stephane avril
@emse.fr
Biomedical Engineering / SAINBIOSE
Mines Saint-Etienne
2021-2022: Guest Professor, Technische Universität Graz, Austria.
2020-2022: Guest Professor, Technische Universität Wien, Austria.
2014- 2019: Visiting Professor, Yale University, USA.
EDUCATION
2007: Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France.
2002: PhD with honors in mechanical and civil engineering, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Saint-Etienne, France.
1999: Engineering Graduate School, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Saint-Étienne, France.
1999: MSc with honors in mechanical and civil engineering, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France.
1998: Bachelor in mathematics, University of Saint-Etienne, France.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Map quantitatively and non-invasively, with a microscopic resolution, the local mechanical properties (stiffness, resistance, tensile and shear stresses) in the extracellular matrix of biological tissues.
2. Computer modelling for assisting cardiovascular surgical interventions
3. Computer modell
FUTURE PROJECTS
MecOnChip
Recent vascular engineering efforts have focused on two distinct directions: either tissue engineered vessels for implantation as grafts or engineered vascular mimics (vessels-on-a-chip) that serve as platforms for understanding vascular development and disease or for testing the effects of drugs and/or endovascular devices. Our proposal falls in the second category. The state of the art is typically the production of a system that mimics the physiological setting to the extent possible by targeting relevant dimensions, incorporating the pertinent cell types, and attempting to reproduce physiological conditions. Our aim is to go at least one step further and to design and develop a vessel-on-a-chip platform that allows control of the cellular response by modulating the local mechanical environment. Our research hypothesis is that the cross-talk between cells and their biophysical microenvironment regulates the phenotypic endpoint of each single cell.
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