Overview:
The BRT Apprenticeship offers apprentices a career pathway to becoming biomedical research technicians in a research laboratory environment. Through advanced training they acquire skill sets to facilitate experimental procedures, manage a laboratory and monitor lab safety, conduct data analysis on experiments, and other highly-skilled techniques with the goal of supporting a lead scientist and staff in the laboratory to advance scientific hypotheses and outcomes. This apprenticeship model successfully creates cross-boundary collaborations between industry, academia and research institutes, offers in-depth training and education while providing students a wage, and gives trainees the skillsets sought after by the life sciences industry.