KIOST Animal Cell Culture Lab Awarded 'Best Safety Management Research Lab Certification' by Minister of Science and ICT

Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology Jeju Research Center.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The Animal Cell Culture Laboratory at the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) Jeju Special Research Center received a ministerial citation after being certified as an Excellent Safety Management Laboratory by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

At the ‘2022 Laboratory Safety Week’ event held on the 21st at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the safety management excellent laboratory certification system was conducted, where KIOST was selected as the ‘Best Certified Laboratory.’

The Excellent Safety Management Laboratory Certification System was established by the Ministry of Science and ICT to strengthen the safety management capabilities of laboratories in universities and research institutions. It is a system that grants certification to laboratories with outstanding safety management levels and activities to discover and spread standard models.

The Animal Cell Culture Laboratory at the KIOST Jeju Research Center was the first in Jeju Province to receive the Excellent Safety Management Laboratory certification in 2019 and was re-certified last year.

This time, only eight places nationwide, including the Animal Cell Culture Laboratory and Samsung Biologics Co., Ltd. Production Technology Research Center, received the highest certification, with only two being public institutions.

Since 2019, when three laboratories at the Jeju Research Center obtained the Excellent Safety Management Laboratory certification, one additional laboratory was certified in 2020, and three laboratories were re-certified in 2021, spreading safety awareness and laboratory safety culture. It has become a benchmarking target for universities and research institutions in Jeju Province.

So far, the Animal Cell Culture Laboratory has been performing functions that integrate technologies across bio fields to meet the needs of the bio-industry for solving social issues such as health and life safety. It has been evaluated as showing differentiation by carrying out projects that can promote functional materials, bio-preparation production, and carbon cycle economy integration through ONE-STEP technology development that can be produced in a virtuous cycle system.

In the future, this laboratory plans to provide new solutions in the bio-industry field by proving the excellence and differentiation of greenhouse gas reduction, added value enhancement, various import substitution effects, and functional activation effects using marine-derived raw materials.

Kang Do-hyung, director of the Jeju Research Center, said, “Taking the certification of the Animal Cell Culture Laboratory as an Excellent Safety Management Laboratory as an opportunity, we will spread and expand it as a model case to create a research culture where safety is prioritized at KIOST headquarters and branches, as well as universities and research institutions in the Jeju area.”

Director Kang added, “We will actively support all laboratories at the Jeju Research Center to improve to the highest level in safety management and continuously expand new excellent safety management laboratories.”

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