{"id":214701,"date":"2025-05-24T21:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T02:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-new-era-of-biotech-education"},"modified":"2025-05-24T21:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T02:12:03","slug":"a-new-era-of-biotech-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-new-era-of-biotech-education","title":{"rendered":"A new era of biotech education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-era-of-biotech-education.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a world shaped by biotechnology, why are so few college students exposed to its possibilities early on in their education? The Biotech Explorers Pathway (BEP) is changing that by immersing students in hands-on, real-world science from day one.<\/p>\n<p>BEP, an interdisciplinary WashU Ampersand Program recently highlighted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-025-02666-0\" target=\"_blank\">Career Feature<\/a> in <i>Nature Biotechnology<\/i>, combines science, entrepreneurship, and teamwork, going beyond lecture-based courses. The program isn\u2019t just about teaching fundamentals\u2014it\u2019s about preparing students to lead the next wave of biotech innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world shaped by biotechnology, why are so few college students exposed to its possibilities early on in their education? The Biotech Explorers Pathway (BEP) is changing that by immersing students in hands-on, real-world science from day one. BEP, an interdisciplinary WashU Ampersand Program recently highlighted as a Career Feature in Nature Biotechnology, combines [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}