Biocon Academy, a Centre of Excellence for Advanced Learning in Applied Biosciences, has its second batch of 30 students successfully complete the ‘Biocon-KGI Certificate Programme in Biosciences’.  All 30 students scored above 2.75 CGPA on a scale of 4. Biocon Academy is proud to share that this batch has also recorded 100 per cent placement.

The ‘Biocon KGI Certificate Program in Biosciences’ is a 16-week, full-time certificate program being offered by Biocon Academy in collaboration with the Keck Graduate Institute of Claremont, California.

Leading companies from the Indian pharma industry, including Intas Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi India Ltd, Richcore Lifesciences, Zydus Biologics, GlaxoSmithkline India, and Theramyt Novobiologics participated in the campus recruitment process. The job offers covered a wide variety of profiles including Production, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Research & Development and Marketing.

According to Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon CMD & Biocon Academy Chief Mentor, “our aim is to address the huge skill deficit of the biopharma sector through Biocon Academy students who have been educated on the ‘business of science’ through experiential learning by experts from KGI and Biocon.”

Dr. Shelly Schuster, president, Keck Graduate Institute, said: “These students have had profound learning experiences on various aspects of the Pharmaceuticals industry. They have had a multitude of opportunities to engage in the processes that would find applications in producing biomolecules, pharmaceuticals & diagnostics. I am sure that each one of them will be a major contributor in their area of interest in the life sciences industry and continue to learn and be passionate about their profession.”

Avantika Diwakar, Noopur Gupta and Sowmyan Sreenevasan topped the charts and were the recipients of the ‘Biocon Academy Gold Medal for Academic Excellence’. The Academy also presented ‘Kudos Award’ to eight other students for their notable performance during the course of the programme.

The Third batch of the Biocon Academy commenced on 3rd Nov’ at Bangalore. A group of 30 students were chosen from over 300 applications received from different parts of India, including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in addition to Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

The online application process for the fourth batch will commence from November 10, 2014.