Institut Imagine — Necker Hospital
Craniofacial Growth and Form
Forme et Croissance du Crâne is an associate laboratory of Institut Imagine, and a reference center within the Filière Santé Maladies Rares TeteCou. The lab focuses on pattern formation and growth models in craniofacial malformations, using unique clinical data (MAFACE, CRANIOST), in collaboration with Arts et Métiers, CEA, Inria, UCL, Uppsala University, and Erasmus MC.
Our goal: to build predictive tools, from digital methods and medical data, to improve the management of craniofacial malformations.
Support our work
An associate laboratory of Institut Imagine — a reference center within the Filière Santé Maladies Rares TeteCou.
Who we are
Our team
Roman Hossein Khonsari
Head of the lab
Maxillofacial surgeon at Necker Hospital, professor and hospital practitioner (PU-PH) at Université Paris Cité. Heads the Craniofacial Growth and Form lab at Institut Imagine.
Arnaud Picard
Maxillofacial surgeon, Necker Hospital
Maxime Taverne
MNHN researcher, principal investigator
Works at the interface between geometric morphometrics, statistical shape modelling, biomechanics, and developmental biology to study craniofacial growth.
Hanna Lif
Plastic surgeon, Uppsala University Hospital
Visiting postdoc fellow in the lab; works on plagiocephaly (cranial base, orbital region, ophthalmic impairments).
Collaborations
Our partners
AP-HP, Université Paris Cité, Arts et Métiers, Inria, CEA, UCL, Uppsala University, Erasmus MC, and others.
Find us
The lab
Hôpital Universitaire Necker — Bâtiment Lavoisier
149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France