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Co-Principal Investigator in TransAtlantic projects
Co-Principal Investigator in TransAtlantic projects
2024-2026 FACE Foundation Transatlantic Research Partnership Grant, Developing a Link Between Muscle Microstructural Form and Function - Towards Improved Treatments for Age Related Muscle Impairments,
Scientific Coordinator, (French PI : Pierre-Yves ROHAN - ENSAM; US PI: Benjamin WHEATLEY - Bucknell University).
20 k€ funding, enabling transatlantic collaboration and research travel
Co-Principal Investigator in France-UK projects
Co-Principal Investigator in France-UK projects
2026 - 2027 British Council Springboard Grant, Medical Device Innovation and Improved Patient Outcomes using Subject-Specific Poromechanical Modelling of Biomechanical and Physiological Soft Tissue Properties
Institutional Lead (French PI: Pierre-Yves Rohan - ENSAM ; UK Lead: Laurence Russell, University of Southampton, with Peter Worsley and Alex Dickinson)
10 k€ funding, enabling France-UK collaboration and research travel
Participation to EU projects
Participation to EU projects
2018-2022 H2020 ITN STINTS, Understanding the complex biomechanical and biochemical pathways leading to loss of skin integrity, following skin exposure to prolonged pressure and shear forces
Scientific Coordinator, responible for IBHGC's participation as a partner organization.
Co-supervision of PhD student (Ekaterina MUKHINA) with Yohan PAYAN
Coordination of French National projects (France 2030)
Coordination of French National projects (France 2030)
2026-2030 PEPR SantéNum (France 20230) TWIN-IT (ANR-25-PESN-0016 TWIN-IT), Development and Use of a Multiscale Digital Twin for Early Detection of Soft Tissue Injuries
Project Coordinator, PI / Scientific Lead
Consortium: Arts et Métiers (coordinator), Mines Paris–PSL, CNRS, CEA, Fondation Hopale, Pôle Saint-Hélier, and PROTEOR.
Funding Requested: 1.5 M€ (377 k€ for ENSAM)
Funded under the France 2030 national investment plan, TWIN-IT develops personalized, multi-scale digital twins of soft tissues to predict and prevent pressure-induced damage in individuals with limited mobility, including lower-limb amputees.
Participation to French National projects (ANR)
Participation to French National projects (ANR)
2026-2030 ANR PRC SIMCORE, Simulation-based Co-design of an Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Exoskeleton
PI: Charles PONTONNIER
Scientific Lead of WP2
Funding Requested: 927 k€ (184 k€ for ENSAM)
Co-supervision of PhD student ()
2026-2030 ANR PRC Back-MIMICS, Back Muscles Multiparametric Imaging and Modeling for Clinical Stratification
PI: Maud CREZE
Co-supervision of PhD student ()
2022-2025 ANR PRCE IMPRINT, Individualized Manufacturing from fully digital PRocesses : Human-Orthopaedic device INTerfaces
PI: Hélene PILLET and Laurine CALISTRI,
Co-supervision of PhD student (Maialen MATRAY)
Participation in other Collaborative Research Projects
Participation in other Collaborative Research Projects
2024-2025 Institut Carnot ARTS CroissAnT (modélisation de la Croissance Anévrismale et de la formation de Thrombose)
PI : MAthieu SPECKLIN,
200 k€, funding of 1 PhD Student (Arnaud GISAET) + 1 MSc student (xx)
2023-2024 Fondation de l'Avenir pour la recherche médicale grant, Transfert clinique d'innovations technologiques et numériques pour l'identification et la prévention des risques d'escarre,
Scientific Coordinator
40 k€, Funding of 1 clinical research assistant (Maher ABOU KARAM) and 1 MSc student (CARLA CORNILLON)
2020-2022 European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Research Project Collaboration Funding, Preliminary evaluation of the clinical relevance of a simplified framework for generating in silico models from freehand Ultrasound for monitoring internal tissue strains for the prevention of PUs
