National-Level Management of Pathogen Resources... KDCA Establishes 2023 Implementation Plan

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency's National Institute of Health announced on the 10th that it has established and published the "2023 Pathogen Resource Management Implementation Plan" for the national management of domestic pathogen resources.

The National Pathogen Resource Bank, the national responsible institution for pathogen resources, collects pathogens with preservation value and distributes them for use by researchers and the healthcare industry.

This implementation plan consists of three key strategies and seven promotion tasks related to the collection, management, and distribution utilization of pathogen resources. The number of resources in the national preservation management list will be expanded from approximately 3,000 strains in 2020 to about 13,000 strains by 2025. The pathogen resource collection network and the annual number of distributed resources will be increased from 7 to 10 and from 1,400 strains to 4,000 strains, respectively.

The National Institute of Health stated, "Through the implementation plan for the systematic execution of pathogen resource collection, management, and distribution activation, it is expected that the provision of source materials for the development of diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics against new, variant, and imported infectious diseases will be activated, thereby strengthening the development of the healthcare industry for infectious disease response and securing sovereignty over pathogen resources."

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