41307 - Seminars

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Moduli: Claudio Malizia (Modulo 1) Alessandra Stancari (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biomedical Laboratory techniques (cod. 8484)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the activity, the student will have acquired the typical skills of the analytical processes provided by the seminar’s teaching methodology.

Course contents

Preparatory Course for Practical Internship, divided into 2 modules (36 total hours) of lectures

MODULE 1: Elements of Analytical Chemistry (2 CFU)

  • Introduction to Analytical Chemistry - The Analytical Process
  • Spectrophotometry: Light and its Interaction with Matter
  • Spectrophotometry: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
  • Spectrophotometry: Lambert-Beer’s Law and Instrumentation
  • Separation Techniques: Chromatography – HPLC Principles
  • Separation Techniques: Chromatography – HPLC Instrumentation
  • Separation Techniques: Chromatography – HPLC Chromatograms and Exercises
  • Separation Techniques: Gas Chromatography and TLC – Principles and Instrumentation
  • Qualification of analytical instrumentation and method validation
  • Analytical Measurement: Data Processing and Errors
  • Exercises

MODULE 2: Pharmaceutical Production Techniques (1 CFU)

  • Orientation on Hospital Pharmacy Activities - The Production of Medicines and Good Manufacturing Practices
  • Sterile and Non-Sterile Galenic Production
  • Principles of Artificial Nutrition: NP Mixtures, Clinical-Pharmaceutical Aspects, and Formulation of NP Mixtures
  • Pharmacology of Antineoplastic Agents, Therapeutic Regimens
  • Computerized Preparation and Safe Handling of Antiblastic Therapies
  • Clinical Trials and the Production of Experimental Medicines
  • Laboratory Visits

Readings/Bibliography

Elements of Analytical Chemistry

  • - D'Ovidio C, De Grazia U, Lanuti P: Chimica Analitica Clinica. EdiSES Edizioni S.r.l. Napoli

  • - Cozzi R, Protti P, Ruaro T: Elementi di chimica analitica strumentale: Tecniche di analisi per Biotecnologie ambientali e sanitaire. Terza Edizione, Zanichelli editore S.p.a. Bologna

  • Lecture Slides

Pharmaceutical Production Techniques

  • Italian Official Pharmacopoeia, 12th Edition
  • Good Manufacturing Practices for Medicines
  • SINPE Guidelines for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
  • Lecture Slides

Teaching methods

  • Lectures
  • Laboratory Visits
  • Theoretical and Practical Exercises

Assessment methods

Module 1: Multiple Choice Questionnaire

Module 2: Multiple Choice Questionnaire

Teaching tools

Visit Claudio Malizia’s website [https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/claudio.malizia]

Visit Alessandra Stancari’s website [https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandra.stancari2]

Office hours

See the website of Claudio Malizia

See the website of Alessandra Stancari