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RESILIENCE Launch Event - COME AND JOIN US!
We are excited to announce the formal launch of RESILIENCE, the newly formed UK Medicines Manufacturing Skills Centre of Excellence! Join us in Birmingham on Thursday 12th September for an afternoon of stimulating discussions and networking.
01 July 2024
Free training with immersive VR? Too good to be true? Guess again!
Over fifty undergraduate and postgraduate students from all over Scotland attended a careers fair in Glasgow last week. Students were "absolutely blown away" by the RESILIENCE programs and future plans. RESILIENCE Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University Laura Porcza explains more...
31 July 2024
Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products in Healthcare
ATMPs are radically changing patient outcomes in several diseases. Their properties make them very different from traditional medicines, and they bring new, complex challenges in terms of storage, handling, and maintaining a chain of custody from raw material to the patient. This course covers biology, production and use of ATMP medicines; the current clinical landscape; sources of risk in delivering cell products to the clinic; and clinical user perspectives.
02 September 2024
Medicines Manufacturing Careers Outreach Week
‘A’ level students from across 3 schools have just completed an intensive 3-day lab placement at the UCL Department of Biochemical Engineering under the wing of RESILIENCE Outreach lead Dr Bernice Wright. The students enjoyed learning about mammalian cell culture and key analytics for evaluating cell phenotype, viability, and cellular products.
23 July 2024The RESILIENCE Medicines Manufacturing Skills Centre of Excellence is a partnership between the University of Birmingham, University College London,Heriot-Watt University, Teesside University and Britest Limited.
The Centre brings together leading regional training providers to support the UK life sciences workforce by delivering high quality training and outreach, spanning the entire careers pipeline for industry, academia, and the NHS.
Adopting a co-ordinated and scalable approach to skills development, the Centre comprises a network of academic delivery partners with an unrivalled track record for delivering training for the medicines manufacturing community. Drawing on our existing infrastructure for rapid operationalisation, we are building onto them new approaches such as:
Co-created, co-branded core materials for training and outreach that are readily scalable across the UK.
Digital training approaches including cutting edge virtual reality and mixed reality to enable standardisation and consistency across our network.
Accelerator programmes for T-level students, undergraduate placement students, graduates and CPD trainees, and apprenticeship cohort activities, supporting all career entry points.
An end to end network connecting UK schools, colleges, and industry
Students can benefit from the RESILIENCE Centre through free resources to inspire a future generation of medicine makers. RESILIENCE aims to provide teaching and outreach materials to 150 schools, colleges and universities for free, enabling them to become affiliate members of the RESILIENCE network, as well as nurturing the talent pipeline for the medicines manufacturing sector through education, mentoring and outreach.
What we do
RESILIENCE brings together the UK's leading regional training providers in Medicines Manufacturing Skills to co-create core materials for training and outreach that are readily scalable across the UK, harness cutting edge VR and mixed reality for standardisation and consistency across our network, and provide accelerator programmes for students supporting all career entry points.
Our Mission
RESILIENCE will be a scalable, end-to-end talent development network for the UK medicines manufacturing sector, working with the sector to address current and future workforce needs. Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion we will increase the talent pipeline, build resilience and ensure sustainable workforce growth. Adopting the latest digital training technologies, we will create a digitally competent workforce, supporting digital transformation and net zero goals.
Our name reflects our values and offering
RESILIENCE exists to foster resilience in the future workforce and pharmaceutical industry in the UK. We are committed to excellence in our training, to overcoming barriers to access, to embedded equality, diversity and inclusion in all our outreach, training, coaching and partner engagement, and to providing leadership in Digital Transformation and Net Zero.