Also called: CAR-T Manufacturing Associate
Makes personalized cancer treatments by engineering each patient's own immune cells.
Gowns up fully, receives a bag of one patient's blood cells, and spends days in a cleanroom modifying and growing them into a living drug for that one person.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in biology or biotechnology.
Ways in: 4-year college, 2-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Biotechnology.
Growing much faster than average (about 8% over 10 years). Estimate; cell therapy capacity is expanding.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Closed automated systems are coming, but personalized living drugs still need skilled cleanroom hands.
Classes: AP Biology, Chemistry, Biotechnology CTE class.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-4021.
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