Personale docente

Dr. Michele Miragoli is Associate Professor in Experimental and applied medical technology, Head of the TecMed LAb (www.tecmedlab.unipr.it) at the Department of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Parma and honorary researcher at the Humanitas Research Hosptial in Milan and at the Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research at the National Research Council (CNR). He graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Parma, Italy, and completed a PhD program in Pathophysiology at the Institute of General Physiology, Parma. After his PhD, he spent five years at the Institute of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland, learning the technique of optical recording of impulse propagation with a focus on the cellular bases of cardiac arrhythmias and the role of fibroblasts in their pathogenesis. In March 2008 he joined the group of Prof. Julia Gorelik at Imperial College London with the aim to combine a new promising technique, hopping probe scanning ion conductance microscopy (SICM), with the optical recording of impulse propagation (OMIP), in order to study functional and structural cellular remodelling. This unique non-invasive system was operative at the beginning of 2009 and permits to investigated cardiac excitability at the nanoscale, opening a new avenue for the cardiac nanomedicine. In 2011, Dr. Miragoli achieved the young research grant from the Ministry of Health, which has permitted to re-entry in Italy at CERT, Center of Excellence for Toxicological Research, University of Parma and establishing his research group. In the meantime, he was appointed as junior group leader at Humanitas Research Center in Milan.