Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Exciting advances in biosciences and bioengineering have taken place over the last two decades resulting in anexplosion in the number of companies that translate these advances into products for human health care. Currently, there are over 1200 biotechnology companies in the Unites States alone and annual sales ofbiotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals and diagnostics is estimated to exceed $10 billion dollars worldwide. Clearly, the birth of an entire industry poses opportunities and challenges in education. The future leaders in the field of 'pharmaceutical biotechnology' demands that we make concomitant innovations in the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers.
In order to address these challenges, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of Pharmacy joined together to establish the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (CPB). The vision is to partner with pharmaceutical biotechnology companies to form a unique program emphasizing multi-disciplinary scientific education as well as training in non-scientific disciplines critical to the success of this industry: regulatory affairs, health care policy, technology transfer, finance, and marketing. Final approval for the CPB was received in January of 1997 when Dr. John Buechner, President of the University of Colorado, sanctioned the enterprise. The CPB was the first center to bridge the University of Colorado Denver (UCD) and the main campus in Boulder (UCB). The CPB originated from a collaborative relationship between the Ph.D programs in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical Engineering.
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Additional content for this Web site is currently under development. Please check back soon for more information about the Center of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Co-Directors:
John F. Carpenter, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Theodore W. Randolph, Ph.D., Patten Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Last updated: 12/31/-31