page_title: Asan Medical Center
section_title: ASAN Institute for Life Sciences
hierarchical_section_title: Asan Medical Center / Affiliates / ASAN Institute for Life Sciences
caption_attribution_description: English: Asan Institute for Life Sciences조선말: 아산생명과학연구원
context_page_description: Asan Medical Center is a hospital in Seoul, South Korea. It was established to put into practice the founding principles of Asan Foundation founder Chung Ju-Yung. It opened on June 23, 1989, under the name Seoul Jungang Hospital, and was renamed Asan Medical Center on April 27, 2002. With 2,715 licensed beds and a total area of 85,000 square meters, it is the largest hospital in Korea.
  Since 1993, a healthcare quality improvement team has been in operation at AMC. In 2011, the hospital implemented an internal model called Asan Global Standard designed around the baseline assessment of Joint Commission International.
  In 2015, for the ninth consecutive year, AMC was ranked Korea's No. 1 ‘Most Admired Hospital' in a survey conducted by Korea Management Association Consulting.
  In 2012, AMC was named the No. 1 ‘Most Trusted Hospital' in Korea in the Korean Standard Service Quality Index.
  In 2010, AMC received top overall ranking in the National Customer Satisfaction Index and was ranked No. 1 for three consecutive years in the Global Customer Satisfaction Competency Index.
  In 2009, AMC received the top prize in the 2009 Most Trusted Brand Awards.
context_section_description: The ASAN Institute for Life Sciences operates through a cooperative system between AMC and the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, and is home to research in the fields of clinical and basic medicine and related disciplines. Among the Institute's divisions are the Biomedical Research Center, Clinical Research Center, Clinical Trial Center, Bio-Resource Center, and Human Research Protection Center. The ASAN Institute for Life Sciences is Korea's first privately funded global bio-cluster. In a newly constructed building that opened in 2011, basic, translational, and clinical research is conducted by domestic and foreign research institutes. A collaborative research network of Korean and international researchers work in such areas as development of new drugs, diagnostic techniques, and clinical treatment methods. Its research staff includes approximately 1,300 researchers, including some 540 clinical instructors from AMC and about 760 specialized medical researchers.
caption: Asan Institute for Life Sciences