Due to its characteristics, the PhD programme aims to train doctors, engineers, economists in the healthcare field, biologists, physicists, bio-informaticians, bio-statisticians, nurses, capable of transferring and integrating technological know-how into medical-surgical application field and, at the same time, to learn the use of advanced technologies for new diagnostic-therapeutic strategies and to improve the quality of life of patients. The PhD programme therefore aims to provide post-graduate training for new highly specialized professional figures who, due to their interdisciplinary skills, can have new and more qualified job opportunities in Universities, in public or private Research Institutes, in Hospitals or in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Industry. Each PhD student is entrusted to a supervisor who follows the educational-training path for the development of a research project.

Research fields

The PhD Programme is organized into three curricula: