On March 6, the Kookmin University Biohealth Material Production Process Innovation Human Resource Development Center (Director Prof. In-Hyung Lee and Vice Director Prof. Hyun-Yeol Choi) held a VLOG award ceremony for the best VLOGs of the GMP field training program held by the Biohealth Industry Convergence Major hosted by the Center. Among the 20 students who participated in the training, the team of Yoon Ga-young and Jin Yuri won the first prize and Kang Kyung-jin and Kim Su-hwan won the second prize. 

Kookmin Bio Field Trip and Awards Ceremony 

The GMP on-site practical training was held from January 29 to February 2 at the Kookmin Bio (CEO Sung Moon-hee) Practicalization Center located in Wanggung-myeon Food Park, Iksan-si, Jeollabuk-do, and the participating students had the opportunity to acquire practical knowledge on the structure of GMP manufacturing workshops and how to manage the use of GMP production-related equipment, as well as various statistics, patents, and SOPs required by companies. The GMP field training was part of the curriculum of the bio-industrial production practice course in the bio-health industry convergence major, which was advanced during the vacation period to ensure continuous and sufficient practice time for participating students, and additional theoretical training is currently underway through the bio-industrial production practice course in the first semester of 2024. 

According to the project team, the GMP field training in collaboration with Kookmin Bio has been established as an excellent educational program that elicits the highest satisfaction among the various educational programs offered by the Biohealth Industry Convergence Major, according to the students' satisfaction survey. 

In addition to the GMP field training, the biohealth industry convergence major also promoted the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Bioinformatics field training in collaboration with Senigen, a bioinformatics-based food hygiene and safety innovation company, through the BioBig Data course in the second semester of the 2023 academic year.

Senigen Field Trip

"We will continue to actively connect with companies in the biohealth industry to further strengthen the practical education capabilities of the biohealth industry convergence major," said Dr. Lee In-hyung.

Kookmin University's Biohealth Material Production Process Innovation Talent Development Center provides a practical curriculum in the field of biohealth material development and production based on artificial intelligence-based customized production technology and environmental and social sustainability technologies to foster undergraduate student talent, and trains and graduates human resources specialized in cell culture, biotransformation, separation and purification, quality control, GMP, and related legal and regulatory tasks that will be in explosive demand in the future.