George Berci Lifetime Achievement Award

WASHINGTON DC: THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD GIVEN BY THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN GASTROINTESTINAL AND ENDOSCOPIC SURGEONS (SAGES) TO PROFESSOR JACQUES MARESCAUX Last April 14, 2010, during the World Congress of Surgery that was held in Washington DC, the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) gave Professor Marescaux his most prestigious Award for the […]

The IRCAD and the INSERM strengthen their scientific cooperation

Last November 30, 2009, Professor Jacques Marescaux, Founding Father and President of the IRCAD and Professor Andre Syrota, Chief Director and President of the INSERM, signed an agreement protocol regarding the scientific cooperation between the IRCAD and the INSERM.

Meeting with the spouses of NATO’s Heads of State in Strasbourg

On Saturday 4th of April, during the NATO summit that took place in Strasbourg, the spouses of NATO’s Heads of State were supposed to have visited the IRCAD with Jacques Marescaux as their guide. As the visit was cancelled at the last minute due to security threats, a delegation of IRCAD guests was invited to […]

Inauguration of the IRCAD Taiwan

[video_ircad_playlist playlist='{“file”:”asiaircad2008_intro”,”folder”:”asia_ircad_taiwan”,”hd”:”1″,”title”:”Infrastructures”,”image”:”https://2017.ircad.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/033_MK_3970-300×200.jpg”}, {“file”:”asiaircad2008_inauguration”,”folder”:”asia_ircad_taiwan”,”hd”:”1″,”lang”:”en”,”title”:”Inauguration”,”image”:”https://2017.ircad.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/201_3K_4463-300×200.jpg”},{“file”:”asiaircad2008_firstcourse”,”folder”:”asia_ircad_taiwan”,”title”:”First course”,”ext”:”flv”,”image”:”https://2017.ircad.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/301_MK_4718-300×200.jpg”}’ credits=”Pascal RIEDINGER, Riedproductions”] The 26th of May 2008, the IRCAD and their partners in this project, Taiwan’s Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, inaugurated the Asia IRCAD Taiwan. This new center for research and training in minimally invasive surgery was conceived as a mirror training institute to the one in Strasbourg.

Visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy

Four months after his election, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the IRCAD Institute (Research Institute against Digestive Cancer) on the 6th of September under the guidance of Professor Jacques Marescaux, President of the IRCAD Institute. On the agenda of the visit: Research, Innovation, Robotics and New Surgical Technologies, Competitivity Cluster. On this occasion, Nicolas Sarkozy […]