The Vaccine Innovation Center, Korea University's College of Medicine successfully held the 2025 Vaccine Expert Training Program

The Vaccine Innovation Center, Korea University's College of Medicine Successfully Held the 2025 Vaccine Expert Training Program 

 

From January 14th to the 17th, the Vaccine Innovation Center (Director Cheong Hee-Jin) of Korea University's College of Medicine successfully held the "2025 Vaccine Expert Training Program" at the International Remote Conference Room, Centennial Memorial Samsung Hall of Korea University. The program was held for 4 days and a total of around 380 experts and attendees from difference areas joined the event.

 

The Vaccine Expert Training Program has been conducted by the Vaccine Innovation Center since 2023. This year, the program consists of the mRNA Vaccine R&D Intensive course and the Vaccine Clinical Trial Intensive course. This year's program actively participated with domestic researchers contributing to the development and production of a domestic mRNA vaccine, which has been highlighted as a national task after the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Dean Pyun Sung-Bom stated, "After COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that R&D for vaccines is the most important task for all of us. Vaccines are now the most critical key to solve the global infectious disease health crisis." He further added, "I hope this training program would be an opportunity for our domestic researchers to improve themselves and actively react to the possible new breed of infectious diseases in the future."

 

Director Cheong Hee-Jin said, "Tthis vaccine expert training program will be the very important foundation for the future of Korean vaccine R&D. The Vaccine Innovation Center will continue our utmost efforts to foster the domestic vaccine R&D experts, while advancing beyond the basic vaccine researches to promote the development of commercially available vaccines."

 

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