The chair

Humans and technology in surgery

Improving the quality and safety of care in the operating room, in hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery, by inventing, developing and deploying digital solutions — artificial intelligence and digital twins.

From innovation to progress

A major hepatectomy or a transplant still carries a real risk of complications. BOPA is devoted to innovations that concretely improve the quality and safety of care — while staying true to three principles.

Human acceptability

Digital solutions co-designed and validated by the OR care teams.

Technological interoperability

Tools that integrate with hospital information systems.

Socially reasonable

An ethical approach, financially responsible and low-carbon.

A unique alliance

In one place

World-class medical expertise

The leading centre for liver transplantation and HPB surgery in France, in close connection with the operating room.

Interdisciplinarity

Physicians, engineers and researchers at the crossroads of disciplines — the engine of the chair.

Computing power

Computers and engineers embedded, as close as possible to the care teams.

An integrated ecosystem

A place that brings people together, 500 m from the Hepato-Biliary Center.

Discover the place

From 2019 to 2030

2019

Ideation at the WIC

The Surgical Innovation Weekends — the "think tank".

2020

The BOPA chair is created

The "do tank": led by AP-HP, IMT and Université Paris-Saclay.

2023

The BOPEX third place opens

The "test tank": developing and testing innovations.

2025

BOPTECH and BOPA V2

The "tech tank", and the launch of BOPA 2 towards 2030.

BOPA 1 · 2020-2025

Proof through results

  • €1.6Min patronage (2020-2025)
  • 50publications
  • 51oral communications
  • 5PhD students funded
  • 7Master students funded
  • 2start-ups created

BOPA 2: augmenting the patient journey