Top leader visits Ireland's National Institute for Bioprocessing Research & Training

The top Vietnamese leader showed his impression with the institute's modern facilities, professional working environment, and achievements in training and research.

He stated that biotechnology in Vietnam has already been widely applied across multiple sectors, including health care, agriculture, food, industry, energy, and the environment. Among these, the pharmaceutical sector is seeing the fastest development and has the largest market size, as it deals with emerging infectious diseases.

He underlined Vietnam’s two main objectives in biotechnology, which are to develop into a globally recognized biotechnology hub and a leading centre for biotechnology production and smart services in Asia, and to build the sector into a key economic and technical industry with a considerable contribution to the country's GDP.

To Lam voiced his hope that Vietnam and Ireland will step up biotechnology research cooperation in pharmaceuticals to serve public health care, with a particular focus on next-generation vaccine technology and the diagnosis and treatment of emerging, re-emerging, and zoonotic diseases.

He emphasized the need to promote joint research programmes and training initiatives between both sides’ institutes, universities, and scientists, with the national institute of Ireland playing a key role in ramping up this collaboration.