Understanding how a biopharmaceutical company works is essential to your ability to navigate a successful career in it. An expert with 30 years of industry experience at a blockbuster company will cover such topics as how the markets drive the structure and function of biopharmaceutical companies; how the patent system and regulatory agencies shape companies [….]

For more information, contact BIOTrain@MontgomeryCollege.edu or call 240.567.2245. Understand the role of regulatory agencies in the development process. Learn how products and services are developed within the guidelines of government agencies. Find out how a federal regulation influences influences the development, manufacturing and distribution of regulated products in the life science and health care industry.

3. Building Essential Skills- Negotiation. For more information, contact BIOTrain@MontgomeryCollege.edu or call 240.567.2245. When viewed as problem solving, negotiation moves from being a win-lose game to one of mutual benefit. This workshop will help you negotiate ways to achieve more of what you want in preparing for negotiation. There are new ways of practicing negotiating [….]

Quality 101. For more information, contact BIOTrain@MontgomeryCollege.udu. or call 240.567.2245.Learn the basics taught by professionals certified by the American Society for Quality. Understand simple approaches to quality concepts, including -understanding your customers – Developing as a quality leader – Benefits of a process & systems approach – Continual improvement practices – Fact based decision making [….]

Protein Purification Workshop. For more information, contact BIOTrain@MontgomeryCollege.edu or call 240.567.2245. Understand the basics of downstream protein purification. This hands-on workshop will focus on the method of protein purification on Bio-Rad NGC instruments. Some knowledge of protein structure and function and purification methods is required. Three consecutive Saturdays.

2. Building Essential Skills- Managing Difficult Conversations. For more information, contact BIOTrain@MontgomeryCollege.edu or call 240.567.2245. Many conversations have significant outcomes: interviews, reviews, negotiations. Because the stakes are so high, we fear the outcome, tend to put off the conversation and are not adequately prepared for it. This workshop defines methods for turning potentially confrontational events [….]

1. Building Essential Skills- Claiming Your Strengths. For more information, contact BIOTrain@MontgomeryCollege.edu or call 240.567.2245. Claiming Your Strengths starts with the identification of your key strengths- what you love to do, and your weaknesses-what you hate to do. Strategies are presented by which you can enhance your career by working your strengths to advantage while [….]