Rose H20205th October 2023
The whole consortium met in Dresden for our 5th bi-annual scientific meeting. Partners presented the work completed in each work package via talks, demonstrations and posters. We had many fruitful discussions, both between consortium members and with the advisory board.
September 2023
First tests of version 01 of our proof-of-concept digital olfaction module at CNRS Lyon. A sample odor is recognised by the e-nose and mapped to a stimulation, which is felt by a volunteer in real-time.
17th March 2023
The consortium has held its fourth bi-annual scientific meeting in Grenoble at the CEA’s LETI laboratory and welcomed two new post-doc researchers to the team: Anurupa Shaw (CEA) who will be working on the CMUT sensors and Clémentine Lipp (EPFL) who will be continuing the work of Evgenii Glushkov.
10th December 2022
Evgenii (EPFL) has delivered the latest version of the stimulator to the team in Thessaloniki
At a satellite meeting of the workshop on olfaction, material from Lausanne transited to Dresden via Lyon. We are almost ready for testing in patients in the New Year.
Wednesday 30 November 2022, Lyon, France
The consortium organized a program of seminars on olfaction with talks from different experts in the field. We welcomed a diverse audience of scientists, industrials, students and patients.
Amphithéâtre du Neurocampus
CRNL – CH Le Vinatier – Bâtiment 462 – Neurocampus, 95 Bd Pinel, 69500 Bron
Programme / Program:
Session 1: Functions of olfaction
13h00-13h30: Camille Ferdenzi (CRNL) – Social interaction: Human chemosensory communication
13h30-14h00: Marylou Mantel (University of Lyon) – Odor hedonics: universality and diversity
14h00-14h30: Denis Pierron (CNRS Toulouse) – Anthropology of olfaction
14h30-14h50: Break
Session 2: Olfactory deficits and plasticity
14h50-15h20: Thomas Hummel (University of Dresden, Germany) – Olfactory deficits: prevalence, types, origins and duration
15h20-15h50: Susanne Menzel (University of Dresden, Germany) – Restoring olfaction: paradigms
15h50-16h20: Nathalie Mandairon (CRNL) – Olfactory plasticity: mechanisms
16h20-16h40: Break
Session 3: Short communications
16h40-16h50: Yiling Mai (University of Dresden, Germany) – Abnormal olfactory and visual sensation during irradiation therapy: a prospective study
16h50-17h00: Michal Pieniak (University of Dresden, Germany) – Impact of olfactory training on olfactory functions and olfactory event-related potentials in healthy adults
17h00-17h10: Coralie Mignot ((University of Dresden, Germany) – Case Study: Consequences of gaining olfactory function after life-long anosmia
Session 4: Technology of smells
17h10-17h40: Marina Carulli (Politecnico Di Milano, Italy) – Olfactory displays
17h40-18h10: Romain Dubreuil (Aryballe Technologies, Grenoble) – Artificial noses
18h10-18:30 Discussion and Conclusions
15th September 2022
Representatives from all members of the consortium gathered in Milan (Italy) on the 15th of September 2022 in order to discuss the achievements and next steps of the Rose project. The latest versions of the odor sensor and of the stimulating array were presented. Thanks to these advances and the cooperation between work packages, the first multi-centric study involving human testing will be launched in the autumn. Consortium members were given an overview of the PoliMi lab’s facilities for mechanical design and the creation of scenarios for future proof-of-concept using virtual reality.
Members of the scientific advisory board, Martin Witt, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Bernard Perroud, and Jack Bikker, met with representatives from all seven project partner institutes at CRNL Lyon on the 28th June 2022. The session included a project overview, followed by short presentations outlining the objectives, status, and upcoming effort in each of the seven work packages. The day was productive and enjoyable, and the general consensus was that there is tangible evidence of progress having been made in the first year of the project. The presentations demonstrated considerable interaction between researchers in different institutions. We are therefore leveraging our expertise to move the work forward effectively. Obviously we have a long way to go, but we are up for the challenge!
10th May 2022
After 6 months of development, the very first generation stimulator built for the Rose project was tested on May 10th 2022 in Dresden with members from EPFL, Aryballe, CNRS and Dresden.
Wednesday 8 December 2021
Today we announced that the European Innovation Council awarded 3 million euros to the Rose project to assist people with anosmia.