Dr. Michele Miragoli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma. He leads the Laboratory of Experimental and Applied Medical Technologies, serves as a collaborating researcher at Istituto Clinico Humanitas, and is currently affiliated with the Cellular Mechanosensing and Functional Microscopy Centre at Imperial College London. Further information about the laboratory is available at: www.tecmedlab.unipr.it.
He is the Director’s Delegate for Departmental Research and the Director’s Delegate for the VQR (Italian Research Quality Assessment). He also serves on the University Spin-Off Committee.
He obtained his degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Parma and earned a PhD in Systemic Pathophysiology. He then completed postdoctoral training at the University of Bern (2003–2008), investigating cardiac arrhythmogenic mechanisms and the pathogenic role of fibroblasts using transmembrane potential optical mapping. In March 2008, he moved to Imperial College London (Wellcome Trust), where he combined scanning ion conductance microscopy with optical mapping to correlate structural changes in membrane microdomains with cellular bioelectrical properties, helping to open new avenues in cardiac nanomedicine.
In 2012, he returned to Parma supported by the Italian Ministry of Health “Young Researchers” grant, establishing his research group at the University while running a parallel group at Humanitas Research Hospital (IRCCS) in Milan.
Publications and metrics
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Over 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals including Science, Science Translational Medicine, PNAS, Nature Communications, Cell Reports, Circulation, Circulation Research, Hepatology, and Nano Letters, among others.
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H-index: 40 (Google Scholar)
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Citations: >6,900
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Average Impact Factor: 7.52
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Patents: 2
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Book chapters: 3
Major awards
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2014: NanoDay – Best Oral Presentation
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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 Physiological Society
Scientific activities
Speaker and session chair at numerous national and international conferences (American Heart Association, Biophysical Society, European Society of Cardiology, Gordon Research Conference).
Member of scientific societies: British Heart Foundation Center of Research Excellence (UK), Swiss Physiological Society, Italian Society of Cardiovascular Research, European Society of Cardiology (Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology; Working Group on Myocardial Function), and the Italian Society of Experimental Biology.
Review and editorial activity: reviewer for ERC Grants (since 2017), ETH Grant Reviewers Committee (since 2014), Editorial Board member for Frontiers in Physiology (Frontiers of Cardiovascular Physiology, since 2013), and reviewer for multiple journals including Nano Letters, Cardiovascular Research, Circulation Research, Circulation, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Scientific Reports.
Grants and funding
Horizon 2020, FP7, Italian Ministry of Health, Wellcome Trust, PRIN, Nanomax Flagship Projects, EuropeAID, MUR PON 2021–2027, and PNRR ECOSISTER.