{"id":1248,"date":"2019-12-02T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:05:01","slug":"the-real-world-biotech-internship-challenges-carleton-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2019\/the-real-world-biotech-internship-challenges-carleton-students\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real World: Biotech Internship Challenges Carleton Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Real World: Biotech Internship Challenges Carleton Students\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>For the second year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nrc.canada.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Research Council<\/a> (NRC), the Government of Canada\u2019s largest research organization, welcomed 25 undergraduate science students from Carleton University (CU) to its active Ottawa research facility during October\u2019s fall break to expose them to how scientists work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NRC researchers Sue Twine and Kelly Fulton from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nrc.canada.ca\/en\/research-development\/research-collaboration\/research-centres\/human-health-therapeutics-research-centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre<\/a> teamed up with Bill Willmore and Martha Mullally from Carleton University to offer students a unique experiential learning program that provides opportunities to meet entrepreneurs, business developers and top scientists in the biotechnology field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/bill-willmore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biochemistry Prof. Bill Willmore<\/a> says students in biotechnology, biochemistry and biology programs applied for the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2018\/first-nrc-cu-biotech-internship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NRC-CU Biotech Internship<\/a> and spent the week learning about business development, intellectual property management, entrepreneurship, career management, marketing, bio-manufacturing, drug design and cancer therapeutic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/NRC-biotech-students-1200x680-240x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8426\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students worked in small teams to launch hypothetical cancer biotech startup companies, choosing company names and assigning themselves roles. They were challenged to devise a new cancer therapy, as well as scientific and business strategies to develop that therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more about the experience these student&#8217;s have received read the original article from the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/biotech-internship-challenge\/\">Carleton Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year, the National Research Council (NRC), the Government of Canada\u2019s largest research organization, welcomed 25 undergraduate science students from Carleton University (CU) to its active Ottawa research facility during October\u2019s fall break to expose them to how scientists work. 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