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Happy springtime from HealthTech! HealthTech has been busy in 2024, with an article in the DNA in January, several calls for proposals (and more ongoing), Master's and PhD training and research, and recruitment of the next year of HealthTech Master's and PhD students.
Photo credit: DNA, Laurent Réa
On January 7th, HealthTech was featured in the DNA with an article entitled, "Vers un bond technologique pour la santé" (Towards a technological leap for healthcare).
Check out our article on the DNA website.
The IHU and ITI HealthTech are launching a call for projects between Strasbourg University Hospitals (HUS) and ICube laboratory. This call marks the second ever joint IHU-ITI call for proposals and follows the success of the call in 2022. Selected projects will receive a financial endowment and/or services in-kind provided by the IHU and HealthTech. The directions and application form have been sent by email and applications are open until May 31st.
The annual call for 2nd-year Master's research project proposals is open from now until June 21st. These projects are the backbone of HealthTech's 2nd-year Master's training-through-research program and allow HealthTech students to take part in immersive research starting in the first semester of the 2nd year. Information about the objectives, eligibility criteria, calendar and procedure, as well as the application form, have been sent out by email. If you have not received this information, please write to : iti-healthtech@unistra.fr.
Last year, a record-breaking number of proposals were submitted and presented, representing the diversity and interdisciplinarity of the HealthTech consortium. We look forward to seeing what projects you have in store for our next cohort of M2 students.
The 2024 call for interdisciplinary research projects was a great success with a record number of 9 projects selected for financing. The projects feature collaborations between researchers from: ICube, BETA, the University Hospitals of Strasbourg (HUS), and BioValley France, and the majority will utilise the HealthTech-affiliated plaforms, IRIS and GAIA.
Take a look at our 2024 interdisciplinary projects to learn more.
We would like to thank all the researchers who applied and who continue to promote interdisciplinarity at the highest level of research. We look forward to future collaborations.
In April 2024, the ICube laboratory celebrated 10 years of health-related research with a series of presentations from permanent researchers, among whom over half are members of HealthTech.
In February 2024, HealthTech welcomed A. Morin, a first-year doctoral student supervised by C. Essert, L. Rubbert and J. Verde on the project Co-Pilot: Preoperative planning and intraoperative guidane for controlled articulated needles.
A. Morin joins a cohort of 6 HealthTech-funded doctoral for the academic year 2023-2024.
HealthTech is pleased to recognize the publication of L. Ruffenach et al, on their publication in the Journal of Biomechanics. This research was completed in part through the HealthTech's first call for proposals for seed research in 2021.
Click here to read the full article.
From February 19 - 23 2024, HealthTech M1 students attended the Winter School for Digital Healthcare Entrepreneurship at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The Winter School, offered through the EPICUR and EUCOR alliances, brought together students from 8 different universities for a weeklong intensive program. Over the course of the week, students worked in teams to identify problems in healthcare, design digital solutions for the problem identified, and develop a suitable business concept. On the final day, students had 7 minutes to pitch their solution and business concept to the teaching team. HealthTech is proud to announce that M1 students Luna S. and Kareem E. and their team won first prize for their business pitch for an application to help speech recovery for German-speaking stroke patients.
For more information about the week, take a look at EUCOR's recap post: Winter School - Digital Healthcare Entrepreneurship.
The Young Researchers Committee and HealthTech Ph.D. students held an event in March for Master's students in order to demystify the Ph.D. application procedure and provide first-hand experience about life as a Ph.D. student in Strasbourg. Ph.D students in their first, second, and third year presented to nearly the entire HealthTech M1 and M2 class and the event was followed by a social event at a board game café in the city center.
Manon Blaise, "Biomechanical modeling of the vestibule of the human inner ear for the study of healthy and pathological variants"
Cyril Meyer, "Segmentation d'images de microscopie électronique par apprentissage"
Yoann Tatarenko, "Modélisation multi-échelle des propriétés mécaniques passives du muscle squelettique murin : application à l’étude de l’expression du gène Klf10"
Kaifeng Zou, "Advancements in Generative Models: Enhancing Interpretability and Control of Complex Data through Disentanglement and Conditional Generation"
May and June are a busy period for HealthTech! In the coming weeks, we will recruit our next class of HealthTech Master's students and evaluate candidates for Ph.D. funding for 2024-2027.
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