King Abdullah International Medical Research Center


King Abdullah International Medical Research Center is an international institute of biomedical and clinical research. It was launched on 11 November 2006 with the approval of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. The center is part of the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs and is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with campuses in Jeddah and Al-Ahsa.

Achievements

KAIMRC was awarded accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs on July 3, 2023. The center has also started a Phase I clinical trial for a vaccine against the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in collaboration with the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford.