Mercredi 1er octobre 2008, le Professeur Jacques Marescaux, Président de l’IRCAD s’est vu remettre le prestigieux prix Antoni de Gimbernat par le Professeur Antonio Sitges-Serra, Président de la Société Espagnole de Chirurgie. Ce prix, décerné tous les ans depuis 1963, est la plus haute distinction délivrée en Espagne à un membre éminent de la communauté chirurgicale internationale.
Last September 11, 2008 in New York, the IRCAD Imaging and Surgical Robotics team, led by Professor Luc Soler, was awarded the MICCAI first Prize at the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention Conference for the elaboration of the VR-Render software.
Le 11 septembre 2008 à New York, l’équipe d’Imagerie et Robotique Chirurgicale de l’IRCAD dirigée par le Professeur Luc Soler, a reçu le premier prix MICCAI à la conférence « Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention » pour l’élaboration du logiciel «VR-Render».
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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 […]
On 1st November 2007, Wael Bachta received the MICCAI Young Scientist Award at the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2007 for his article : Cardiolock: an active cardiac stabilizer – First in vivo experiments using a new robotized device par W. Bachta, P. Renaud, E. Laroche, J. Gangloff et A. Forgione.
Le 1er novembre 2007 à Brisbane, Wael Bachta a reçu le prix MICCAI du Jeune Scientifique à la conférence « Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2007 » pour l’article: « Cardiolock: an active cardiac stabilizer – First in vivo experiments using a new robotized device » par W. Bachta, P. Renaud, E. Laroche, J. Gangloff et A. Forgione.
[video_ircad file=”anubis” ext=”flv” credits=”IRCAD”]On April 2nd 2007, at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, Professor Jacques Marescaux and his team successfully performed the first no scar surgery. This first human incisionless operation was carried out using a flexible endoscope for transvaginal removal of the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) in a 30-year-old woman with symptomatic gallstones.
Clément Forest and Alexandre Hostettler won the first prize of the European Innovation Hopes 2006 and have been rewarded 3.000 € for their medical ultrasonography and needle insertion simulator under ultrasound control dedicated to the training of surgical manoeuvres and the certification of medical professionals.
Les lauréats Clément Forest et Alexandre Hostettler ont remporté le premier prix des Espoirs européens de l’innovation 2006 doté de 3000 € pour leur simulateur médical d’échographie et de planté d’aiguille sous contrôle échographique pour l’entraînement aux gestes chirurgicaux et la certification des professionnels.
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