Northwest Ohio’s life sciences industry is hiring. Are your students ready?

BioPathways Northwest Ohio | May 7, 2026 | Bowling Green State University

Ohio’s life sciences sector spans nearly 5,000 companies and employs 64,000 people statewide. Northwest Ohio is part of that ecosystem. The jobs are there. The question is whether students can see the path from classroom to career, and whether their teachers have the tools to show them.

That’s the problem BioPathways was designed to solve.

Nathan Snedeker teaches biology in Plain City. He knows the science. His students work through DNA extraction, protein synthesis, cell structure. The content is rigorous. But content alone doesn’t build career readiness.

“We have so many kids who don’t know what opportunities are there,” Nathan said. “They have an interest in science, and they have an idea of where they can go, but that idea isn’t clear enough for them to actually know what the steps are.”

BioPathways fills that gap with direct industry access and curriculum that mirrors real workforce applications.

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