The four year 240 ECTS credit Ph.D. in Life Sciences is a research intensive third cycle program designed according to the Bologna requirements. The curriculum of the program consists of three different types of courses
- Core pillar courses (36 ECTS),
- Elective pillar courses (24 ECTS), and
- Research pillar courses (Thesis Research and Thesis Dissertation; 180 ECTS).
Discipline Core Courses
- DENG 782 Research Methods Ethics 6 (ECTS)
- BIOL 720 Statistical Methods in Life Sciences 6 (ECTS)
Department Core Courses
- BIOL 750 Structural and Molecular Biology in Health and Disease 8 (ECTS)
- BIOL 791 Cellular Biophysics 8 (ECTS)
- BIOL 780 Applied Bioinformatics 8 (ECTS)
Department Electives
- BIOL 730 Advanced Neuroscience 8 (ECTS)
- BIOL 731 Synthetic Biology 8 (ECTS)
- BIOL 732 Drug Discovery and Design 8 (ECTS)
- BIOL 735 Hot Topics in Life Sciences 6 ECTS)
- BIOL 734 Advanced Cancer Biology 8 ECTS)
- BIOL 737 Advanced Optical Electron Microscopy 8 ECTS)
- BIOL 751 Advanced Topics in Cell Structure/Function 8 ECTS)
- BIOL 760 Molecular Biology of Prokaryotic Cells 8 ECTS)
- BIOL 770 Advanced Biotechnology 8 ECTS)
- BIOL 775 Gene Therapy 8 (ECTS)
Research Courses
- BIOL 799 Thesis Research 0 (ECTS)
- BIOL 800 Doctoral Thesis 180 (ECTS)