Gyeongbuk Bio Industry Expo Opens... Pohang City Leads Future Food Source 'Bio' Industry

Enhancing Pohang's Status as a Leading Bio City and Boosting Local Bio Industry

Programs Including International Symposium, Conference, Expo, and Investment Consultation

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Pohang City held the ‘2023 Gyeongbuk Bio Industry Expo’ on the 7th to explore strategies for revitalizing the bio industry and to create a platform for joint development among industry, academia, research, and government for fostering the local bio industry.

Gyeongbuk Bio Industry Expo Opens.

Under the theme ‘Bio Technology, Toward a Better Tomorrow,’ this year’s Gyeongbuk Bio Industry Expo runs from the 7th to the 9th at Pohang Change-up Ground and POSCO International Hall, featuring various programs to exchange the latest information on the bio industry.

Now in its second year, the Gyeongbuk Bio Industry Expo is hosted by Pohang City and Gyeongbuk Province, with the Gyeongbuk Technopark as the main organizer. Other participants include Pohang Technopark, POSTECH Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Daegu Haany University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Gumi Electronics and Information Technology Institute, Gyeongbuk Bio Industry Research Institute, and the East Sea Industrial Research Institute.

Starting with an opening ceremony on the 7th that includes a keynote speech and business agreements, the event spans three days with exhibitions, an international symposium and conference, and corporate investment and export consultations, offering a diverse lineup to showcase achievements in the bio industry and glimpse its future vision.

At the opening ceremony, Luke P. Lee, a professor at Harvard Medical School in the United States and the keynote speaker, delivered a lecture titled ‘The Vision of K-Biotechnology,’ introducing approaches to enhance human health through preventive precision medicine, which received enthusiastic responses from the audience.

Prior to the keynote speech, a total of 14 organizations, including Pohang City, Gyeongbuk Province, the Korea Animal Pharmaceutical Association, Pohang Technopark, BioApp, JinCell Biotech, and J-Curve Investment, signed a mutual business agreement (MOU) to foster the advanced animal pharmaceutical industry, establishing regulations and a cooperative framework to promote the domestic advanced animal pharmaceutical sector.

During the ‘2023 Gyeongbuk Bio Industry Expo,’ various conferences aimed at exploring strategies to activate the national advanced strategic bio industry are also held over three days at POSCO International Hall.

These include the ‘5th Accelerator-Based New Drug Development International Symposium’ for industrializing structure-based new drug development technologies, and the ‘2023 Green Bio Industry International Conference’ discussing the activation of the green bio industry and international cooperation measures. In total, 80 prominent domestic and international experts participate as presenters across 15 topics in 7 fields, delivering in-depth presentations and discussions on various bio industry sectors.

Additionally, at Change-up Ground during the event, over 70 bio companies and institutions from across the country showcase prototypes and exhibits, providing unique experiential opportunities.

On the 8th, an investment and export consultation meeting involving domestic and international investors will be held at Change-up Ground. This aims to support investment consultations for companies with excellent technologies, offering opportunities for market expansion and overseas advancement of products and services.

Mayor Lee Kang-deok stated, “I hope the Gyeongbuk Bio Industry Expo will showcase Pohang City’s excellent bio infrastructure and industry capabilities, enhancing the status of Pohang as a leading bio city.” He added, “We will steadily advance local related projects such as establishing a research-centered medical school to take a step closer to realizing bio national security.”

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