OptoCARD Lab

About us


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. 

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Funding

PRIN 2022

Deeply Learning to Predict Arrhythmias with Correlative Morpho-Functional Cardiac Imaging.

PNRR - Integrated Infrastructure

I-PHOQS - A large-scale Italian Research Infrastructure in the field of photonics and quantum science.

PNRR - MNESYS Spoke 1

NeuronHeart - Gaining insights into the remodelling of thecardiac and intracardiac nervous system in epilepsy-relatedchannelopathies.

FET PROACTIVE


REPAIR - Restoring cardiac mechanical function by polymeric artificial muscular tissue.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Little Brain of the Heart - The Importance of the Intracardiac Nervous System for Cardiac Function in Health, Disease, and Ageing.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship

OPTOCARD - Panoramic optical manipulation of cardiac electrical dynamics: a novel tool to study complex arrhythmias.

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