List of D. FOLIO’s projects

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David FOLIO’s research activities regularly lead him to collaborate in various scientific projects that is listed here.

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David Folio 

INSA Centre Val de Loire, Univ. Orléans, PRISME UR 4229

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Scientific projects aim to obtain funding for recruiting students, designing or improving experimental testbeds, and promoting scientific collaborations. Below is a list of the projects I have been involved in, including my role and the funding obtained. It is important to note that all of these projects have undergone a rigorous scientific review process.

Current Projets

  • BUBBLEBOT: Magnetic microbubbles for the targeted delivery of therapeutic agent in the brain

    Date

    10/2020 – 10/2023

    Funding

    210k€, supported by Région Centre Val de Loire (APR-IR)

    Summary

    The aim is to combine the progress made in microrobotics with those linked to the original microbubbles developed in order to improve the therapeutic targeting of glioblastoma.

    Role

    Principal Investigator (PI), and co-supervision of the PhD thesis of Karim Botros.

Old projects

European Union (EU) and National Funding (ANR) Projects

  • MTG: Microrobots Targeting Glioblastoma

    Date

    03/2019 – 03/2022

    Funding

    511.4k€, supported by French National Institute of Health and Medical Research1 (Inserm)

    Summary

    The MTG project is an Inserm, “plan cancer” project. The objective is to functionalize magnetic microrobot with NFL peptide2 to target glioblastoma (GBM).

    Role

    Co-responsible of the workpackage WP3: “in vitro and in vivo distribution and tracking studies using IVIS imaging system to test the capacity of MTG to target glioblastoma cells versus healthy cells of the nervous system”.

  • PIANHO: Innovative Haptic Instrumental platform for 3D Nano-manipulation

    Date

    03/2010 – 03/2014

    Funding

    761k€, supported by French national funding (ANR)

    Summary

    The PIANHO project is an ANR3 P3N (2009) project.
    The motivation of this project is to create a nanomanipulation platform capable of pick, hold and place nano-objects in the synchrotron radiation beam of the ESRF (Grenoble, France) via customizable tool-object interaction.

    Role

    Co-responsible of the workpackage: “Control of a Two-Fingered AFM-based Nano-manipulation System”, and co-supervision of the PhD thesis of Nabil Amari.

  • PROTEUS: Robotic Platform to facilitate transfer between industries

    Date

    12/2009 – 12/2013

    Funding

    2.1M€, supported by French national funding (ANR)

    Summary

    The PROTEUS project is an ANR ARPEGE program (2009) project.
    This project motivation was to help organizing interactions between academic and industrial partners of the french robotic community by providing suitable tools and models. Especially, one goal is to create a portal for the French robotic community as embodied by the GDR Robotique and its affiliated industrial partners, in order to facilitate transfer of knowledge and problems among this community. To achieve the PROTEUS project 12 partners have been involved.

    Role

    Co-responsible of the workpackage: “Young Challenge”.

  • PROSIT : Robotic Platform for an Interactive Tele-echographic Systems

    Date

    01/2009 – 09/2012

    Funding

    230k€, supported by French national funding (ANR)

    Summary

    The PROSIT project is an ANR Contint program (2008) project, coordinated by Professor Pierre Vieyres, University of Orléans, PRISME Laboratory.
    The goal is to develop an interactive and complex master-slave robotic platform for a medical diagnosis application (i.e., tele-echography) based on a well-defined modular control architecture.

    Role

    Co-responsible of the workpackage WP5: “Visual Servoing”.

  • NANOMA : Nano-Actuators and Nano-Sensors for Medical Applications

    Date

    06/2008 – 10/2011

    Funding

    3.3M€, supported by the European Commission

    Summary

    The NANOMA project is an European project funded under FP7 ICT 2007.3.6, Micro/nanosystems, coordinated by Professor Antoine Ferreira, University of Orléans, PRISME Laboratory. The NANOMA project aims at proposing novel controlled nanorobotic delivery systems which will be designed to improve the administration of drugs in the treatment and diagnosis of breast cancer.

    Role

    Co-responsible of the workpackage WP4: “Object Tracking, Planning and Control in MRI”.

Partnership

  • PHC4 cooperation program PROCORE between France and Hong-Kong

    Date

    2014 – 2015

    Summary

    Supervision and control of an improved platform for targeted administration of therapeutic Nanorobots.

    Partnership

    Cooperative research work with Prof. Li Zhang of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAE) du Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong-Kong

  • PHC cooperation program PROCOPE between France and Germany

    Date

    2010 – 2011

    Summary

    Design, fabrication and characterization of the swim of enhanced helical microrobots.

    Partnership

    Cooperative research work with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sergej Fatikov of the Division Microrobotics and Control Engineering (AMiR5) of the University of Oldenburg, Germany

Local Project

  • US-Probe: High Definition Echograph

    Date

    03/2017 – 03/2018

    Funding

    50k€, supported by Région Centre Val de Loire

    Summary

    Design of novel microrobotic platform with ultrasound probe vision.

    Role

    Principal Investigator (PI).

  • MicroRob:

    Date

    10/2013 – 09/2016

    Funding

    110k€, supported by Région Centre-Val de Loire and the agglomeration comity of Bourges.

    Summary

    Modeling and control of magnetic microcarrier for targeted cancer therapy.

    Role

    Co-supervision of the PhD thesis of Lyes Mellal.

  • Nano-IRM:

    Date

    09/2009 – 08/2012

    Funding

    110k€, supported by Région Centre-Val de Loire, the Cher (18) departmental councils and the agglomeration comity of Bourges.

    Summary

    Supervision and Control of an Improved Platform for Targeted Administration of Therapeutic Nanorobots. This project supports the above project NANOMA, by providing the funding for the PhD thesis of Karim Belharet.

    Role

    Co-supervision of the PhD thesis of Karim Belharet.

Footnotes

  1. From French: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), https://www.inserm.fr↩︎

  2. NeuroFilament Light subunit that is binding Tubulin (NFL peptide) is capable to penetrate in GBM, block and inhibit cell division.↩︎

  3. From French “Agence Nationale de la Recherche” (ANR), which is the French National Agency for Research. http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr↩︎

  4. PHC, from French “Partenariats Hubert Curien”, provides support for international scientific and technological exchange of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. https://www.campusfrance.org↩︎

  5. AMiR, that is from German “Abteilung für Mikrorobotik und Regelungstechnik”, is a department of the University of Oldenburg, Germany, headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sergej Fatikov. http://www.amir.uni-oldenburg.de↩︎

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