Dr. Michele Miragoli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Head of the Laboratory of Experimental and Applied Medical Technologies, and a researcher in affiliation with the Humanitas Clinical Institute. He is also an Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Genetics and Biomedicine, CNR, a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Cardiovascular Research, and affiliated with the Cellular Mechanosensing and Functional Microscopy Centre at Imperial College London.
He earned his degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Parma and completed a PhD in Systemic Pathophysiology. He then undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Bern (2003–2008), where he studied cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms and the pathogenic role of fibroblasts using transmembrane potential optical mapping. In March 2008, he joined Imperial College London (Wellcome Trust), combining ion conductance microscopy with optical mapping to correlate structural changes in membrane microdomains with cellular bioelectric properties, opening new avenues in cardiac nanomedicine research.
In 2011, he returned to Parma through the Italian Ministry of Health “Young Researchers” grant, establishing his research group at the University and simultaneously a second group at the Humanitas Clinical Institute IRCCS, Milan.
Publications and Achievements:
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>90 peer-reviewed articles in international journals such as Science, Science Translational Medicine, PNAS, Nature Communications, Cell Reports, Circulation, Circulation Research, Hepatology, Nanoletters, among others.
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H-index: 39 (Google Scholar), citations: >6,700, average IF: 7.52.
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Patents: 1; book chapters: 3.
Major Awards:
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2009: Italian Young Investigator Research Prize, Italian Society of Cardiovascular Research
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2008: Swiss Cardiovascular Biology Prize, Swiss Society of Cardiology
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2007: Best Poster Competition, Gordon Research Conference, Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, California, USA
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2004: Asher-Hess Prize, Swiss Society of Physiology
Scientific Activities:
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Speaker and session chair at numerous national and international conferences (American Heart Association, Biophysical Society, European Society of Cardiology, Gordon Research Conference).
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Memberships: British Heart Foundation Center of Research Excellence (UK), Swiss Physiological Society, Italian Society of Cardiovascular Research, European Society of Cardiology (Working Groups on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology and Myocardial Function), Italian Society of Experimental Biology.
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Reviewer: ERC Grants (2017–), ETH Grant Reviewers Committee (2014–), Biomed Research International (guest editor 2014), Editorial Board Frontiers of Cardiovascular Physiology (2013–), and reviewer for journals including Nano Letters, Cardiovascular Research, Circulation Research, Scientific Reports.
Grants and Funding: Horizon 2020, FP7, Italian Ministry of Health, Wellcome Trust, PRIN, Nanomax Flagship Projects, EuropeAID, MUR PON 2021–2027, PNRR ECOSISTER.