Establish and leverage an international collaborative research base to control infectious diseases

• Select and open an overseas local research center (including infectious disease testing facilities)
  • Select a local research center in Thailand to sign a research consignment contract and establish an international collaborative network through KOICID, under Inje university.
• Select and open additional overseas local human resource exchange centers to establish a human resource exchange network
  • Establish a human resource exchange network by concluding research consignment contracts with local research centers in Laos and Vietnam.
• Develop programs to support the operation of overseas local research centers
  • Identify where overseas local research centers currently stand and develop customized basic and clinical research programs.
  • Develop SOPs to support customized research on infectious diseases.

Establish an international collaborative research network for infectious diseases and manage human resource training programs

• Develop and manage basic and clinical training courses for overseas researchers
  • Secure training facilities (including those for practice courses) and accommodations for overseas researchers.
  • Hire trainers who can speak both English and their own local language and train and use them as professional instructors.
  • Finalize overseas researchers who would like to participate as trainees.
• Host international seminars
  • Hold every year between May and June in major cities, such as Jeju Island.
  • Invite consigned organizations carrying out research related to national/international infectious diseases as well as overseas contract partners.
  • Host seminars jointly with KOICID under Inje University.
• Plans on how to operate the overseas local research center, manage other research centers, and strengthen collaboration
  • Request a floorplan of the local center to plan training that takes best advantage of the function of each facility. Carry out regular due diligence to check local research centers.
  • Operate a flexible training program, e.g. short-term training programs that provide overseas lab tours and support for Korean researchers who require collaborative research at local research centers.

Expand support for customized research on infectious diseases

• CROs will conduct a survey to Korean customers (academia, pharma/bio and diagnostic device industry, and etc.), asking if they require any basic and/or clinical research related to inflowing overseas infectious diseases.
  • Develop and conduct a survey questionnaire that reflects the opinions of experts on Korea’s infectious diseases to find out if there is any demands for basic and/or clinical research related to infectious diseases in Korea.
  • Conduct an additional survey to find out if there are any demands also from the researchers at the overseas local research center and human resource exchange centers.
  • Establish strategies to develop customized research support programs for infectious diseases based on the results of Korean and overseas demand surveys.
• Continue exchanges by establishing a joint-alliance between the local research center and Korean CROs or building a branch office at the local center.
• Establish and operate plans to include local research centers in the support program for customized research on infectious diseases.
• Promote customized research to control infectious diseases by establishing collaboration among CROs, academia, pharma/bio industries, and to save cost.
  • Carry out collaborative research using local research labs such as national vaccine clinical research labs and overseas local research centers.