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Info 2025/2026

Course code 11893
Degree type CORSO DI LAUREA TRIENNALE (D.M. 1648/2023)
Duration 3 years
CFU 180
Class L-2 R
BIOTECHNOLOGIES
Access Admission test
Available places EU Students 96
Non-EU Students 4
Locations GENOVA
Language Italian
Teaching mode In-person
Head of programme
Department DIPARTIMENTO DI MEDICINA SPERIMENTALE
Documents
Information about this Course for previous years is available here

The course in brief

Presentation

The course trains scientists with a solid background of basic theoretical knowledge and highly specific skills applied to the various fields of biotechnology. Notions of physics, chemistry, molecular and cellular biology are provided in the course, with an emphasis on application and the design and implementation of new biotechnological methodologies.

Learning by doing

The course has a very strong practical emphasis: laboratories characterise many of the lectures and enable students to familiarise themselves with the most important techniques. Of great importance is the laboratory internship for the preparation of the thesis, which must be experimental, and which can be carried out in university laboratories of the highest quality, in centres of excellence such as the Policlinico San Martino Hospital, the Italian Institute of Technology, the Giannina Gaslini Institute or in companies in the sector.

The course is also highly practical: laboratory internships are a feature of many of the lessons and enable students to become familiar with the most important techniques.

Professional outlets

In addition to continuing their studies with a master's degree, a graduate in biotechnology can enter the professions of industry technician, biomedical laboratory technician in toxicological/environmental detection centres and in research institutes or organisations. Other directly accessible professions are scientific informant and consultant in the fields of environmental quality, hygiene and use of biotechnological products.

What you will learn

coltivare cellule

far crescere cellule di animali e piante in laboratorio

la reazione a catena della DNA polimerasi (PCR)

padroneggiare una delle più importanti tecniche della biologia molecolare

immunologia

i meccanismi di risposta dell'organismo ad agenti patogeni

il funzionamento dei farmaci

ideare e validare nuove terapie

costruire molecole di DNA ricombinante

modificare il genoma degli organismi viventi

biotecnologie industriali

utilizzare e modificare microrganismi per scopi industriali

procreazione medicalmente assistita

le tecniche per la fecondazione umana in vitro

genetica

le basi dell'ereditarietà dei caratteri

bioinformatica

analizzare computazionalmente enormi moli di dati biologici

Contents

The Biotechnology degree programme enables graduates to apply multidisciplinary techniques for the analysis, modification and use of cells and their components for the production of goods and services. Economic, managerial, legal, ethical and environmental aspects of the applications of these technologies are also considered.

It provides a degree that is immediately spendable on the job market in the field of biotechnology and biomedical industry and research, and a solid basis for access to Master's degrees in the medical, veterinary, pharmaceutical, industrial and agricultural fields.

It is oriented so as to provide a good basic education in the first two years, with the emphasis in the third year on laboratory activities and qualifying courses that are immediately spendable in the world of work.

Coordinator

Dear students,
the three years of the Biotechnology course represent a revolution in your education equal to that experienced at the beginning of primary school. If in the latter you were provided with the indispensable keys to life in today's society, in the university you build the foundations of your professional life.

These are the foundations of your professional life. In welcoming you to our course, I welcome you to the gateway of one of the most enthusiastic and most rapidly developing disciplines.  

Tullio Florio

Where we are

Direction and Educational Manager
CBA Centre for Advanced Biotechnology
Policlinico San Martino Hospital

Lecture Rooms and Didactics
Polo Didattico Biomedico ex-Saiwa
Corso Gastaldi 161
16131 Genoa

Alberti Pole
Via L.B. Alberti 4
16131 Genova

Surgical Teaching Pole and Institute of Anatomy
Via de Toni
16131 Genova

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