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| Title | Korea CQ- International Vaccine Institute | ||||
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| Posted by | webmaster | Hit | 2000 | Date | 2013.10.22 |
Dear
Korea CQ members
I
hope you are having a great day in spite of chilly
weather.
WIth
the invitation by Christian Loucq, Director General of IVI, Korea CQ 16 members
had a visit to the International Vaccine Institute, the first international
vaccine organization headquarter in Korea, funded by the Bill Gates
Foundation.
Kim
Kwiyeon, Park Heesung, Sung Jaechul, Lee Jaiwook, Lim Hyang Ok, Choi Jungwha,
Didier Beltoise, Beatrice Dierckx, Samia Mounts, Christophe Piganiol, and
special guest, architect Jung Tainam, Kim Jisoo from Korea Times and Philip
Iglauer from Korea Herald joined the tour.
IVI
has beautiful sceneries- it is surrounded by Mt.
Gwanak.
Chrisitan
Loucq and the scientist team from IVI warmly welcomed our
members.
We
enjoyed Champagne and cocktails in the "test tubes" made by the IVI
staffs.
After
having a box dinner, we had a small celebration for Choi
Jungwha’s birthday! We enjoyed her
birthday cake and enjoyed rice
cake, and cookies prepared by IVI.
Then
we headed for a Lab tour wearing the personalized lab coat specially prepared by
IVI.
We
visited the influenza vaccine development lab, the growing a bacterium &
virus lab and then moved to the auditorium.
Mr.
Christian Loucq gave us a speech about what his institution does (discover,
develop and deliver vaccines for the developing nations.) and the scientists
team gave us presentations on the country investment in
vaccines.
We
would like to thank Mr. Loucq for his generous
invitation.
We
are now more educated having somewhat a deeper understanding of vaccine and
science.
To
see pictures of October 15, please click the link
below
Thank
you.
Sincere
yours,
Jean
Kim |
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