South Korea
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South Korea
International Vaccine Institute
SNU Research Park
Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu
Seoul, 08826 Korea
The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is the world’s only international organization devoted exclusively to developing and introducing new and improved vaccines to protect the world’s poorest people, especially children in developing countries. Established in 1997, IVI operates as an independent international organization under a treaty signed by 35 countries and the World Health Organization. The Institute conducts research in more than 20 countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America on vaccines against enteric and diarrheal infections, Japanese encephalitis, MERS-CoV, and dengue fever, and develops new and improved vaccines at its headquarters in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Center Director: Dr. Jerome Kim
Center for Infectious Diseases Research, Korea National Institute of Health
187, Osongsaengmyeong2-ro, Osong-eup, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28159, Republic of Korea
Established in 1963, the Korea National Institute of Health is the only national public health research institution, producing scientific evidence to shape public health policies in Korea. KNIH leads research on viral and bacterial infectious diseases, non-communicable, rare diseases and human genome research. The Center for Infectious Disease Research, (CID) is responsible for researches on infectious diseases caused by viral and bacterial pathogens with four primary goals: (1) to enhance the national capacity responding to infectious disease threats, (2) to conduct research controlling emerging, acute/chronic infectious diseases, efficiently (3) to perform infectious diseases research impacted by climate change, (4) to establish national and international networks through infectious disease studies, (5) to establish and operate the National Vaccine Research Center and (6) to collect and manage Korean human pathogen resources. We conduct intra/extramural PhD and M.Sc. expert virology research projects. CID performs: influenza, human immunodeficiency (HIV), respiratory, (MERS-CoV), enteric and vector-borne virus research; HIV-AIDS, hepatitis B and C and HPV cohort studies.
Center Director: Dr. YoungMee Jee
Member Researchers:
Division of Viral Disease Research: Kisoon Kim, Byung-Sun Choi, Mi-Kyoung Ki, Jang-Hun Choi, Chul-Hee Yoon, YoungHyun Shin
Division of Emerging Infectious Disease and Vector Research: Joo-Yeon Lee, Kyung-Chang Kim, Jung-Sun Yang, Hee-Young Lim, Sang-Mu Shim, Hansaem Lee
Division of Vaccine Research: Jung-Kyoung Tae, Jung-Sik Yoo, Mi-Young Kim, Jun-Woo Lee, Jung-Ah Lee, Young-Sil Choi, Hyang-Min Jung, Soo-Yeon Kim