The Biotechnology Program
What is this?
Strengths of the Program
- Academic excellence
- Highly affordable tuition
- Career opportunities and advancement
- Only biotechnoloy program in the region
- State-of-the-art biotechnology laboratory equipment
- Internship program for work experience in
biotechnology industries
- Courses offered in the late afternoon or evening for working students
- Excellent research faculty devoted to teaching
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Biotechnology Programs at UM St. Louis
- The use of biological, biochemical, and bioengineering techniques
with living organisms or biological agents. The goal in applying
these techniques is to improve plants or animals, to make new
products, to modify existing products, and to improve the quality
of life for all people.
Biotechnology in History
- Fermentation - bread, beer and wine fermentation by yeast
- Yogurt and buttermilk fermentation by bacteria
- Livestock - breeding of cattle and horses
- Crops - hybrid plants for disease resistance and high yield
- Medicine - antibiotics and vaccines
- Engineer living organisms to produce
- hormones
- therapeutic drugs
- enzymes, antibodies and other proteins
- vaccines
- Diagnose diseases
- Alter cells to repair defects
- Identify genes that cause diseases
- Alter plants for improved crop yield
Careers in Biotechnology
- Research scientists who develop new products
- Forensic scientists
- Immunologists
- Bioprocess engineers
- Manufacturing
- Quality control and compliance with Federal Regulations
- Marketing and Sales
- Teaching
Biotechnology Programs at UM - St.
Louis
- Bachelor's degree in Biology
- Master's degree in Biology
- Ph.D. in Biology
Undergraduate Biotechnology Certificate
Program
Graduate Biotechnology Certificate Program
We gratefully acknowledge the support of
Sigma Chemical Company
and the
National Science Foundation for this program.