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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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Research
Innovation
Education
LATEST NEWS
Education
Surgical Data Science Summer School: Join us in 2026 for a week at the heart of AI-augmented surgery
Every year, as summer approaches, IHU Strasbourg transforms into a true laboratory of ideas. The corridors fill with...
Event
Good Laboratory Practices: the compliance of the IHU Strasbourg is renewed by the ANSM
IHU Strasbourg: A Confirmed Commitment to Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) IHU Strasbourg announces the renewal of its...
Innovation
Press release: Multidisciplinary group awarded in France 2030 Plan to develop next-generation software-based, smart, and frugal ultrasound imaging devices E-Scopics, Vermon, IHU de Strasbourg and Inria come together within the strategic POCUSI consortium
Press releaseAix-en-Provence / Paris / Strasbourg / ToursNovember 24, 2025 Multidisciplinary group awarded in France...
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.
