700 people gathered at the Eglise Saint Paul The GOSPEL KIDS’ CHRISTMAS CONCERT for the IRCAD (Research Institute Against Digestive Cancer) took place on Friday, December 9, 2011, and gathered an audience of 700 people at the Eglise réformée Saint Paul, in the presence of Professor Jacques Marescaux, President of IRCAD, and of Francine Bord, President of IRCAD Friends.
On Thursday 1st December, Jules Hoffmann, the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2011 recipient, visited the IRCAD France with Pr. Jacques Marescaux, President of IRCAD, and Min Ho Huang, President of the Asia IRCAD Taiwan.
Following the invitation of Francine Bord, President of IRCAD Friends, and thanks to the generosity of Roland Mack, Europa Park CEO, more than 300 people were present at the IRCAD’s (Research Institute Against Digestive Cancer) charity dinner which was held on Friday, November 4, 2011, at the sumptuous Teatro dell’Arte, in the presence of Professor Jacques Marescaux, President of IRCAD.
IRCAD AITS TAIWAN Hall of Fame: Latest Achievements President Min-Ho Huang, President of Show Chwan Memorial Hospital and Founder of the Asian Institute of TeleSurgery (AITS) in Taiwan, was recently awarded the King Star Medal by Taiwanese President Ma.
IRCAD has inaugurated a new research and training center in the State of Sao Paulo in Brazil in partnership with the Hospital de Câncer de Barretos.
Kempferhof Golf Course The IRCAD, Research Institute against Digestive Cancer, will be holding the 2nd IRCAD TROPHY on Sunday June 26, 2011, at the Kempferhof Golf Course in Plobsheim. The IRCAD, Research Institute against Digestive Cancer, will be holding the 2nd IRCAD TROPHY on Sunday June 26, 2011, at the Kempferhof Golf Course in Plobsheim.
French Prime Minister François Fillon visited the IRCAD in Strasbourg for more than two hours in order to officialize the nomination of the 6 centers of excellence (IHU) selected by an international jury for the French government. The IRCAD was unanimously ranked first by the jury for the project: “Institute of Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Hybrid Surgery” (MIX-Surg).
Professor Jacques Marescaux, President of the IRCAD, has just been granted the Distinguished Contribution Award given by Sir Vincent Siew, Vice President of Taiwan. This award consecrates the achievements accomplished by the IRCAD, and notably the fruitful cooperation between the IRCAD France and the IRCAD Taiwan. The ceremony was officially held in Taiwan in the presence of André Reichardt, Vice [...]
Strasbourg’s IHU project “Institute of Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Hybrid Surgery” The IHU Strasbourg will lead the next evolution of medical procedures to Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Hybrid Surgery (MIX-Surg). Recent decades saw amazing progress in medicine as minimal access procedures replaced radical surgical resections. Unfortunately, minimally invasive techniques were developed by separate and distinct specialties and are inevitably limited by the [...]
Last February 10, 2011, Professor Jacques Marescaux, Founding President of the IRCAD and Head of Department of Digestive and Endocrine Surgery at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, along with Professor Bertrand Ludes, Dean of Strasbourg’s School of Medicine and Director of Strasbourg’s Forensic Medicine Institute, were awarded the Gold Medal of the French Renaissance by François Simonnet, President of the [...]
Almost 500 readers of the Alsatian newspaper DNA (Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace) were invited for an exclusive gathering at the IRCAD-France in Strasbourg on January 29, 2011, to learn about the latest surgical innovations developed by the IRCAD research team.
Professor Jacques Marescaux, President of the IRCAD, was guest of honor at the 10th Meeting of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA) in Hanoi, Vietnam, with a peak attendance of 2,200 Asian surgeons.