Scientific Coordinator
10 k€, renting of CARDIFF MRI platform location, 1 MSc student (Gregoire DESHAIRS) and face to face meetings
2016-2018 Fondation de l'Avenir pour la recherche médicale grant, Development of a monitoring tool of the subdermal soft tissue deformation for the prevention of pressure ulcers in the paraplegic and tetraplegic patient
PI : Hélène PILLET,
40 k€, funding of 2 MSc student (Nolwenn FOUGERON, Jennifer DORIDAM), pressure matresses and conference funding
2016-2017 Fédération Francilienne de Mécanique « Coup de pouce » grant, Modelling the osseo-integration of hydrogel implants »
PI : Rachele ALLENA,
Funding of 1 Post-Doc (Jamie FRAME)
Doctoral Contracts
Doctoral Contracts
2021-2024 Doctoral contract with the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Funding of 1 PhD student (Alexandre SEGAIN)
2018-2021 Doctoral contract funded by the ENSAM "Réseau santé", Mechano-biology of tumor growth with the aim of clinical application, a reactive multiphase poromechanical approach, Funding of 1 PhD student (Stéphane URCUN)
2016-2019 Doctoral contract funded by the Fondation des Arts et Métiers and the Fond de dotation Clinatec, Contribution to the modelling the human-machine mechanical interface in the full-body exoskeleton, EMY (Enhanced Mobility), developed by a French research team from CEA LIST, PI : Hélène PILLET, funding of 1 PhD student (Aurélien MACRON)
In vitro experiments
In vitro experiments
Research coordinator of N= experimental studies (mechanics + histology coupling)
2026 PhD Stessy Kutchukian - coordinator
Mechanical and histological characterization of human Prostate tissue
2026 PhD Caroline Robine-Decourcelle (3 fresh frozen dog lower limbs) - coordinator
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2026 M2 Karolina ROLDAN ZALDIVAR (N= ) - coordinator
Mechanical and histological characterization of skeletal muscle damage
Collaboration with Institut de Myologie and part of Transatlantic Research Partnership
2025 M2 Maeva Lamant (N=142) - coordinator
Mechanical and histological characterization of gluteal humain adipose tissue
2023 Clinical Research Delegation of Maud Creze (x fresh frozen human thoracolumbar Fascia and aponeurosis)
Thoracolumbar Fascia and aponeurosis characterization by shear wave elastography: an in vitro preliminary study
2023 M2 Caroline Robine-Decourcelle (7 fresh frozen dog lower limbs) - coordinator
Methodology for assessing the biomechanical performance of ACL and to provide reference data using an animal model (dog)
2021 ANR LIGAGEL2 (16 fresh frozen sheep lower limbs) - coordinator
Methodology for assessing the biomechanical performance of artificial knee ligaments, and to provide reference data using an animal model (sheep) at 3 months after implantation : 16 fresh frozen sheep lower limbs (8 artificial ligament implantation and 8 contralateral knees) were tested in vitro: three kinematics tests (flexion-extension, varus-valgus laxity and anterior drawer tests) and a pull-out destructive test.
2016 ANR LIGAGEL (14 fresh frozen sheep lower limbs)
Methodology for assessing the biomechanical performance of artificial knee ligaments, and to provide reference data using an animal model (sheep) at 3 months after implantation : 14 fresh frozen sheep lower limbs (7 autograft implantation and 7 contralateral knees) were tested in vitro: three kinematics tests (flexion-extension, varus-valgus laxity and anterior drawer tests) and a pull-out destructive test.
Functional evaluation of anterior cruciate ligagment autografts in pre-clinical animal models (dropbox link) Pierre-Yves Rohan, Hélène Pillet, Wafa Skalli, Julien Trnka, Mathieu Manassero, Véronique Viateau, Julien Caroux, Laurent Corte, 23rd Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, July 2-5, 2017, Seville, Spain
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