SINGAPORE: A new professional conversion programme (PCP) has been launched to help mid-career professionals, managers, executives and technicians ...
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Doing so will help equip trainees with skills required to take on new, sought-after roles such as biotechnologist and production engineer, the agencies said.Together with the existing PCP for medical technology engineer and assistant engineer, which was launched in October 2017, both schemes are likely to help a total of 450 people embark on new careers in the biomedical science sector over the next three years.
Despite the pandemic-induced downturn, the biomedical science sector and its subsectors, including the biopharmaceuticals manufacturing industry, have remained “bright spots of growth and opportunities”, EDB and WSG said.This is due to a sharp increase in worldwide demand for pharmaceutical and healthcare products amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients and biological products.
EDB’s senior vice-president of healthcare Goh Wan Yee said the expanded scope of the new PCP will equip Singaporeans with the skills required to capture opportunities in new areas such as small molecule pharmaceuticals while augmenting the existing talent pool.
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