Biotechnology - Advanced Durham College

Overview

The Biotechnology - Advanced programme offered by the Durham College has created knowledge and products essential to our continued livelihood such as vaccines to prevent disease, pest-resistant plants, environmentally friendly biofuels and improved detection of diseases. 

Graduates of the Biotechnology – Advanced program are suited to work in a range of industries including those focused on food, the environment, pharmaceuticals, natural health products and cannabis. Learning within state-of-the-art labs using industry-grade equipment, students learn how living organisms or parts of living organisms can provide new methods of production and development of new products in a range of industries as well as the regulations which govern the use of these techniques. 

Our courses are rooted in real-world applications and our extensive analytical instrumentation lab provides practical, hands-on training. Students graduate with a strong base of theoretical knowledge and practical skills to draw from in their future careers.

Careers

What you could be:

• Biotechnology technologist

• Quality assurance technologist

• Immunology technologist 

• Microbiology technologist

• Pharmaceutical technologist

• Quality control technologist

• Clinical study technologist

• Food technologist

• Instrumentation technologist

• Research technologist

Where you could work:

• Biotechnological, pharmaceutical, agricultural or food laboratories

• Government institutes

• Quality control laboratories

• Research laboratories

• Natural health products laboratories

• Fermentation laboratories