Dr. Mickael Tanter

Biography

  INSERM research director at the Langevin Institute ESPCI Paris, Mickaël developed with his team new therapy techniques and medical imaging, including, for example, non-invasive treatment of brain disorders with transcranial focused ultrasound (Equipex Ultrabrain) or a new brain imaging technique: the "fUltrasound" (functional brain Ultrasound). This imaging technique based on the study of blood flow can detect changes in cérébrale activity. His works led to the creation of a French company, Supersonic Imagine, which markets a scanner that can distinguish the tissue elasticity and variations and identify cancerous tumors. He also founded in 2015 Cardiawave that develops a revolutionary non-invasive medical device to treat a heart condition called aortic stenosis. Mickael Tanter is a member of the scientific council of the Ile de France, deputy director of the Langevin Institute, winner of Equipex with his team. He won the grand prize of Medical Research Jean Hamburger of the city of Paris in 2012, co-winner with Mathias Fink, Jacques Souquet and Jeremy Bercoff the Yves Rocard Prize the French Society of Physics 2011, winner of the Léon Brillouin the electricity Company, electronics and information and communications technology (EES) and the Institute of electrical and electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2010, Montgolfier Prize winner of the Corporation encouragement for the domestic industry in 2010.

Research Interest

  scanner that can distinguish the tissue elasticity and variations and identify cancerous tumors.