OptoCARD is a joint research laboratory established by Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council (IFC-CNR) in collaboration with the University of Florence - Department of NEUROFARBA.
Our mission is to develop cutting-edge optical technologies to advance the understanding of cardiac physiology across scales: from the nanoscale to the microscale and up to the mesoscale.
Our team is dedicated to developing advanced optical imaging methods that allow us to study the heart in unprecedented detail. By applying these innovative techniques, we investigate cardiac physiology in both healthy and diseased states, seeking to understand how the heart functions and adapts in different conditions.
Through this comprehensive approach, we aim to shed new light on the heart’s mechanisms, from molecular interactions all the way to the performance of the entire organ.
Laboratory funded by an ERC Advanced Grant
HeartCORE - Boosting predictive concepts on arrhythmogenesis resolving and unifying cardiac electrophysiology and structural remodelling at organ-level.
Deeply Learning to Predict Arrhythmias with Correlative Morpho-Functional Cardiac Imaging.
I-PHOQS - A large-scale Italian Research Infrastructure in the field of photonics and quantum science.
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