30 January 2020

Uzbekistan to establish Tashkent Pharma Park

Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a resolution “On the creation of an innovative scientific and production pharmaceutical cluster Tashkent Pharma Park”.

According to the document, the cluster will be created in the Qibray district, Tashkent region.

The cluster will consist of:

Technical Pharmaceutical University with its own infrastructure, including research centers and laboratories, educational research laboratories and a vivarium, a pharmacopeia center, a symposium center with a hotel, accommodation for students, teachers and foreign employees, a sports and fitness complex, a swimming pool and a stadium;

industrial zone, consisting of production facilities for the production of innovative drugs, medical devices and medical equipment.

“Preliminary agreement has been reached on creating a university with its own infrastructure by attracting long-term soft loans from the Government of the Republic of Korea through the Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF),” the document says.

The University will be engaged in the implementation of innovative and effective educational programs aimed at improving and modernizing the training system in the pharmaceutical industry.