Lodola Francesco, PhD

room 3014, building U3, tel. +39 02 6448 3228
lab 3015, building U3, tel. +39 02 6448 3331
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Health
Cardiovascular disease, Drug Discovery and Pharmacology, Nanomedicine and biomaterials
Cardiovascular Physiology, intracellular Ca2+ signaling, excitation-contraction coupling, optical modulation, nanomaterials, nanomedicine, therapeutic angiogenesis.
Intracellular Ca2+ cycling and signaling in cardiac arrhythmias; Therapeutic angiogenesis for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases; Novel approaches to control electrical activity and differentiation of cardiac cells.
* Co-first author , # Corresponding author
-DiFrancesco M.L., Lodola F.*, Colombo E., Maragliano L., Bramini M., Paternò G.M., Baldelli P., Della Serra M., Lunelli L., Marchioretto M., Grasselli G., Cimò S., Colella L., Fazzi D., Ortica F., Vurro V., Eleftheriou C.G., Shmal D., Maya-Vetencourt J.F., Bertarelli C., Lanzani G. and Benfenati F. Neuronal firing modulation by a membrane-targeted photoswitch. Nat Nanotechnol. 2020; DOI: 10.1038/s41565-019-0632-6
-Lodola F.#, Rosti V., Tullii G., Desii A., Tapella L., Catarsi P., Lim D., Moccia F. and Antognazza M.R. Conjugated polymers optically regulate the fate of Endothelial Colony Forming Cells. Sci Adv. 27 Sep 2019: Vol. 5, no. 9, eaav4620. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav4620.
-Lodola F.#, Vurro V., Crasto S., Di Pasquale E. and Lanzani G. Optical Pacing of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes Mediated by a Conjugated Polymer Interface. Adv Healthcare Mater. 2019 May 8:e1900198. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201900198.
-Denegri M., Bongianino R., Lodola F.*, Boncompagni S., De Giusti V.C., Avelino-Cruz J.E., Liu N., Persampieri S., Curcio A., Esposito F., Pietrangelo L., Marty I., Villani L., Moyaho A., Baiardi P., Auricchio A., Protasi F., Napolitano C. and Priori S.G. A single delivery of an adeno-associated viral construct to transfer the CASQ2 gene to knock-in mice affected by Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia is able to cure the disease from birth to advanced age. Circulation. Jun 24;129(25):2673-81. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.006901
Prof. Guglielmo Lanzani, Dr. Maria Rosa Antognazza – Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Prof. Giulio Pompilio – IRCCS Centro cardiologico Monzino
Prof. Francesco Moccia – Università degli studi di Pavia
Lodola’s Lab – #LodolaLab_BtBs
last update: March 2022