January
✳ Launched Eastern Health Functional Food for improving memory for women and treatment of Alzheimer's (Women's Myungmin Series)
March
✳ Launched rapid PCR genotyping test kit for identifying imported deer antler by breen and origin
✳ Launched Myungmin Series for improving memory and treatment of Alzheimer's
April
✳ Signed MOU for joint research with Shinwon Medical Foundation
May
✳ Launched online shopping mall for Eastern Medicine (Yakjaemadang) and began domestic sales
August
✳ Launched health functional food BrainOne, BrainOne Gold and Youth24 for memory improvement and commenced domestic distribution
✳ Signed a dealership agreement with Kuwait's M.Cure and exported Puräelle, a feminine foaming wash.
✳ Filed patent for the rapid PCR genotyping test kit for the identification of deer antler by country of origin and breed/subspecies. (Patent filing no. 10-2018-0221193)
September
✳ Phase 2b/3 clinical trials for PM-012 approved by Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
November
✳ Joint development of rapid PCR algae bloom diagnosis kit with Korea Water Resources Corporation
December
✳ Exported Q14, a cervical cancer screening kit to the clinical pathology center of molecular diagnostics tests in Poland
✳ Signed CRO outsourcing contract for MF-018, an investigational new drug, as a non-opioid treament for pain relief from chemotherapy (Synex Inc.)