- Docente: Manuela Ferracin
- Crediti formativi: 2
- SSD: MED/04
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Medical Biotechnology (cod. 9081)
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dal 12/01/2024 al 23/01/2024
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
At the end of the course, students will learn how to study biomarkers for disease diagnosis and prognosis. The course will provide essential biostatistics knowledge, intended as statistical reasoning to unlocking the data gathered by researchers and the evidence presented in the scientific literature. Students will learn how to use this knowledge to critically interpret data concerning medical biomarkers, prediction models, markers of therapeutic outcomes, decision tools derived from the application of –omics technologies in oncology.
Contenuti
Lecture 1: Predictive, diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers; Biomarkers in treatment decision making and monitoring; Optimum biomarker selection, validation and application; Basics of statistics in medical papers. Introduction to GraphPad software.
Lecture 2: The path from biomarker discovery to clinical practice: examples from the real world. In-class exercise with GraphPad.
Lecture3 : How to find biomarker information using scientific websites. From –omic gene expression data to biomarker identification: bioinformatic approaches. In-class exercise with GraphPad.
Lecture 4: Critical reading of research papers. Business opportunities with biomarkers. In-class exercise with GraphPad.
Testi/Bibliografia
Original research articles and slides will be provided by the lecturer
Metodi didattici
The course will be structured as follows
- frontal lectures with PowerPoint slides
- in-class exercises
- discussion of original research articles on topics related to the lectures
In considerazione della tipologia di attività e dei metodi didattici adottati, la frequenza di questa attività formativa richiede la preventiva partecipazione di tutti gli studenti ai moduli 1 e 2 di formazione sulla sicurezza nei luoghi di studio, [https://elearning-sicurezza.unibo.it/] in modalità e-learning.
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Attendance to the course is mandatory to sustain the exam.
Student learning will be checked at the end of the course with a writtem exam (for the Biomarkers course). Eligibility will be granted at the end of the exam.
To pass the Integrated Course, and obtain the corresponding CFUs, the student needs to be deemed eligible in all the individual courses of FRONTIERS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH (I.C.).
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Teaching slides and materials will be made available at Unibo e-learning website virtuale.unibo.it
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Manuela Ferracin
SDGs
L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.