Dr Fiona Bartoli
- Position: Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: Cardiovascular diseases; Heart failure; Cardiac and vascular physiology; Ion channels; Calcium signalling and imaging; Molecular biology; Excitation-Contraction Coupling; Muscle biology.
- Email: F.Bartoli@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 8.28B Clinical Sciences Building, St James’s University
- Website: ORCID
Profile
I have a MSc in Physiology and Neurosciences from the University of Poitiers, France (2014) and a PhD in Cardiac pathophysiology from the University of Paris-Saclay, France (2018) where I studied the role of Orai1 calcium channels in cardiac diseases. I moved to Leeds University as a BHF postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Beech’s group to study the role of endothelial Piezo1 channels in whole body physical activity and skeletal muscle biology. I was awarded a BHF Mautner Career Development Fellowship in 2021 to investigate calcium signalling pathways in fibrotic progression in failing human heart. I recently moved to LIMR at St James Hospital to start a postdoctoral research project on calcium signalling in Malignant Hyperthermia.
Research interests
My research is centered around calcium signalling in pathology. I focused on understanding the role of calcium channels in the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems.
Qualifications
- PhD Cardiac pathophysiology
- MSc Physiology and Neurosciences
- BSc Physiology and Neurosciences
Research groups and institutes
- Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine
- Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre