MASTER´S DEGREE

IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

MASTER'S DEGREE

IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

MASTER'S DEGREE IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

DESCRIPTION

Biomedical research is essential to increasing the socio-economic welfare and sustainability of society and to improving the quality of life and life expectancy of its citizens. Moreover, biomedical research allows scientists to acquire new knowledge that can be applied to improve disease prevention and diagnosis, increase the safety of the application of drugs and therapies, and increase the efficiency of the healthcare resources used.

It will only be possible to better position healthcare research by creating lines of biomedical research in pharmaceutical technologies as well as in high-quality, global, multidisciplinary, and integrated health technologies and sciences. This requires collaborations focusing on problem-solving between researchers and basic, clinical, public health, occupational health, and environmental health teams to better simulate the realities of healthcare provision and clinical practice.

The master’s degree in biomedical science module taught at the CIPF aims to teach students the theory and practical use of the methods and techniques currently used in investigative research. It focuses on techniques designed to advance the molecular diagnosis of both Mendelian and complex human diseases as well as those used to develop therapies for these diseases. The master’s degree module covers the following topics:

  • Topic 1 – Drugs and Biomarkers.
  • Topic 2 – The bases and applications of cell therapy.
  • Topic 3 – Diagnosis of genetic diseases.
  • Topic 4 – Autoimmunity: the cellular and molecular mechanisms.
  • Topic 5 – The molecular biology of cancer.
  • Topic 6 – Neuropsychiatric pathologies: hepatic encephalopathy and schizophrenia.
  • Topic 7 – Biostatistics.
  • Topic 8 – Bioinformatics.