Research activities are an integral part of HUG's mission, and are carried out in close collaboration with the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine.
The Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), a leading national and international academic institution, brings together eight public hospitals and two clinics.
In 2015, at the initiative of the Geneva Hyperbaric Medicine Program, the first Swiss training for physicians who wished to be trained in diving and hyperbaric medicine was established at UNIGE: