About 80% of high-functioning, college-educated autistic adults face unemployment.
A new program, NeuroPIPES (Neurodiversity Pipelines In bioPharmaceutical Employment through Supports), is combating this statistic by training neurodiverse talent and offering them a space to showcase their capabilities. The six-month program is a workforce/career pipeline for neurodivergent students to learn the hard and soft skills required to be successful in a biomanufacturing technician role.
“The participants in the first cohort of the NeuroPIPES are nothing short of amazing,” said Dr. Baley Reeves, director of the National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing (NCTM). “They are thriving in the program, and I see incredible potential in each.”
The NeuroPIPES program is the newest addition to the NCTM’s catalog. The center also offers internationally recognized training programs that cover many bioprocessing areas, including recombinant proteins, gene therapies and nucleic acid products.
