University Hospital Institutes (IHU)
- The University Hospital Institutes are centres of medical and scientific excellence created in 2011 under the Future Investment Programme launched by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of Health.
- There are 6 IHUs in the IHU Alliance (FOReSIGHT, IHU ICAN, IHU Strasbourg, Institut du Cerveau, Institut Imagine and Liryc), which will be joined by 12 new IHUs announced on 16 May 2023 by the French President as part of France Santé 2030.
- Each IHU brings together teams of researchers, healthcare professionals and companies around a single clinical theme: cardiometabolic diseases, infectious diseases, rare diseases, brain diseases, robotic surgery, etc
- The mission of the IHU is to integrate and accelerate hospital and university research processes, so that biomedical innovations can be disseminated more rapidly to patients and the economic fabric. In 10 years, the IHUs have demonstrated the power of a model of excellence that brings together in one place all the expertise needed to transform medical research into innovation.
