently been completed at Chiang Mai University to meet rapidly growing needs of research and application development in low-energy ion beam biotechnology.
In the five counties that are part of the central New Jersey cluster — Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and Somerset — 5 percent of the office space, about 6.5 million square feet, is laboratory space and other specialized space for biotechnology companies, according to CoStar Group, a real estate information company in Washington.
Also, costs are likely to soar in some specialized categories like cancer treatments and biotechnology drugs.
For that reason, before the recession, many states and municipalities, including New York City, were passing initiatives to try to capture biotechnology businesses with new, specialized office and laboratory space.
By looking on the Internet, you can also find more specialized conferences such as the fall Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) human resources conference.
A company like MBL is able to focus specifically on the biotechnology sector and provide the specialized management support (market knowledge, networks of contacts, knowledge of the investment environment, business planning expertise, etc).
The increasing focus on these core skills has opened up opportunities for other specialized firms to participate in the U.S. pharmaceutical-biotechnology ecosystem (PBE).
They have a biotechnology laboratory in collaboration with NIMR, and a specialized Clinical Research Centre for TB clinical trials as part of the APRIORI program.
One is whether it is willing to move away from its traditional model of chemical pills for chronic diseases toward the injectable protein drugs being developed by biotechnology companies, which tend to be aimed at cancer and other more specialized conditions.
