Daily News | As Philly becomes a hub for life sciences, a new program will train workers for jobs in the field
, a cell therapy treatment for some forms of leukemia, are based on the work of Philadelphia scientists. Both received FDA approval in 2017.
Recruitment for the new program, which Wistar designed to specifically prepare individuals for jobs at Iovance, started Aug. 23 and runs through Friday. As of last Friday morning, 263 people had applied, according to the, which for a decade has been training Philadelphians for specific jobs at individual employers, such as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and SEPTA.
This is the first time WPSI and Wistar have worked together. Other supporters are the Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp. Tovinsky graduated from college with a degree in political science in 2008, when the economy collapsed and jobs were hard to find. She heard about the Wistar program in a science class at Community College of Philadelphia and saw it as a chance to fulfill her interest in science and leap from her job as a dog walker into a science career.
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