List of D. FOLIO’s 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”.

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

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.