In a gleaming climate-controlled laboratory inside the Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC), a student sits at a control panel in front of a bioreactor, initiating a protein purification process.
This is the classroom of the future, part of a $68 million facility on NC State's Centennial Campus where students receive advanced training on the same large-scale equipment found at the world's leading biotechnology companies.
It's no accident that many of those companies are located nearby, on Centennial Campus, in Research Triangle Park and in rural North Carolina communities. North Carolina has risen to become one of the top three biotechnology regions in the United States.
BTEC is not only a state-of-the-art educational center, it's an economic engine, providing skilled workers for the biotech industry and helping to attract new companies to the state.
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