Master degree in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies

The Master’s Degree program in Medical and Pharmaceuticals Biotechnologies is an English-taught 2-year program that prepares graduates with highly skilled in designing, analyzing, and researching biotechnologies in the biomedical and pharmaceutical field.

During a common first year the students acquire skills and knowledge on the fundamentals of biotechnology, particularly concerning:

• Stem cells and their use in various research fields;
• Genetics in normal conditions and its modifications in diseases;
• Engineered proteins and on RNA technology, as well as their dynamic interaction (system biology);
• Biotechnological applications in biochemical/biomolecular diagnostics and in the development of biological markers;
• The biochemical and physiological aspects of human cells, tissues, and organisms;
• The basis of human pathological processes of an infectious, metabolic, degenerative, and tumor type, with reference to their cellular pathogenetic and molecular mechanisms;

In the second year the student will choose between two curricula:

The biomedical curriculum focuses on the pathogenetic mechanisms of diseases human, non-pharmaceutical (vaccines, biological drugs, gene, and cell therapy), and pharmaceutical therapies.

The pharmaceutical curriculum focuses on biotechnologies applied to the design, research and development, and analysis of innovative biotechnological drugs.

Graduates of this master’s degree course can be hired in:

• Universities, public and private research institutes
• Hospital laboratories
• Pharmaceutical industries
• Research and development laboratories and industrial production departments
• Biotechnological service centers
• Biotechnological companies

• Medical Biotechnologies Curriculum
• Pharmaceutical Curriculum

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