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Vol.20_ Newsletter - Korea's First "Green Vaccine Demonstration Support...

2022-04-05 15:42:52

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Korea's first "Green Vaccine Demonstration Support Center" opens in Pohang Fusion Tech District

Korea's first "Green Vaccine Demonstration Support Center" established in the Pohang Fusion Tech District has begun full-scale operation since March this month to support animal plant vaccines and related companies.

Plant vaccines are vaccines produced based on plant or plant cells, and have the advantage of being able to produce them faster and more economically than traditional methods that cultivate and utilize fertilized eggs or animal cells.
In 2014, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Planning and Evaluation selected it as a promising core technology in the future.
Currently, research on vaccines for infectious diseases, pet treatments, and human rare disease treatments is being conducted around the world using plant vaccine technology, and research is actively underway to produce growth factor proteins used in high-value cosmetics or stem cell culture.
Considering this environment, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs selected the Pohang Fusion Tech District of DGFEZ as the target site for the "Building a Green Vaccine Demonstration Support Center" project.
The Green Vaccine Demonstration Support Center, which invested 17.7 billion won in total project costs, wiith a total floor area of 4,695㎡, it is equipped with animal vaccine production facilities, plant factories, and animal efficacy evaluation facilities using plants.

Companies such as BioApp Co., Ltd., Toolgen Co., Ltd., and G+ Life Sciences Co., Ltd. will move into the center in Pohang Fusion Tech District, and will try to develop plant vaccine source technology as well as plant-based protein drugs and functional materials.