Arts et Métiers,ParisTech, and theParisTech Foundationhave joined forces to establish this Bioengineering Chair program, developed in partnership withÉcole Polytechnique,École des Mines ParisTech, andESPCI ParisTechto strengthen synergies.
Excellent fundamental and translational research and training in personalized biomechanical modeling of the osteoarticular and muscular systems is key to breakthrough innovations in the field of health engineering.
Missions and objectives
- Establish a center for research, teaching, and technological innovation in biomechanics, which will serve as a global reference center in biomechanics, producing scientific results at the highest international level.
- Develop innovations for the design and evaluation of implants and devices in the fields of health, sports, and transportation.
- Develop tools to aid therapeutic decision-making, surgical planning, and clinical follow-up based on personalized modeling and simulation of therapeutic procedures.
- To train engineers, clinicians, and researchers who are truly open to current clinical and industrial issues, capable of integrating effectively into highly multidisciplinary teams and leading large-scale projects.
- Raise public awareness of the usefulness of research in this field.
Strategic priorities
- Medical Sector: "Clinical Innovation in Orthopedics": Improved understanding of pathologies resulting from degenerative processes, trauma, or disability will lead to rehabilitation strategies for the prevention of certain pathologies, the development of professional tools to assist in diagnosis and therapeutic management, and breakthrough innovations in the design of implants and devices.
- Transport sector: "Comfort and safety":Improving personalized models, taking into account muscles and their activation, and understanding the variability of injury mechanisms (linked to interindividual differences, whether morphological or related to the positioning of subjects) will help improve prevention methods. Comprehensive knowledge of the subject for different postures and movements will also lead to innovations in the field of ergonomics.
- Sports sector: "Sports and health":Personalized modeling incorporating the skeleton, joints, and musculature opens up exciting prospects in the field of sports, whether it be analyzing and modeling athletic movements to improve performance, developing equipment for greater comfort, better strategy, and improved protection for athletes, or studying the mechanisms linking sports and health for targeted athletic training.
Partners
- Société Générale, and in particular its disability mission, is working to develop research aimed at improving mobility for people with disabilities.
- TheCotrel Foundationfor Research into Spinal Pathologies (Institut de France) works to improve understanding of the causes of spinal deformities in order to identify progressive scoliosis at an early stage and improve treatment.
- PROTEOR worksto develop innovative and high-performance devices for people with disabilities and supports research into scoliosis.
- TheCOVEA insurance consortium(a mutual insurance group comprising GMF, MAAF, and MMA) is working to better understand the risks of damage to the musculoskeletal system, whether due to injury mechanisms in transport or sports, or the risk of falls among the elderly.
