KIT is establishing an environmental toxicity testing center to international standards in the city of Jinju of Gyeongnam province to actively respond to global environmental regulations along with EU REACH enforcement. KIT Jinju Environmental Toxicology Research Center that will move into ‘Bio 21’ the cutting edge bio cluster complex in downtown Jinju, occupying 8,264 m2 out of a total of 26,500 m2. Also, KIT Jinju Environmental Toxicology Research center is investing over 30 billion wons in this project to be completed in 2011. The Center will be outfitted with installations and equipments that can perform analysis of chemical ingredients such as agro-chemicals and residual agro-chemicals, radioisotope testing, soil testing, microorganism dissolution and bio concentration testing, toxicity evaluation in fish, water fleas and avians extrapolating to the effect on the human body and environment. Moreover, with its capability to offer cutting edge toxicity evaluation services including toxicity screening, alternative toxicity technique and toxicity estimation technique along with general toxicity studies required in the process of development of substances such as various pharmaceuticals and health supplements, the center will be a critical player in domestic bio-medicine development and research.

• Construction | 2009~2011
• Construction Scale | Total area 26,500 m2 / Building area 8,264 m2
• Major Facilities | Environmental chemistry testing facility
  Ecotoxicology testing facility
  Radioisotope laboratory
  Analytical laboratory
  Toxicity testing (rodents) facility
  Gene toxicity laboratory

※ Bio Composite Business Support Center (sponsored by the City of Jinju)

• Construction Scale | Site area 9,900 m2 / Building area 3,300 m2 (basement 1 story / ground 3 story)
• Major Facilities | Research support facilities (small to medium conference rooms, instrument analysis rooms,
  visitor accommodation facilities)

• Contribute to improving national competitiveness by meeting the requirements of toxicity evaluation studies and testing standards related to domestic and overseas industrial chemicals and agro-chemicals, and accelerating the development of new medicines.
• Establish itself as a critical national infrastructure to provide services to domestic industries, universities, research institutes and government organizations by focusing on alternative toxicity, anticipation toxicity, biological agents analysis and ADME tests.

• Provide all the tests required by REACH, including eco-toxicity testing, environmental chemistry and physico-chemical properties testing, and improving the competitiveness as an international environmental toxicology evaluation organization

• Develop alternative toxicity test techniques
• Develop toxicity anticipation and evaluation techniques

• Develop in vivo and in vitro evaluation techniques
• Evaluation and analysis of chemicals using radioisotope
• In vitro enteric membrane absorption anticipation techniques
• Chemicals and bio specimen analysis techniques
• PK/PD modeling techniques

• Devise development plans based on the concept of R&BD (Research & Business Development), Establish implementation strategies for market analysis, approval and registration