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ImpriMed, Inc.
ImpriMed is a Palo Alto-based precision medicine company using live-cell drug sensitivity testing and AI to predict how individual cancer patients - starting with dogs and cats - will respond to specific chemotherapy drugs. Founded in 2017 by Stanford engineering PhDs Sungwon Lim and Jamin Koo, ImpriMed serves a network of 250+ veterinary oncologists and is expanding its platform into human blood cancers and pharma CRO services.
Sungwon Lim
Dr. Sungwon Lim is the CEO and Co-Founder of ImpriMed, Inc., a Palo Alto-based precision oncology company that combines live cancer cell testing with AI to predict which drugs will work best for an individual patient's cancer - before treatment begins. Having raised $23M in Series A funding led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, ImpriMed has helped treat over 6,500 dogs with blood cancers across 130+ specialty hospitals in the US, Canada, England, and France, while publishing clinical data showing AI predictions tripled survival rates in relapsed B-cell lymphoma. A Stanford-trained bioengineer inspired by the potential of one powerful medicine to save millions, Lim pioneered a pivot into veterinary oncology as a proving ground before expanding the platform to human cancer treatment.