Eli Lilly Offers Perfect Partnership for Osbourn Park Biotech Students
Osbourn Park High School and Eli Lilly and Company, one of the nation’s leaders in pharmaceuticals, celebrated an exciting new educational partnership at a signing ceremony held on Wednesday, January 25 at 9 a.m. in the school library. Osbourn Park serves as home to Prince William County Schools’ Biotechnology program, making this new partnership with Eli Lilly “a perfect match,” according to Larry Nemerow, Biotechnology Center coordinator. “The benefit to our students is so far-reaching. These kids are going to work with scientists that are working now on what was being discovered yesterday and our teachers will be learning the newest discoveries right along with them.”
The partnership will offer junior and senior biotech students weekly mentoring, give hands-on science lab assistance in Advanced Placement Biology and Advanced Placement Chemistry, provide exposure to career exploration in the biotech field, and other opportunities for involvement. The company will also provide funds to upgrade equipment for the school’s biotechnology program, to Partnership Prince William, and for the School Division’s elementary school reading program and new teacher retention program.
Eli Lilly’s new 300,000 square foot insulin manufacturing facility, currently under construction on Innovation Loop near the Prince William campus of George Mason University, is expected to be completed by the end of this year. “We are honored to be a part of this partnership. The enthusiasm of the Osbourn Park staff and students has been so impressive, it is contagious for those of us at Lilly,” commented René Bernadac, General Manager of Lilly’s Prince William facility.
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