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Center for Vaccine Research Center(KVRC)

Update

2026-03-13

About KVRC

The R&D of vaccines and support

Secure both the capability to supply essential vaccines to the citizens and
a support system that will lead the vaccine industry as a major national growth engine

Secure core resources and technologies for developing vaccines to promote self-sufficiency of vaccines

  • Secure core technologies of developing vaccines fast for national security in the event of an infectious disease disaster
  • Secure various vaccine candidates to vitalize domestic vaccine development led by the government

Secure the capability of developing public vaccines for public safety and health

  • Secure the capability of developing public vaccines that require urgent self-sufficiency, then lead the development of top-priority vaccines
  • Support cooperation in the development of the second-priority vaccine that the private sector is reluctant to develop
  • Top Priority vaccine: 3rd generation smallpox, tuberculosis for adolescents and adults, SFTS, pandemic infectious diseases, etc.
  • 2nd priority vaccine: mumps, Japanese encephalitis, hepatitis A, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, whooping cough, infectious disease designated by WHO, unsolved infectious disease, etc.
  • WHO 10 NEXT Infectious Diseases: Marburg disease, Rift Valley Fever, Ebola, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Monkey Smallpox, Lassa fever, Nipah Virus, SARS, MERS, Zika

Support for facilities and efficacy evaluation system to promote vaccine R&D and commercialization

  • Provide infrastructure such as “effectiveness evaluation service for vaccines under development” and high-risk biosafety facilities which can secure competitiveness by evaluating and guaranteeing the effectiveness of vaccine candidates

Propose the direction of policies through taking the role of control tower on public vaccine R&D

  • Perform the role of a control tower for developing vaccines and its commercialization through cooperation between the government (Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Ministry of Industry, etc.) and the private sector
  • Link and support the industry so that vaccine materials secured through the R&D can be actually produced.

Visions and Goal

  • vision

    Promoting Korean public vaccines, and securing a rapid development support system to respond to public health crises caused by emerging infectious diseases
  • goal

    • Promoting Korean public vaccines (4 types secured by 2027 in clinical phase 2):

      1 type in phase 2 clinical trials ('22) → 4 types ('27)

    • Securing rapid core platform technologies such as mRNA:

      2 types (’22) → 15 types (’27)

    • Establishing a vaccine library for new infectious diseases:

      progress rate 0% (‘22) → 100% (’27)

    • Expanding registered pathogen resources:

      Registered resources 7,000 shares (’22) → 13,000 shares (’27)

  • strategy

    Focused promotion
    assignment

    • Strengthening the role of the control tower for
      rapid vaccine development and support

      • 1

        Establishing and managing strategies for national vaccine research and development

      • 2

        Establishing and operating a rapid vaccine development and support system to respond to crises

      • 3

        Securing key and new technologies for vaccine development

      • 4

        Establishing a vaccine library (advanced vaccine technology center) and discovering antigens rapidly (antigen design)

      • 5

        Establishing an immunological surveillance system to respond to pandemics (Korean PREMISE)

    • Strategic development of
      public vaccines

      • 1

        Developing a new infectious disease vaccines

      • 2

        Developing a national vaccination vaccines

      • 3

        Developing a public security vaccines

      • 4

        Developing vaccines for unresolved infectious diseases

    • Strengthening support for the entire clinical and
      non-clinical cycle of vaccine development

      • 1

        Strengthening non-clinical evaluation and support

      • 2

        Establishing and operating a (non-)clinical trial and sample analysis institute network

      • 3

        Strengthening vaccine-related clinical and immunological research

      • 4

        Strengthening the collection, management and utilization of pathogen resources

    • Strengthening the public- private international
      cooperation system

      • 1

        Cooperation in establishing a rapid production system (cooperation with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE))

      • 2

        Participation in establishing a non-clinical efficacy evaluation support system (cooperation with the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT)

      • 3

        Support for rapid approval work (cooperation with the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS))

      • 4

        Expansion of joint global research (cooperation with international organizations/overseas institutions)

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