GE Healthcare enhances its training portfolio

GE Healthcare is helping to improve understanding of the biopharma process through a series of customised training courses tailored to match the specific training needs of businesses.

The new courses are an extension of the New Jersey-based company's Fast Trak Training and Education programme offering.

The new courses can be held on-site at the customer's facilities to reduce travel costs and extend the training opportunity to all relevant employees in one session.

Fast Trak sessions are typically run over two to five days and provide insight into many important aspects of biopharmaceutical processes. Customers can discuss their specific training needs with GE Healthcare bioprocess experts and select from a wide variety of topics including downstream processing, technology transfer, column packing, chromatography, filtration, process optimisation and scale-up. The courses are objective, not commercially oriented, and integrate theory and practice with a high ratio of instructors and instruments to trainees.

Darcy Birse, global head of training & education at GE Healthcare in Piscataway, said: "Travel time and costs can be sometimes be an issue for our customers when considering training and education courses. Our extended offering aims to help our customers to overcome these drawbacks, while ensuring that the course content is tailored exactly to employee needs."

The Fast Trak Training and Education offering from GE Healthcare is now in its 20th year and provides a learning experience for process development and manufacturing scientists, staff scientists and engineers, plant operators and support staff.

Fast Trak Training and Education provides global support with state-of-the-art training facilities in USA, Germany, China and India.