Contact Information
Title
Adjunct Professor
Office
(Office) E12-3032
/ (Lab) University of Trieste, Italy
Phone
(Office) +853 8822 4934
Email
Teaching
| Education | |
| Ph.D. | Italian Ministry of University, Italy |
| M.S. | Ohio State University, USA |
| “LAUREA” B.S.+ M.S. | University of Trieste, Italy |
| Positions | |
| 2018-to date | Adjunct professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, China |
| 2002-to date | Promoted (2002) and then appointed (2005) Full Professor of Chemistry, University of Trieste, Italy |
| 2001-2002 | Associate professor of Materials Science, University of Trieste, Italy |
| 2001 | Visiting professor, Technical University of Dresden, Germany |
| 1998-2001 | Associate professor of Materials Science, “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy |
| 1995 1996 | Research Associate, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan |
| 1993 | Research Associate, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA |
| 1990-1998 | Assistant professor of Applied Chemistry, University of Trieste, Italy |
| Research Interests |
| Presently, the main research activity of Prof. Sergo concerns the use of Raman vibrational spectroscopy for applications in Health and Life Sciences. Within this field, a long lasting effort is devoted to use Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for quantitative determination of chemotherapeutic drugs circulating in the patients metabolic system. The final purpose is to arrive at a cheap, timely, drug quantification for achieving Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM); so far encouraging results have been achieved for Methotrexate and Imatinib. Another area of investigation concerns the use of Raman SERS for large scale cancer screening: in this case the approach is to build a chemometric model from a large number of known samples of Plasma/serum from patients, and to place a new sample/patients in a population determined by Principal Component Analysis(Linear Discriminant Analysis (or other chemometric tools). So far the approach, very cheap and fast, is being tested on breast cancer and prosthate cancer. In the past efforts have been dedicated to mapping of histological sections for comparing the morphological with the biochemical information (lung diseases, coeliac diseases, for example). |
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| Patents |
| Patent 102016000114276: “Substrate to carry out analysis and procedure to produce it” |
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