MSc Program Structure

The M.Sc. program consists of four main modules, which will be attended in parallel. In summary, the four modules will cover the following individual fields:

1. Mechanisms of Disease

• Introduction to Basic Laboratory and Clinical Research Methodology

• Molecular and cellular mechanisms in immunological diseases and chronic inflammation

• Molecular and cellular mechanisms in cancer

• Molecular and cellular mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases

• Molecular and cellular mechanisms in metabolic diseases

• Molecular and cellular mechanisms in infectious diseases

• Systems Biology and identification of new targets: Prevention, diagnosis and targeted therapies

2. Molecular and Cellular therapies

• Biological therapies (molecular, genetic and cellular)

• Cutting-edge technologies in molecular biology and genetics (genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, metagenomics, epigenetics etc.)

• Biomarkers and companion diagnostic kits for personalised approaches

• Fundamental principles in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biostatistics

• Precision Medicine: Methods, trends and challenges

• Drug development process - from in silico to in vivo; Innovation in medical product evaluation

• Orphan drugs / Orphan diseases

• Drug repositioning

3. Bio-innovation

• Emerging markets in the pharmaceutical sector and healthcare

• Basic principles of entrepreneurship and innovation: Start-ups, spin-offs and investment funds

• Successful examples of business innovation

• Advanced Biomaterials and Nanotechnologies

• Intellectual property and exploitation of results: the life cycle of a patent

• Technology transfer: from academia to industry

• Opportunities and challenges in the "big data" era

• Ethical, legal and social implications of personalized medicine

4. Transferable Skills 

• Oral presentations of research results or new business products

• Writing research grant proposals or plans for business sponsorship/funding

• Writing scientific articles or reports on the activities of companies

• Bioethics and ethics in science and the business world

• Good safety practices in laboratory areas etc.

* The Msc program is full time. It is organised in such a way that it is not possible to be combined with a full-time job.

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