Chicago Area Bioinformatics Training Program Gets $100K State Boost

[GenomeWeb Daily News - September 21, 2007]

By a GenomeWeb staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - The Chicago Technology Park has gained a
$100,000 grant from the State of Illinois to continue to develop its
Bioinformatics Training Certificate Program (BiTmaP), a bioinformatics
training curriculum, BiTmaP said this week.

The program is supported by a $6 million a grant from the US Department of
Labor, the Illinois Medical District, the University of Illinois at Chicago
and ³other local partners.²

BiTmaP, which is part of a larger state effort called the Biotech Training
Investment Program, so far has enrolled 160 students and has 47 graduates.

³By targeting these workforce training grants within this critical sector,
we are helping bioscience companies become more competitive and creating
more high-paying, high-tech Illinois jobs,² Illinois governor Rod
Blagojevich said in a statement.

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