Pharmaceutical Bio Association Holds 80th Anniversary Ceremony...Pharmaceutical BioVision 2030 Declaration and Future Hall Completion Ceremony

Oct 24, 2025

The 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio Association was held with great success.

The association, which was launched as the Chosun Pharmaceutical Industry Association in 1945, looked back on 80 years of challenge and innovation at the ceremony and vowed to take a great leap forward for the next 100 years.

At the ceremony held at the association hall in Bangbae-dong, Seoul on the 24th, following a time to commemorate senior pharmaceutical workers who laid the foundation for the industry, they screened promotional videos containing 80 years of history and future vision to reflect on the past 80 years. He then thanked those who contributed to the commemorative project and contributed to the development of new drugs, industry-academic cooperation, and publication of publications for their dedication. Cho Wook-je, chairman of the Public Relations and Compilation Committee, dedicated to the 13th Chairman Kim Seung-ho '80 Years of the Korea Pharmaceutical Bio Association' which contains the footsteps of the industry and the association.

At the 'Pharmaceutical Bio Vision 2030 Declaration Ceremony', Lee Kwan-soon, chairman of the Future Vision Committee, announced specific implementation strategies and tasks to achieve the vision and proceeded with the declaration with the participants. Through this vision declaration, the association presented a concrete roadmap for realizing a K-pharmaceutical bio powerhouse and expressed a strong commitment to the future leap forward of the industry.

Chairman Noh Yeon-hong said in his commemorative speech that in October 1945, the Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio Association, which took the first step to protect the public's health amid the chaos of Korea's liberation, celebrated 80 years of history"I expressed my feelings. Chairman Roh said, "The rapid development of advanced technologies, including AI, is fundamentally changing the paradigm of the pharmaceutical bio industry, which is a new challenge and opening the door to opportunities for all of us."The association will support strengthening the industry's AI-based new drug development capabilities centered on the AI New Drug Research Institute and actively respond to the huge trend of change.

Chairman Yoon Woong-seop said in his welcoming speech that `The pioneers' sense of duty to protect the health of the people has been firmly rooted and rooted for 80 years, and we are finally facing an era of fruit." Chairman Yoon said, "The association will lead the pharmaceutical bio industry based on a strong self-compliance management system and strict ethics and compliance."We will ensure that the pharmaceutical bio industry is firmly established as a key growth engine for the Korean economy, emphasizing " he said.

In the second part, the completion ceremony of the annex 'Future Hall', which was built with a budget of about 2 billion won, was held. The future hall, which symbolizes the new leap forward of the industry, has a four-story piloti structure on the first floor and a 389.57㎡ (117.84 pyeong) floor, with smart offices, AI New Drug Research Institute and AI New Drug Development Autonomous Laboratory (SDL). At the ceremony, the company announced plans to build an autonomous laboratory for AI new drug development, which is scheduled to be fully operated in December. After the completion ceremony of the Future Hall, participants had time to look around the exhibition hall and the Future Hall on the first floor of the main building, which had been remodeled.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.