Educational Challenge, First Prize

T. Kirscher, second-year HealthTech PhD student, was awarded first place by the MICCAI student board for the his tutorial in the Educational Challenge entitled “When explanations lie: stress-testing saliency maps before clinical deployment”.

Bset Communication in Poster Format

G. da Costa Correia, third-year HealthTech PhD student, was awarded the prize "Best Communication in Poster Format" at the conference "Recherche en Imagerie et Technologies pour la Santé" (RITS), which took place in Strasbourg from April 20-22, 2026.

2027-2028 Recruitment Information and Dates

Non-EU candidates: Recruitment for the next class of HealthTech students will open on the platform EEF on October 1, 2026.  EU candidates: Recruitment will for the next class of HealthTech students will open on the platform eCandidat in early 2027. The M1 in HealthTech will no longer be available starting in 2027/2028.

Best Poster Presentation Award: ISTU '26

A. Soliani, HealthTech Master '25 and current first-year PhD student in the HealthTech network, won the best poster presentation award at the International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) that took place in Trondheim, Norway from June 15-18, 2026.

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Executive Committee: New members

HealthTech is pleased to announce that Denis Fortun, researcher in image processing, and Nicolas Bourdet, researcher in biomechanics, have joined the…

HealthTech - Institute of Information Sciences and Technology for Healthcare

Progress in healthcare relies on cutting-edge translational research and on highly trained scientists and engineers who will tackle the main challenges in innovation in biomedical engineering.

HealthTech is one of the 15 Interdisciplinary Thematic Institutes (ITI), funded by the University of Strasbourg, together with its partners CNRS and Inserm, under the aegis of the Excellence Initiative (IdEx) program. HealthTech aims at developing an international pole of excellence in the field of innovation in Medicine, Digital Healthcare and Computer-Assisted Interventions.

The Institute is built around a unique association of doctors and surgeons, researchers in engineering and computer sciences, and researchers in the management of creativity, with a proven ability to transfer medical innovations from bench to bedside. This interdisciplinary research cluster of excellence is combined with a highly competitive graduate school, promoting training through research and the Master-PhD continuum.

  • Research cluster: A unique interdisciplinary background to develop tomorrow's healthcare based on top-level research in biomedical engineering and innovation.
  • Graduate school: A highly competitive Master-PhD international program to train the future generation of experts in the field of biomedical innovation.
     

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