Bachelor of ScienceBiotechnology

Biotech focuses on the manipulation of living organisms, their products, and their processes to further knowledge, improve quality of life, and engineer new tools and applications.

Biotechnology is applied to a broad range of industries including the pharmaceutical, chemical, agricultural, food development and manufacturing sectors, to name a few. Biotechnology has improved the fields of medicine, health, environmental science and technology, and will continue to in the future.

Program Goals

Graduates of the Biotechnology program are able to:

• Demonstrate a broad range of basic laboratory skills and technical competencies applicable to the field of biotechnology and to the workplace;
• Develop a broad understanding of foundational concepts, mechanisms and principles which can be applied across the fields of applied biotechnology, molecular and microbial biotechnology, food biotechnology, and nanotechnology;
• Demonstrate scientific reasoning and critical thinking skills including the ability to evaluate and integrate multiple sources of information, recognize problems, evaluate data, and draw conclusions;
• Model independent and collaborative work environments in the classroom, the laboratory, the field and the workplace;
• Demonstrate the successful ability to communicate scientific information to a variety of audiences and incorporate multiple modes of technology to achieve that goal; and,
• Connect the classroom to the world of work through multi-modal and interdisciplinary learning experiences.

Program Concentrations

• Food Safety and Quality Assurance
  • BTEC 210, BTEC 370, BTEC 405
• General Biotechnology
  • BTEC 170, BTEC 350, BTEC 351
• Medical Biotechnology
  • BTEC 250, BTEC 401, BTEC 311
• Nanobiotechnology
  • BTEC 100, BTEC 220, BTEC 401
• Nanobiotechnology and NanoFabrication
  • BTEC 100, NANO 211, NANO, 212, NANO 213, NANO 214, NANO 215, NANO 216
• Pharmaceutical Design
  • BTEC 311, BTEC 435

Interested in a medical career? HU Biotechnology and Integrative Science majors offer programs that set you up for success in medical, veterinary or pharmacy school. You can tailor our programs in Integrative Sciences and Biotechnology to meet the exact requirements of your chosen health professional school. Plus, the experiential learning you’ll gain through the HU academic program can help you score a health-based internship or complete a medically based applied project that will help smooth the way for your entrance into a health professional school.

Capital Area Biotechnology Partnership: HU plays a leadership role in the Capital Area Biotechnology Partnership (CABP). Working with educators and other leaders from Central Pennsylvania’s area biotech firms, government agencies, industry, local community colleges, and area school districts, CABP delivers a quality education to high school and college students, and science career-seekers. Courses taught through the program prepare area students to enter the biotech workforce, thereby decreasing the time companies need to train employees and ensuring biotech firms have access to qualified workers.

Program Lead

Mrunalini (Leena) Pattarkine, Ph.D. Professor of Biotechnology

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Corporate Faculty

Indu Sinha

Corporate Faculty (BIOT)

• isinha@harrisburgu.edu

Anna Reeves

Corporate Faculty (GEND)

• areeves@harrisburgu.edu

Sushil K Gupta, Ph.D.

Corporate Faculty (BTMS)

• SGupta2@HarrisburgU.edu