The MAREP project aims at tackling this problem by demonstrating a novel automated system for the comprehensive pharmacologic investigation of drug effects on in-vitro cardiac cell cultures. The novel approach combines laser excitation of novel metamaterials with high-density multielectrode arrays (HD-MEA), providing high quality and high throughput recording of cardiac cells activity and offering an unprecedented and affordable method for the global study of drug effects on the heart.

The project aims at developing hybrid interfaces between living neuronal networks and optical and electronic nano-devices. It may give significant advances in the development of brain-machine interfaces and into understanding the neuronal code, namely how our brain processes and stores information.