<p>Can you recommend some good (like Top 10 Good) Universities that offer Biotechnology (along with a couple of nanotechnology courses if possible) ?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Duke, JHU, Stanford. Lower ranked overall as a school but great program: UCSD.</p>
<p>At Northwestern, you can get cert in biotech as a ChemE
<a href="http://www.chem-biol-eng.northwestern.edu/ugradpgm/cert_biotech.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.chem-biol-eng.northwestern.edu/ugradpgm/cert_biotech.html</a>
or major in BME <a href="http://www.bme.northwestern.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bme.northwestern.edu/</a> </p>
<p>NU's nanaotech is supposed to be among strongest in the nation; I'd look at chemistry and material science depts' websites for further info. I think couple chemE profs are also involved in that area.</p>
<p>cornell, washu, jhu</p>
<p>check out JHU's BME program</p>
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I think couple chemE profs are also involved in that area.
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Seems like a lot of ChE profs are involved in biotech or nanotech nowadays. The headline news on the Michigan ChE Dept website reads: "Scientists Discover Rules for Some Common Virus Shapes" ... research done by a ChE PhD student and his professor. And the research areas in the department are roughly divided between: 1) Life Sciences and Biotechnology; 2) Energy and Environment; and 3) Complex Fluids and Nanostructured Materials. Whatever happened to the traditional chem engineering?</p>
<p>cornell mit</p>
<p>GoBlue81,</p>
<p>I got it from NU website. This should sorta answer your question.
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What is Chemical Engineering?
Where did Chemical Engineering come from?
Chemical Engineering (ChE) evolved during the 20th century in response to the need to analyze and design processes for the large scale manufacturing of products that involve physical, chemical, and biochemical transformations. While ChE is clearly rooted in Chemistry, it's important for students to appreciate that ChE is a distinct discipline. Concerns about efficient utilization of raw materials, cost-effective and safe processing strategies, and environmental impact have, over time, shaped the evolution of the following unique set of skills that characterize ChE:</p>
<p>Understanding of molecular transformations;</p>
<p>Ability to work over a wide range of scales - from molecular to global;</p>
<p>Quantitative analysis skills; and</p>
<p>A viewpoint by which large, complex systems are synthesized and analyzed.
Where is Chemical Engineering going?
The tools imparted by a ChE education have proven to be extremely versatile and productive. As a result, today's chemical engineer is highly sought after to work in a wide array of industries and technologies extending far beyond the profession's roots in large scale chemical processing. This includes: environmental protection, biotechnology & bioengineering, pharmaceuticals, food processing, consumer products, electronic materials, and even employment in the financial sectors. A major theme, profession-wide, is the ever-expanding application of ChE principles to biological problems.
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<p>I'd want to add that "biotech" itself borrows quite a bit chemE principles. I've also read that before biotech/biomed became a distinct field, it's the chemEs who were most involved in the related area.</p>
<p>The funny thing about academic professors teaching "biotech" is that none of them really have an industry experience. They do teach great research skills but academic research and what is practiced in industry are 2 completely different things.</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>"The funny thing about academic professors teaching "biotech" is that none of them really have an industry experience. They do teach great research skills but academic research and what is practiced in industry are 2 completely different things"
Maybe but at Wisconsin biotech firms are sprouting up all over the place using UW profs research as a base. Something about having the patents on stem cells and scores of other things.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bio.wisc.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bio.wisc.edu/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/</a></p>
<p>Thanks barrons.</p>
<p>UCSD is great in that field, I think. And of course Stanford.</p>
<p>Can someone kindly rank them ?</p>
<p>Rank which? UCSD and Stanford? Or all of them? Rank them overall? Or just in biotech?</p>
<p>"Maybe but at Wisconsin biotech firms are sprouting up all over the place using UW profs research as a base. Something about having the patents on stem cells and scores of other things."</p>
<p>First off, embryonic stem cell research is still an academic disciple. Yes, many of the science that is founded in academia is transfered to industry, but often as an undergrad the professors that teach you do not come from an industry background. Take for instance, in San Diego, there have been a few companies started from the technology of Peter Schultz (<a href="http://schultz.scripps.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://schultz.scripps.edu/</a>) but he is not actively involved in there day to day operations. In reality, if you want to work in biotech, the best thing to do is to go to a school that has a thriving industry around it (schools in the RTP, San Diego, Boston, SF, or Seattle) and get a job working there as a student.
I personally do not trust any academic degree in biotechnology that is not taught by faculty that have worked in industry because it is a completely different environment than academic research.</p>
<p>Many of these programs also fail to distinguish the basic types of biotech companies including suppliers and reagents companies (Invitrogen, Becton Dickinson, Promega), Diagnostics (Abbott, Roche, Molecular diag vs. antibody based), Biopharmaceutucals (Genentech, Amgen) and small molecular/chemical based entities (Major Pharma like Pfizer, Merck, etc).</p>
<p>Rank them overall kyle according to merit. Thanks</p>
<p>[Disclaimer: I go to JHU]</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bme.jhu.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bme.jhu.edu/</a>
<a href="http://inbt.jhu.edu/index.php%5B/url%5D">http://inbt.jhu.edu/index.php</a>
<a href="http://engineering.jhu.edu/%7Ecse-building/%5B/url%5D">http://engineering.jhu.edu/~cse-building/</a></p>
<p>I promise you there is no better place to do biotech right now than JHU. I haven't been anywhere else but this place is bursting with new discoveries. It's ranked as the #1 BME program for years now, the medical school is really research oriented and I heard on May 2nd they are planning to announce another biotech program at JHU.</p>
<p>There is more than adequate biotech industry academic contact in the Madison area and it is all within 15 minutes of campus. </p>