Emerging biomedical technologies for diagnosis and therapy

Research is focused on the investigation of physio-pathological mechanisms and on the development of patient-specific and predictive healthcare. The methods applied include multiscale modeling, numerical simulation and medical image processing also including approaches based on artificial intelligence. The main fields of application are: cardiac electrophysiology; transcriptional/translational regulation of natural and synthetic gene expression; artificial kidney and hemodialysis (HD) therapy; biomedical image interpretation and diagnosis. 

Our most recent research projects include: 

  • analysis of ADPKD progress by MR/CT image processing; 
  • tools for cardiac resynchronization therapy optimization; 
  • development of 3D patient-specific cardiac models from CT/MR/real time echocardiography; 
  • analysis of diffusion tensor imaging for cancer and genetic diseases; 
  • insights on atrial fibrillation through the integration of electrical rotors and fibrotic tissue analysis; 
  • effects of biological noise on gene circuit behavior; 
  • multilayer regulation of gene expression during phenotypic transition processes; 
  • quantification of the structural complexity of the brain in MR imaging by fractal analysis; 
  • augmented reality in robotic surgery for the kidney and prostate cancer; 
  • lung densitometry assessment with CT. 

ERC Fields 

  • LS7_1 - Medical engineering and technology 
  • LS7_2 - Diagnostic tools (e.g. genetic, imaging) 
  • LS9_2 - Synthetic biology, chemical biology and bio-engineering 
  • PE6_11 - Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video)
  • PE6_13 - Bioinformatics, biocomputing, and DNA and molecular computation 
  • LS7_10 - Health services, health care research, medical ethics;

Scientific coordinator: Prof. Cristiana Corsi

Faculty

Chiara Bartolucci

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Cristiana Corsi

Associate Professor

Simone Furini

Associate Professor

Emanuele Domenico Giordano

Associate Professor

Stefano Severi

Associate Professor

PhD Students and Research Fellows

Lida Alinezhad

PhD Student

Matteo Falanga

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

Joseph Lovecchio

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

Fazeelat Mazhar

Research fellow

Eugenio Ricci

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

Other people

  • Alice Pasini