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INSTITUTE FOR IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY
IHU Strasbourg
The IHU Strasbourg is a multidisciplinary institute dedicated to the creation and dissemination of innovative image-guided therapies guided by imaging for optimized, safe, and personalised patient care.
Our vision is to establish a new standard of care for surgical patients, taking into account the entire journey from preparation for the intervention to the return to normal life, providing them with the best quality of life possible.
Institute’s missions focus
The Institute’s missions focus on four key pillars: patient care, translational research, education, and technology transfer.
These missions include improving patients’ quality of life, researching new treatments, standardization, industrial skills, and training and disseminating knowledge to support the ongoing development of tomorrow’s medicine.
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Education
LATEST NEWS
Education
A Summer of Education: The BEST course
The BEST Innovation course revealed its 14th Strasbourg edition in August 2025.Created in 2011, the BEST course aims...
Event
MICCAI 2025: A Harvest of Success for the CAMMA Team at IHU Strasbourg
IHU Strasbourg and the CAMMA Team Stand Out at MICCAI 2025, the Leading Conference for Research in Digital Surgery....
Innovation
Scialytics : IHU spin-off is building the first AI powered end-to end ecosystem to measure and reduce surgical risk
Every year, millions of patients worldwide face preventable surgical complications, ranging from bleeding to...
Research
Pancreatic Cancer: Prof. Thomas Baumert wins prestigious ERC Proof of Concept Grant
Pancreatic cancer is among the most dreaded: often with no early symptoms, it is diagnosed late and associated with an...
Programme for Future Investments (PIA)
The IHU is part of the “Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir” (Programme for Future Investments) and benefits from financial support managed by the French National Research Agency (ANR) under the reference code ANR-10-IAHU-02. The aim of this programme was to develop translational research and its tech transfer through centres of excellence, equalling the best international institutions in terms of research, care and training.
Founding members
The Institute for Image-Guided Surgery was founded on November 28, 2011 by 7 founding members.
