European Projects

● ✓ARAKNES:"Array of Robots Augmenting the KiNematics of Endoluminal Surgery" (Dario, CRIM lab, Pisa) (2008-2012) presentation ● ARCH: Patient specific image-based computational modelling for improvement of shortand long-term outcome of vascular access in patient on hemodialysis therapy (ARCH), ICT-2007.5.3 Virtual physiological human, ISTITUTO DI RICERCHE FARMACOLOGICHE "MARIO NEGRI" (MILANO) , 2008 (36m) ● ARTREAT: Multi-level patient-specific artery and atherogenesis model for outcome prediction, decision support treatment, and virtual hand-on training, ICT-2007.5.3 Virtual physiological human, SWORD TECHNOLOGIES SA, LUXEMBOURG, 2008 (36). ● MIRSURG:develop advanced table-top solid-state photonic sources for a specific wavelength in the mid-IR spectral range, as a practical, reliable and cost-effective alternative to large-scale free-electron lasers (FELs), for an important application in biomedicine (health): minimally invasive surgery (tissue ablation with minimal colleteral damage). ● Minisurg : Miniaturized Stereoscopic Distal Imaging Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery. (FP7-ICT) IMEC Fraunhofer ... 2008 2010 ● NANOMA: Nano-actuators and nano-sensors for medical applications, ICT-2007.3.6 Micro/nanosystems, 2008-2011, Universite d'Orleans. ● PASSPORT: PAtient specific simulation and preoperative realistic training for liver surgery, INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE CONTRE LES CANCERS DE L'APPAREIL DIGESTIF, Cedex, France, 2008-2011. ● ✓ROBOCAST project aims to develop ICT scientific methods and technologies which focus on robot assisted keyhole neurosurgery (startdate 1.1.08 STREP ICT Call 2, Prof. Ferrigno, Politechnico di Milano, ) (project hp) ● STREAM: Scaled Telerobotics for Enhanced Microsurgery (Own Marie-Curie project) ● VECTOR "Versatile Endoscopic Capsule for Gastrointestinal Tumor" (Dario 2006-2010), developing a miniaturised robotic pill for advanced diagnostics and therapy in the human digestive tract.