Set up in 1987, the Foundation was created to meet the needs of surgeons working at the Porte de Choisy clinic in Paris (now the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris), who are committed to research to develop new techniques, improve their patients’ prognosis and enhance their post-operative care.

The first funds were donated to the Foundation by mutual insurance companies, and it was recognized as a charitable organization in 1988.

Driven by clinical research and innovation in healthcare, the Foundation seeks to build bridges between fundamental medical research and all healthcare players, understood in the broadest and most multidisciplinary sense: caregivers, doctors, surgeons, biologists, engineers, etc., in all establishments or at home and in all regions.