Cha Hospital Opens Korea's First Global Infertility Training Center"Taking the Lead in Solving Low Birth Problems"
Oct 27, 2024
Cha Hospital of Cha Medical University held the opening ceremony of the fertility training center for the first time in Korea at Pangyo Cha Bio Complex on the 25th, and began to train researchers specializing in infertility. The Global Infertility Training Center establishes the same laboratory system as the Child Hospital Infertility Center to provide education that infertility researchers can apply in the medical field through the latest equipment and state-of-the-art education system.
Joo Hyung-hwan, vice chairman of the Low Fertility and Aging Society Committee, Ji Byung-chul, vice chairman of the Korean Reproductive Medicine Association, Jeon Tae-joon, chairman of the Asia-Pacific Life Medicine Research Foundation, Moon Shin-yong, former professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Seoul National University, Cha Kyung-ryul, and BioThe group's research institute head, Kim Han-joong, chairman of Sungkwang Academy, and Yoon Do-heum, head of Cha Hospital Medical Center, attended.
The center, located on the second basement floor of the ChaBio Complex, is about 100 pyeong and is equipped with the latest equipment and facilities used for infertility procedures. In addition, doctoral-level infertility researchers with more than 20 years of experience are in charge of training eggs and sperm screening, culture technology, embryo biopsy (biopsy), freeze melting, micronutrient injection (ICSI), and pre-implantation genetic testing (PGT).
Assisted reproductive technology is a key factor that determines more than 60-70% of pregnancy success rates in infertility treatment, and all processes except egg collection and uterine transplantation depend on researchers' techniques. However, there were no institutions in Korea to educate or train infertile researchers on professional skills. In this reality, the Global Infertility Training Center, where Cha Hospital opened, is expected to not only improve researchers' skills, but also give researchers opportunities to advance overseas, and above all, increase the overall pregnancy success rate of domestic fertility centers to solve the problem of low birth rate.
Joo Hyung-hwan, vice chairman of the Low Fertility and Aging Society Committee, said at the opening ceremony that day, `240,000 people in Korea are receiving fertility treatment, of which 20,000 are pregnant and giving birth. We are grateful that more than 10,000 people, or 5% of domestic births, were born at Cha Hospital, leading the low birth rate in Korea. "We expect that the opening of the Global Infertility Training Center will contribute to increasing the success rate of pregnancy for infertile couples by transferring research and technology from Cha Hospital's 40 years of research and technology that have led reproductive medicine." In line with Cha's contribution to Korea's low birth rate, the government will also seek ways to support infertile couples in various ways such as technology and research as well as infertility treatment so that they can achieve their dreams of becoming parents, he said.
"We will generously disclose the know-how of Cha Hospital's laboratory to increase the success rate of pregnancy in domestic fertility centers. The infertility training center will contribute to resolving the national low birth rate, open opportunities for infertility researchers to advance overseas to Japan and Australia, and contribute to global industrialization of infertility," said Yoon Do-heum, head of Cha Hospital.
Cha Hospital's Global Infertility Training Center is also discussing its connection with the world's most prestigious American Society of Reproductive Medicine, and plans to create a linked department at Cha Medical University and use it as an educational institution for infertility researchers around the world. It plans to spread Korea's infertility medical technology to Australia, Japan, the United States, and Singapore as well as to countries vulnerable to infertility.
Joo Hyung-hwan, vice chairman of the Low Fertility and Aging Society Committee, Ji Byung-chul, vice chairman of the Korean Reproductive Medicine Association, Jeon Tae-joon, chairman of the Asia-Pacific Life Medicine Research Foundation, Moon Shin-yong, former professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Seoul National University, Cha Kyung-ryul, and BioThe group's research institute head, Kim Han-joong, chairman of Sungkwang Academy, and Yoon Do-heum, head of Cha Hospital Medical Center, attended.
The center, located on the second basement floor of the ChaBio Complex, is about 100 pyeong and is equipped with the latest equipment and facilities used for infertility procedures. In addition, doctoral-level infertility researchers with more than 20 years of experience are in charge of training eggs and sperm screening, culture technology, embryo biopsy (biopsy), freeze melting, micronutrient injection (ICSI), and pre-implantation genetic testing (PGT).
Assisted reproductive technology is a key factor that determines more than 60-70% of pregnancy success rates in infertility treatment, and all processes except egg collection and uterine transplantation depend on researchers' techniques. However, there were no institutions in Korea to educate or train infertile researchers on professional skills. In this reality, the Global Infertility Training Center, where Cha Hospital opened, is expected to not only improve researchers' skills, but also give researchers opportunities to advance overseas, and above all, increase the overall pregnancy success rate of domestic fertility centers to solve the problem of low birth rate.
Joo Hyung-hwan, vice chairman of the Low Fertility and Aging Society Committee, said at the opening ceremony that day, `240,000 people in Korea are receiving fertility treatment, of which 20,000 are pregnant and giving birth. We are grateful that more than 10,000 people, or 5% of domestic births, were born at Cha Hospital, leading the low birth rate in Korea. "We expect that the opening of the Global Infertility Training Center will contribute to increasing the success rate of pregnancy for infertile couples by transferring research and technology from Cha Hospital's 40 years of research and technology that have led reproductive medicine." In line with Cha's contribution to Korea's low birth rate, the government will also seek ways to support infertile couples in various ways such as technology and research as well as infertility treatment so that they can achieve their dreams of becoming parents, he said.
"We will generously disclose the know-how of Cha Hospital's laboratory to increase the success rate of pregnancy in domestic fertility centers. The infertility training center will contribute to resolving the national low birth rate, open opportunities for infertility researchers to advance overseas to Japan and Australia, and contribute to global industrialization of infertility," said Yoon Do-heum, head of Cha Hospital.
Cha Hospital's Global Infertility Training Center is also discussing its connection with the world's most prestigious American Society of Reproductive Medicine, and plans to create a linked department at Cha Medical University and use it as an educational institution for infertility researchers around the world. It plans to spread Korea's infertility medical technology to Australia, Japan, the United States, and Singapore as well as to countries vulnerable to infertility.
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