ERC Consolidator Grant for Elie Hachem

17 March 2022

Great first for CEMEF. Elie Hachem receives an ERC grant and we are extremely proud of his achievement.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the list of the 2021 call grants. Elie Hachem’s CURE project “Controlling Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms” is among the 313 projects selected. This is wonderful news that confirms the value of the work done by Elie Hachem and his team in their favorite fields of fluid mechanics and fluid-structure interaction coupled with artificial intelligence. Today, through this project, Elie Hachem wishes to use his scientific advances in a field that concerns us all, health. The CURE project is particularly interested in intracranial aneurysms, the cause of death of 500,000 people worldwide. The approach developed is original, addressing the medical issue in a new way. It combines several scientific fields by coupling fluid mechanics, fluid-structure interaction and machine learning for the treatment of unruptured aneurysms. It will provide effective solutions adapted to each patient.

We interviewed Elie Hachem about his project and the grant he just received. He tells us more:

“Submitting an ‘ERC’ is in itself quite a challenge and an accomplishment. I wanted to make a break with my job as a researcher. Until now, our approach has been to respond to a need. Here we provide the solution, this project creates a solution that will be applied individually. And it motivates me to put myself at the service of all. Today, there is a ruptured aneurysm every 18 minutes in the United States alone. It’s a real problem that has no easy solutions. I have been awarded a Consolidator grant of 1.9 million euros over a period of 5 years. This project will allow me and my team to transfer our advanced techniques (parallel computing, meshing, solvers, complex geometry, machine learning) of solving in mechaflu and FSI to healthcare.

My vision is that tomorrow medical care will be completely personalized.

Today, AI can predict diseases through its learning. It is a decision aid in the construction of care. Our project will establish a new metric in the risks related to aneurysms: first to choose whether or not to treat the person suffering from an aneurysm and if so, to decide which treatment and how to approach the surgery.

The CURE project is a collaboration between the CFL team and LMU Munich. The people involved are mainly: Elie Hachem, Philippe Meliga, Aurelien Larcher, Jonathan Viquerat (CEMEF), Bruno Figliuzzi, Augusto Fava Sanches, Yigit Özpeynirci and Professor Thomas Liebig (LMU Munich).

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