Postgraduate Specialisation in Pathological Anatomy

General pathology

Course code
4S01165
Name of lecturer
Silvia Sartoris
Coordinator
Silvia Sartoris
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Academic sector
MED/04 - EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
Language of instruction
Italian
Period
not yet allocated

Learning outcomes

Update on some immunopathology topics important for the pathologist: immunopathology or cancer and autoimmunity.

Syllabus

1. Introduction: Immunopathology of cancer and autoimmunity. Tumor immunology and tumor antigens
2. Passive and active immunotherapy – correlation with tumor microenvironment
3. Immmunoevasion mechanisms
4. Exosomes, Microbiota and cancer. Building a“cancer immunogram”

Reference books
Author Title Publisher Year ISBN Note
Abbas A.K et al. Immunologia Cellulare e Molecolare (Edizione 9) Elsevier 2018
K. MURPHY, P. TRAVERS, M. WALPORT Janeway’s Immunobiology (Edizione 9) GS Garland Science 2017 2017

Assessment methods and criteria

eligibility based on presence



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