Chonbuk National Univ. pushes to establish pharmaceutical college

By Park Sae-jin Posted : June 12, 2015, 14:01 Updated : June 15, 2015, 16:44

 

This is the fifth and last in a series of articles on Chonbuk National University’s plan to take a second big leap forward. - ED.

Chonbuk National University (CBNU) has strengthened its competitiveness in R&D as well as education. It plans to establish a college of pharmacy and make it a R&D and convergence center. To this end, CBNU established not only a task force to push ahead with the plan but also a drug development research institute.

The reason why CBNU has strongly pushed to establish a pharmaceutical college is that it can be a blue ocean for life sciences, not to mention that it carries out its primary mission of raising pharmacists.

CBNU is equipped with solid R&D infrastructure in the fields of natural science, bio-agriculture, polymer/nano and chemical engineering, as well as medical science, dentistry and veterinary medicine. Those merits the school has will make it easy for its colleges and departments to cooperate each other, thus generating an enormous synergy effect.

The college of pharmacy, also a R&D center to develop new drugs, will become another CBNU brand that contributes to the strengthening of the school’s R&D competitiveness and upgrading of its status.

CBNU outpaces other universities in R&D competitiveness. The school has world-class research institutes, such as the High-enthalpy Plasma Research Center, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Korea Zoonosis Research Institute and the LED Agri-bio Fusion Technology Research Center.

The High-enthalpy Plasma Research Center, set up in Bongdong-up, Wanju County, is the first of its kind in Korea and the fifth in the world. The center has been stepping up efforts to develop technologies for the country's lunar probe mission scheduled for 2020. Established four years ago, the Los Alamos National Laboratory is the first of its kind in Asia. The laboratory has developed technologies to detect aircraft defects through laser beams. The Korea Zoonosis Research Institute carries out researches on avian influenza (AI), foot-and-mouth disease, brucellosis and mad cow disease. It is the largest zoonosis research institute in Asia.
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