Phd in PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

email: franco.mazzei@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913225
building: CU019
room: 209

Franco Mazzei, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Dept. of Chemistry and Drug Technologies, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, is responsible of the Biosensors Laboratory. He has published over 90 papers on national and international scientific journals and four patents with industrial partners on various aspects of electrochemical and optical sensors and biosensors in national and international journals. . He is presently involved in several research projects related to the development of biosensors for the determination in real samples, with grants from both government and private institutions. Biosensors Laboratory research group is involved in the field of electrochemical sensors and biosensors, with specific experience in the development of biocatalytic electrodes, some of them also covered by European patents.
The main areas of interest of Biosensors Laboratory are:
1) Nanotechnologies applied for the development of optical and electrochemical biosensors;
2) Development of enzymatic electrochemical biosensors and their application to environmental, pharmaceutical and food analysis;
3) Development of Enzymatic Biofuel Cells modified with conducting polymers and nanostructured materials
4) Study of the electrochemical properties of modified conducting polymers in the development of electron transfer based biosensors;
5) Evaluation and optimization of the different immobilization procedures of enzymes and mediators, that can be used in the development of enzymatic screen printed electrodes;
6) Application of Electrochemical Surface Plasmon Resonance (ESPR) in the evaluation of the growth of proteins, mediators andself-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold surfaces;
7) Development of ESPR and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy based immunosensors and their application in clinical, toxicological and pharmacological fields.