. Four lucky Durham Technical Community College students will soon pioneer a bold new apprenticeship program with Durham-based KBI Biopharma designed to groom more workers for pharmaceutical manufacturing. The apprenticeship program announced today opens a Triangle-based jobs development partnership that is expected to serve as a model for the North Carolina Community College System’s statewide ApprenticeshipNC Program. The project also targets military veterans who might not recognize they have skills and experience that can transfer well into job openings in the life sciences – especially in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. KBI Biopharma is a biopharmaceutical contract development manufacturing organization (CDMO) that provides accelerated drug development and biomanufacturing services to help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies globally advance their vaccine and therapeutic programs. It’s an affiliate company of JSR Life Sciences, a business unit of Tokyo-based JSR Corp.