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Biotech express: This year’s 13 graduates of MED’s CityLab Academy celebrate the completion of their certificate program and look ahead to careers in biotechnology: (top row, left to right) Nan Lz, Khadija Rhourida, Jean Eveillard, and Robert Hennessy; (middle row) Elisabeth Caldeira, Younge Harris, Arminda E. Marroquin, and Terick DuPont; (front row) Elisabeth Chiulli, Alisha Josey, Jennifer Deady, Jessi Robinson, and Nicole Teabo; at far right is Connie Phillips, a MED research assistant professor and director of CityLab Academy.
For the past seven years, CityLab Academy has offered a free nine-month biomedical training program for high school graduates interested in getting a foot in the door of the biotechnology field. An extension of MED’s CityLab Program, a mobile learning laboratory for middle and high school students, CityLab Academy offers laboratory sessions and courses in medical terminology, biotechnology, cell culture, and a life-skills workshop on résumé writing and interviewing. In the spring, students spend one day a week shadowing professionals at a local company or in a MED or SDM laboratory. Recent graduates have taken entry-level jobs at biotech companies such as Genzyme Biosurgery, Adipogenix, and Organogenesis. “Many employers say that our students come out very polished,” says Phillips. Graduates earn 12 credits from Metropolitan College that can go toward a bachelor of science degree in the MET Biomedical Laboratory and Clinical Sciences Program.
Enrollment is now open for the CityLab Academy’s 2003–2004
semesters. For more information or an application, call or e-mail Phillips
at 617-638-5622 or cphilli@bu.edu or visit http://bumc.bu.edu/citylab.
Photo by Vernon Doucette
14
May 2003
Boston University
Office of University Relations