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The Division of Bioinfrastructure of KRIBB (hereafter referred to as the Infra Division; Director of Division, Sang-Rae Lee), which is in charge of establishing and managing the public infrastructure of bioresearch resources, held a signboard ceremony at the headquarters of KRIBB, situated in the city of Daejeon on February 12, to celebrate the designation in January 2018 as a national ‘Biological Resource Center’ by the Ministry of Science and ICT (hereafter referred to as MSIT; Minister, Young Min You).
The Infra Division of KRIBB collected information of all biological resources obtained from seven resource banks, officially designated by MSIT for the past three years to establish the advanced bioResource Information System. The division was officially designated as a ‘Biological Resource Research Center of MSIT,’ prior to its operation, to strengthen the utility of biological resources for bioengineering research. As of January 2018, ARIS counted a total of 37,555 species and 1,857,747 registered biological resources, including animals, plants, microorganisms, and human-derived materials.
This signboard ceremony was particularly important because the division designated a total of four official titles, including the existing three (Biological Resource Bank for Biological Research, Biological Resource Agency, Center for Biological Research Outcome Management and Distribution, and Biological Resource Research Center of MSIT)
The Infra Division of KRIBB consists of a total of eight centers – Biological Resource Center, Laboratory Animal Resource Center, Bio-Evaluation Center, National Primate Research Center, Primate Resource Center, Futuristic Animal Resource & Research Center, International Biological Material Research Center, and ABS Research Support Center – striving to reinforce the national competitiveness in biological research through biological research and development of infrastructures and resources.
Dr. Sang-Rae Lee, Branch Director of KRIBB Ochang Branch Institute and Director of the National Primate Research Center of the Infra Division, expressed his gratitude saying, “I truly appreciate the unconditional efforts and passion that every member of our division has dedicated to the establishment of this information center.” He added, “This signing ceremony gives us another reason to exert every effort to successfully fulfill our role as a national agency.”