History

2026

July Held the 2026 Center for Precision Medicine Workshop, “Next-Generation Precision Oncology 2.0”
July Hongseok Yun appointed as the 5th Director of the Center for Precision Medicine
March Held the first SNUH POLARIS Steering Committee meeting

2025

December Held the 2025 SNUH–SNUBH Symposium on Clinical Genomic Medicine
May Held the launch ceremony for SNUH POLARIS
May Launched the SNUH POLARIS–HIS integrated service

2024

December Held the 2024 SNUH Symposium on Clinical Genomic Medicine

2023

December SNUH POLARIS officially selected as the name of the Precision Medicine Knowledge Base
December Held the 2023 SNUH Symposium on Clinical Genomic Medicine
September Held the 2023 Center for Precision Medicine Workshop, “Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) and Its Clinical Applications”
February Held the kick-off event for the Precision Medicine Knowledge Base initiative

2022

November Held the 2022 SNUH Precision Medicine Symposium
July Tae-Min Kim appointed as the 4th Director of the Center for Precision Medicine
April Signed an MOU between Seoul National University Hospital and Kakao Healthcare

2021

December Held the 2021 SNUH Precision Medicine Symposium
June Initiated the development and operation plan for the SNUH BioPortal

2020

July Jong-Hee Chae appointed as the 3rd Director and Jong-Il Kim as Deputy Director of the Center for Precision Medicine
June Held the 1st Precision Medicine Grand Rounds
May Launched the FIRST Lymphoma Panel

2019

November Reached 1,500 clinical panel tests annually
November Held the 2019 Precision Medicine Symposium
October Surpassed 4,000 cumulative clinical panel tests
August Launched FIRST Brain Cancer Panel v2
July Kyong Soo Park appointed as the 2nd Director and Jong-Il Kim as Deputy Director of the Center for Precision Medicine
February Held the SNUH Liquid Biopsy Symposium
February Conducted an 8-week Clinical Genomics Training Program for Practitioners

2018

November Held the 4th SNUH Precision Medicine Symposium
October Launched NextSeqDx-based clinical panel testing
July Launched the FIRST Hematologic Malignancy Panel
July Launched the FIRST Brain Cancer Panel
April Conducted Clinical Genomic Analysis Training for Practitioners
February Held the Center for Precision Medicine New Year Development Workshop

2017

November Officially opened the SNUH Center for Precision Medicine
November Tae-You Kim appointed as the inaugural Director and Joo-Han Kim as Deputy Director of the Center for Precision Medicine
November Launched the FIRST Pan-Cancer Panel and FIRST Glioma Panel