Bioprocessing Courses and Certifications

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Plant Cell Bioprocessing

Master plant cell cultivation techniques, secondary metabolism, and bioreactor design for producing pharmaceuticals, bioplastics, and biopesticides through industrial biotechnology applications.

• YouTube
• 12 hours 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pilot Scale Fermentation | The Basics

Explore pilot scale fermentation: fermentation types, microbes, strain selection and growth stages, plus downstream harvesting, cell disruption, purification, and the tradeoffs of scaling up.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Industrial Bioprocess Development

345 ratings at Coursera

Trace an industrial bioprocess end to end: batch, fed-batch and continuous fermentation kinetics, media formulation, sterilization, bioreactor types, scale-up, and downstream processing.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

New Fermentation Markets and How They Scale

Explore how precision fermentation is reshaping food, beauty, and industrial materials markets, covering microbes, synthetic biology, feedstocks, and the challenges of scaling from lab to commercial production.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Advanced Food Analytical Techniques

Explores how fermentation, enzymes, and microbial applications support food production, processing, safety, preservation, and quality control.

• Swayam
• Available until Oct 12, 2026
• Free Online Course

IIT Madras;  NPTEL

Plant Cell Bioprocessing

Learn to develop and scale plant cell and tissue culture bioprocesses for commercial production of high-value phytochemicals.

• Swayam
• 8 weeks
• Not Currently Offered
• Free Online Course

Making Biologic Medicines for Patients: The Principles of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

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Learn how protein therapeutics are manufactured and explore the fundamental principles of biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Principles of Biomanufacturing: Using Biotechnology to Manufacture Medicines

Develop an integrated understanding of the creation of bio pharmaceuticals and how decisions made as early as product discovery can impact how a biologic is manufactured and delivered.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Not Currently Offered
• Free Certificate