FORENAP FRP is associated with the Neuroscience Federative Institute (IFR 37) in Strasbourg and contributes to science development in the Rhine Area (Strasbourg, Basel and Freiburg) with the Neurex network (neuroscience) and with the cluster BioValley (life science). Partnerships have also been developed with academic (universities, INSERM, CNRS) and non academic research teams through local, regional and national collaborations, such as:
- « Bruit de train » project has started in 2007, in collaboration with the Laboratory of “Transport et Environnement” from INRETS at Bron and the Regional Laboratory “des Ponts et Chaussées” of Strasbourg and is supported by the General Authority for Health (DGS).
The role of FORENAP in this project is to study the effect of noise induced by train traffic on quality of sleep as well as cardiovascular and motor responses of residents. These physiological parameters are correlated in time with sound recordings performed in parallel by the Regional Laboratory “des Ponts et Chaussées”. Potential discomfort, as well as main characteristics of nocturnal sleep are also evaluated. - MONACO is a multipartner project involving the University and the “INSA” of Lyon, the University of Troyes, Renault and FORENAP. It has started begin of 2007 and aims to analyse some physiological parameters and the behaviour of drivers.
- Dialysleep project has started end of 2007, in collaboration with the “Centre d’Investigation Clinique en Biothérapie (CIC-BT) ” at Besançon and is supported by the Alsace Region. This project will be realised in 5 general hospitals in the East region of France, i.e. in Besançon, Colmar, Haguenau, Mâcon and Montbéliard.
Its aim is to study the nature and the frequency of the sleep disturbances before and after the implementation of a renal substitution method in renal insufficient patients in a home-based setting. FORENAP will coordinate this multicenter study at the regulatory level, will take in charge the management and monitoring of the study in the different centers and will provide specific training sessions to the nurses in charge of home-based recordings. Finally, FORENAP will also participate to the data analysis and to final report writing.
Other national research projects are currently in preparation and will start shortly.
FORENAP FRP is also financed by European funds for outline projects research. Two research projects from 6th PCRD are currently being performed, and one is pending :
- SENSATION “Advanced SENsor Development for ATtentION, Stress, Vigilance and Sleep/Wakefulness monitoring” is an integrated project (contract no. 507231), which started in January 2004 for a four-year period. The consortium is made of 59 partners from 21 European countries as well as Australia and China.
The objective of this project is to develop nano-sensors to have real time monitoring, to detect and predict the subjects’ physiological state changes (wakefulness/sleep), stress, inattention and hypovigilance states.
FORENAP contributes to this project with its expertise in data fusion, and its medical expertise in the field of sleep. Several tests will be carried out to assess new sensors compared to standard recording systems. Moreover, two protocols to assess the efficacy of insomnia treatments in patients and drug-induced hypovigilance in healthy volunteers will be performed with the new sensors developed in this project. - HUMABIO “HUman Monitoring and Authentication using Biodynamic Indicators and BehaviOural Analysis” is a targeted project (STREP) (contract no. 026990) which started in January 2006 for a 30-month period. Fifteen European partners have joined in.
The main objective is to develop a security system allowing individual identification by coupling already existing system such as voice recognition and face recognition with physiological parameters like ECG or EEG. This system would allow to obtain a unique physiological signature of someone and to detect possible dangerous situations (fatigue, alcohol or drugs).
FORENAP contributes to this project thanks to its EEG expertise and the considerable amount of its database in this field.
Many collaborations are expressed through university students (including Troyes university) training.
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European network in Neuroscience | Trinational cluster in Life Sciences | FORENAP is a World Health Organization (WHO) collaborator |
