Dr. Anamika Bhargava is a Research Associate within the Functional Microscopy research group at National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Dr Bhargava was awarded her PhD degree in 2008 from the department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria. During her PhD, she received many awards for her research work presented at conferences. Following her PhD, She was a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Smith Labs, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada from 2008-2011. Anamika joined the lab of Dr Julia Gorelik in May 2011. Dr Bhargava's current research interests lie in the calcium channel activity and expression during heart failure. A typical aspect of heart failure is altered calcium transients and calcium channels may be the key. Dr Bhargava currently use “Smart-Patch” a powerful combination of conventional patch clamp technique and Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM) to answer key questions about functional calcium channels in Heart Failure using isolated adult rat cardiomyocytes. There is increasing evidence that calcium channels may move from their original location in heart failure and Smart-patch allows to track the movement of these functional calcium channels.

Conductance Microscopy, Toxicology, Pharmacology