asan award in medicine asan award in medicine the asan award in medicine (frequently written as asan award in medicine) is an annual medical award presented by the asan foundation (ko). not to be confused with their other prize, the asan award, which is given for volunteer work, nor the asan memorial poetry prize given by the asan memorial association in memory of malayalam poet kumaran asan. established in 2007, the asan award in medicine is presented in the categories of basic medicine, clinical medicine, and young medical scientists who are under the age of 40. for the first five years there was a singular laureate but now there is laureate for basic and clinical and up to three young scientists laureates. asan award in medicinecountrysouth koreafirst awarded2008websiteasan foundation asan award in medicinehangul아산의학상hanja峨山醫學賞revised romanizationasan uihang sangmccune–reischauerasan ŭihang sang history raised in 2013 to encourage medical research, prize money for the first two categories is 300 million krw, and for found scientists it is 50 million krw each. while the foundation's website mentions the award is given to "medical scientists devoting themselves to the country’s medical development", the award's website mentions the honor can be presented to medical scientists of any citizenship who "have made contributions to the development of korea's medical science." international recipients receive their prize money in 250,000 usd. recipients the award has been given to the following individuals. year laureate 2008 kim hyo-soo 2009 koh jae-young 2010 lee sung-gyu 2011 park seung-jung 2012 koh gou young year basic medicine clinical medicine young medical scientists 2013 chung jongkyeong kwon jun soo lee jeong hokim sung-han 2014 suh pann-ghill lee kyung soo ko jaewonpark duk-woo 2015 park jong-wan lee myung-shik kim hyongbumpark jeong-yeol 2016 oh byung-ha roberto romero cho seung-wookim joon bum 2017 kim jin-soo han duck jong choi jung kyoonahn jung-min 2018 kim eunjoon bang yung-jue kim ho minkim beom kyung 2019 kim v. narry kim jong sung han buhmlee eun ji 2020 lee wonjae lee jaewon ju yeongseoklee yongho 2021 ronald m. evans koo bon-kwon kim jin-hongyoo changhoon