Institut de recherche contre les cancers de l'appareil digestif

Informations générales

IRCAD (Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif / Research Institute against Digestive Cancer) was founded in 1994 within the premises of Strasbourg's University Hospital. It pools digestive cancer research laboratories, a research and development department in computer sciences and robotics, and a training centre in minimally invasive surgery.

Every year, 5,700 surgeons, originating from 116 different countries, visit IRCAD to learn the latest surgical techniques. IRCAD has 2 exceptional operating platforms : one is equipped with 20 laparoscopic units, the other one is equipped with 6 robotic systems.

IRCAD has become the world’s leader in education and training in minimally invasive surgery and opened three cutting-edge mirror institutes: in Taiwan in 2008, in Barretos/São Paulo in 2011 and in Rio de Janeiro in June 2017. A new IRCAD center will open in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2019.

With 4,075 international scientific publications and communications (June 2017), IRCAD is the world's number one in the fields of computer science, robotics, and medical imaging applied to minimal access surgery.