22 novembre 2025
itechsanté
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Research Institute for Innovation in Health Technologies
The world of health care is facing complex challenges, including an aging population, an increase in chronic diseases, inequalities in access to care, and mounting pressure on healthcare systems and supply chains.
These challenges call for innovative, collaborative, and technological solutions. It is against this backdrop that itechsanté was created, with the mission of turning these challenges into opportunities.
About us
Itechsanté is an institute specializing in health technologies, focusing on co-creation to meet current and future health challenges. That is why it brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, and members of civil society.
Its research community develops technologies and processes capable of preventing or diagnosing pathologies more quickly or supporting people living with physical, psychological, or neurological disabilities.
In addition to creating innovations that promote the well-being of people, itechsanté strives to optimize the efficiency of the healthcare system and support the performance of industries operating in this field.
Mission
Develop new knowledge, skills, and technological innovations to improve and promote health and increase the country’s collective wealth.
Vision
Canada’s most widely recognized institute in health technologies for the relevance of its training, its research, and the benefits of its innovations.
An approach focused on the needs of stakeholders
The members of itechsanté are committed to putting their expertise and experience to work to meet concrete needs. To achieve this, a number of measures have been put in place to keep in constant touch with stakeholders:
- Understanding workforce needs and adapting training programs to better meet them
- Immersion of engineering students in these environments through internships
- Applied, interdisciplinary research geared to the needs expressed by our partners
- Research infrastructures shared with stakeholders, enabling testing in real-life conditions
- Co-creation with users and future beneficiaries of innovations
- Adoption of a common language and adaptation to the different contexts of the healthcare sector, including its standards and regulations
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Our Key Themes
Taking action for optimal health
Prevention and wellness: itechsanté develops innovative solutions to prevent chronic diseases and promote healthy living. By reducing pressure on the healthcare system, it aims to improve people’s quality of life while generating sustainable savings.
Taking action on care
Connected and personalized health care: Thanks to state-of-the-art technology, itechsanté makes care more accessible, personalized, and responsive to everyone’s needs. This not only maximizes the effectiveness of care, but also reduces inequalities in access.
Taking action on operations
Process optimization: itechsanté helps make healthcare services and health-related industries more efficient. By optimizing clinical processes, workflows, production lines, and supply chains, it helps companies and institutions increase productivity, reduce lead times, and improve the quality of services and products for users.
Our areas of action
- Interdisciplinary and collaborative research
- Immersive training
- Technology transfer and entrepreneurship
- Influence on public policy
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Our Flagship Projects
itechsanté members work in a wide variety of fields related to health technologies, collectively providing solutions to complex questions that require a multidisciplinary approach.
Preventing Concussions
Through advanced modelling and characterization of materials, we have developed more effective protective helmets in partnership with the Kollide consortium. This innovative product has even captured the attention of the NFL and is now available for purchase.
Researchers: Yvan Petit and Éric Wagnac
Predicting Psychosis
The aim of this project is to develop tools to identify the first stages of risk in the development of schizophrenia and to find new therapeutic targets for pharmacological treatments that can be evaluated in clinical trials.
Researcher: Sylvain Bouix
Detecting Neurodegenerative Diseases Using an Earphone
In this project, in-ear microphones are used to continually capture multimodal biometric signals in order to develop individual models for predicting abnormalities.
Researcher: Rachel Bouserhal
A Blood Test to Detect Cancer
The team is working to develop a liquid biopsy technique for non-invasively detecting the presence of cancer and assessing its progression using DNA circulating in the blood.
Researcher: Alexandre Pellan Cheng
Research Projects for Students
Are you registered in a master’s or doctoral program? Are you looking for a project in the field of healthcare technology to carry out as part of your graduate studies? A number of professors are currently recruiting students to carry out the following projects.
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Our Team
itechsanté Management team
Nicola Hagemeister
itechsanté scientific director
Sylvain Bouix
itechsanté scientific co-director
Clarisse Bascans
itechsanté administrative manager
Over 30% of ÉTS professors have expertise in health technologies.
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Our Partners
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Contact Us
Do you have a project in mind? Want to share your ideas? Interested in working with us or becoming a partner? Contact us!
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