Back to high school for one day

Back to high school for one day

Entering a high-school should have felt like a trip to the past for Maria Barandalla Sobrados, a postdoc in the Signal Transduction in Cardiac Pathologies Lab at CNR-IRGB / Humanitas Clinical and Research Center. This time she was not there to attend lectures and pass exams but to share her experience as a researcher. For two hours, she interacted with a group of 75 last-year students from the scientific high school Italo Calvino in Rozzano, the city that hosts the laboratory where Maria works and conducts her research for CUPIDO. To communicate her research outside the academic walls is one of the duties foreseen in the postdoc fellowship that Maria won last year. The fellowship was awarded by Fondazione Veronesi, a foundation with the aim of promoting scientific research, health…
News on “Circulation”

News on “Circulation”

CUPIDO has been featured in the cardiology news section of the journal Circulation "From the Literature". The article "Inhalation Therapy May Help Treat Heart Failure" highlights the recent discoveries published in Science Translational Medicine journal. You can read the full article here.
1st paper for CUPIDO!

1st paper for CUPIDO!

One of the CUPIDO partner's, Michele Miragoli, part of the CNR-IRGB team, has published the first publication about the research done within CUPIDO! The paper "Cardiac kinematic parameters computed from video of in situ beating heart" has been published in the journal Scientific Reports and presents a new imaging modality, which extracts useful parameters from videos of a beating heart, displaying live cardiograms of the contraction events. The paper, published as open access, is available at the Publication section.