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1980
CHA Fertility Center- Seoul Station
fascinating patients from around the world
1980-
1984
Gangnam CHA Medical Center opens
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1986
Korea’s first test-tube baby by a private medical institution is delivered - Gangnam CHA Medical Center
CHA achieves Korea’s first successful pregnancy and birth by Gamete Intra-Fallopian Transfer -
1987
CHA establishes its first sperm bank CHA achieves Asia’s first successful pregnancy by a woman without ovaries
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1988
CHA achieves world’s first successful pregnancy from in-vitro fertilization performed with immature oocytes
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1989
CHA receives Prize Paper Award at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Fertility Society (now the American Society for Reproductive Medicine)
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1984
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1990
CHA Fertility Center- Seoul Station
fascinating patients from around the world
1990-
1991
TIME Magazine cover article features CHA General Hospital’s fertility and immature oocyte research outcomes
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1992
Fertility Center at Gangnam CHA Medical Center opens
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1993
CHA achieves Korea’s first successful birth through intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
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1994
CHA develops Korea’s first protocol for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
CHA achieves Korea’s first successful pregnancy after laparoscopic microsurgical tubal reversal -
1995
Bundang CHA Medical Center - Fertility Center opens
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1996
CHA achieves Korea’s first successful pregnancy and birth in a woman with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
Daegu CHA Women’s Hospital – Fertility Center opens
CHA achieves Korea’s first successful birth using preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) protocols
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1998
CHA develops world’s first protocols for oocyte vitrification
CHA increases success rates after application of laparoscopic techniques to microsurgical tubal reversal
CHA receives Prize Poster Award at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the 16th World Congress on Fertility and Sterility
CHA receives Prize Paper Award at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the 16th World Congress on Fertility and Sterility -
1999
CHA-Columbia Fertility Center opens - Korea’s first export of domestic medical technologies
CHA achieves world’s first successful birth from a vitrified oocyte
Fertility clinic opens at Gumi CHA Medical Center, Teaching Hospital at Pochon CHA University College of Medicine
center in Asia) open
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1991
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2000
CHA Fertility Center- Seoul Station
fascinating patients from around the world
2000-
2000
Daegu CHA Women’s Hospital opens CHA receives Prize Paper Award at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
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2002
CHA Fertility Center opens in Los Angeles, California, USA CHA Fertility Center - Los Angeles establishes first commercial egg bank in the world
CHA performs free IVF procedures for 19 low-income infertile couples
CHA discovers firstly in world genes associated with recurrent pregnancy loss Paper from CHA Medical Center
included in Novak’s Gynecology, a medical textbook used worldwide
CHA celebrates its 15th anniversary of Korea's first successful IVF birth Paper by the CHA Fertility Center accepted by The New York Times accepts paper by CHA as “the idea of the year.”
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2003
CHA achieves successful induction of spermatocyte differentiation from stem cells extracted from the testicle
CHA receives Prize Paper Award in Male fertility at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for
Reproductive Medicine
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2004
First ISO9001 credentials obtained for domestic fertility treatment
CHA discovers genes implicated in primordial follicle development using a DNA chip
CHA receives Prize Paper Award at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
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2005
CHA develops firstly in world technology for cryopreservation of oocytes using slush nitrogen
CHA receives Prize Paper Award at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in joint conference with the 51st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society.
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2006
CHA discovers firstly in world a protein associated with recurrent pregnancy loss Gumi CHA Women’s Hospital - Fertility Center opens
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2008
Bundang CHA Women’s Hospital - Fertility Center opens
CHA receives 2008 Medical Korea Grand Prize
CHA is designated a researchbased specialized Fertility Center by the Ministry of Health and Welfare
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2009
CHA establishes spermatogonial stem cells
CHA receives Prize Paper Award in Male fertility at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
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2000
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2010
CHA Fertility Center- Seoul Station
fascinating patients from around the world
2010-
2011
American Society for Reproductive Medicine establishes “KY Cha Award in Stem Cell Technology”
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2012
CHA achieves Korea’s first successful birth from cryopreserved oocytes by a survivor of gynecological cancer
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2014
CHA assists Korean entertainer Kang Won-Rae and his wife, Kim Song, in their pregnancy
CHA receives Prize Poster Award at the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for
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2015
CHA hosts the 10th Biennial Meeting of the Pacific Society for Reproductive Medicine in joint conference with the 69th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Reproductive Medicine and the International Ovarian Conference 2015
CHA Fertility Center - Seoul Station (the largest fertility center in Asia) open
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2011