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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.
Care
Research
Innovation
Education
LATEST NEWS
Education
Endoscopic Surgery: IHU is organizing the hands-on course on flexible endoscopy at the 2026 EAES Congress
Participez au cours intensif d’endoscopie flexible dirigé par la Pr Silvana Perretta lors de l’EAES 2026 à Athènes. 20 places disponibles, inscrivez-vous !
Event
Launch of the “Interviews by IHU Strasbourg”: A major conference dedicated this year to the ethics of health research
The IHU Strasbourg is launching “Les Entretiens.” Join us on April 29, 2026, at the BNU for this major new conference dedicated to the ethics of health research.
Innovation
Disruptive MedTech Innovation: Discover ARC MedTech
The ARC project, led by ICube and supported by the IHU Strasbourg, presents an innovative needle that combines extreme flexibility with on-demand stiffness to enhance the safety of percutaneous procedures.
Research
Raymond Rosen Prize 2: Professor Thomas Baumert honored by the Foundation for Medical Research
Professor Thomas Baumert, professor of medicine at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg and director of the...
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.
