- Docente: Michelangelo Fiorentino
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biomedical Laboratory techniques (cod. 8484)
Learning outcomes
The course is aimed at providing the student with the basic knowledge for the clinical evaluation and interpretation of the basic diagnostic laboratory and molecular techniques with particular focus on liver and neoplastic diseases.
Course contents
The course is aimed at providing basic elements of in vitro and in situ clinical molecular diagnostics, with particular focus on solid tumors, kidney and liver function.
At the end of the course the student will learn how to carry on and interpretate the basic techniques in clinical molecular diagnostics.
Contents- Funtamentals of molecular diagnostics: in vitro techniques.
- Funtamentals of molecular diagnostics: in situ techniques.
- Renal function tests
- Liver function tests
- Tumor serum markers
- Assessment of serum proteins.
- Blood biomarkers in solid tumors.
- Urinary biomarkers in solid tumors.
- Biomarkers in effusions and other bodily fluids.
- Predictive molecular diagnostics in oncologic precision medicine.
- Focus on solid tumors:prostate cancer.
- Focus on solid tumors:colo-rectal cancer.
- Focus on solid tumors:breast cancer.
- Focus on solid tumors:lung cancer.
Presentation will be in Italian with powerpoint slides in English
Readings/Bibliography
No particular reading are suggested for this course.
Teaching methods
The course consists of 2 CFU (class presentations).
Assessment methods
The final exam consists of a written test with 30 multiple choice questions on the matter of the presentations.
For each question, the student receives a vote. The weighted result based on the median performance of the other students and the standard deviation is expressed in 30/30.
Teaching tools
The teaching material will be made
available on the Insegnamenti Online IOL Platform, in electronic format.
Office hours
See the website of Michelangelo Fiorentino