Purposes of Establishment To carry out the creation of the 3rd Medical Science, research and projects that is required to develop East-West Medical Science, participating in International Joint Research as a collaboration center of traditional medicine research of WHO.
	East-West Medical Research Institute (EWMRI) was established in February 1971, for the purpose of mutual complementary blending of eastern medicine and western medicine, so that each side's limitations can be overcome by creating the 3rd field in the medicine. By looking at the institute's past achievements such as opening East-West Medical Center, hosting World Congress of Scientific Research, producing 'Interferon' for the first time in Korea, concluding an agreement on research partnership with Italian National Research Council, appointed as WHO collaborating center for Traditional Medicine, and interchanging with the Reflex Therapy Center of USSR National Health Care, it can be concluded that the institute has been the basement of Kyung Hee foundation's medical schools, and the Mecca of clinical research. EWMRI has hosted several large-scale International Western-Oriental Medicine Symposiums. Especially, since 1996, research projects, research report, WHO internship training, and medical seminars have been actively supported. In October 2001, which was the 30th anniversary of Kyung Hee University Medical Center, the World Congress with the theme of 'collaboration of Eastern and Western Medicine in the 21st century', took place. Participated by 47 scholars from 7 countries, the World Congress was a great success. Recently, a large amount of expenditures are put into the college such as Vision 2000 Project, collaborating research of industry and academic world, Korean Science Foundation, and Korea Science Promotion Foundation to accelerate research projects. Specially, Korea Science Promotion Foundation is a large scale project that is the priming of institute's development, and is expected to have fruitful scientific outcomes. EWMRI is now cooperating with Graduate School of East-West Medical Science by interchanging information and attending research project. Graduate School is mainly focused on basic research, while institute is on clinical research to propel Oriental Medicine's scientification, and development of new-medicine to be internationally competitive. Kyung Hee University has a mammoth medical complex, which is equipped with College of Medicine, Oriental Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing Science, and Graduate School of East-West Medical Science. Especially, Kyung Hee's College of Oriental Medicine is recognized as the mecca of the Oriental Medicine. Our institute certainly believes that pursuing fusion point of East-West Medical Science from each field is the turning point of the history of the medical science, which creates new medical science. When all members join together to achieve research activities with constructive cooperation under creative endeavors, our institute will become the cradle of East-West Medical Science, and we will devote ourselves to accomplish it.