About us

The Canadian Advanced Therapies Training Institute (CATTI) was created to efficiently and rapidly upskill the biomanufacturing workforce required in Canada and internationally. CATTI aims to:

Bridge the gap between the academic background qualifications and the industry readiness of HQP (job-specific roles)
Standardize the training curriculum for the needs of manufacturing sites to establish a quality standard for training, focused on best practices
De-risk the process of training & developing HQP to the level of autonomy
Reduce the training burden shared by all manufacturing sites by outsourcing it
Diminish the funds allocated for training per employee by maximizing efficiency

The Training Institute is led by a Consortium of two (2) highly successful Networks of Centers of Excellence in Canada, one being CCRM, a Center of Excellence for the Commercialization of Research, and CellCAN, a Knowledge Mobilization Network. Their interest in joining efforts rely on the facts that manufacturing and commercializing CGT products requires a highly qualified workforce and that there is currently a dearth in finding such qualified personnel. A unique opportunity exists to leverage the strengths and synergies between those two well recognized organizations to contribute substantially to growing the cell and gene therapy sector. This partnership will solidify national assets and excellence in advanced biotherapeutics manufacturing under cGMP, and fill the dearth in available talent of HQP trained and qualified for workflow under aseptic conditions. It will also ensure job creation.

Our virtual courses (asynchronous and live) cover fundamental knowledge on a wide variety of topics like Good Manufacturing Practices, Quality Management Systems, Good Documentation Practices, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Quality Control and many more. Our 5-days hands-on bootcamps include Aseptic Techniques & Cell Culture (using MSCs, iPSCs,…) and Quality Control and Microbiology. We also offer company-specific onboarding training (2-5 weeks). Our training provides the skills needed to translate and perform technical work in a cGMP manufacturing environment. Throughout the training, participants are closely evaluated by our experienced trainers. An assessment report and certificate of completion is provided at the end of the training process.