Systems and Molecular Biomedicine
This programme provides a high-quality training to life-and health-sciences doctoral candidates and offers courses that can help their career development
This interdisciplinary programme is linked to the research areas of the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine (DLSM), the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) and other Life Sciences research institutes in Luxembourg. It thus focuses on Molecular Biomedicine and Computational Biology. This programme brings together biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and students of medical disciplines, to offer them academic training that is tailored to their specific needs.
Research areas in the programme
Training
We aim for an excellent training of our doctoral candidates in life-and health-sciences. While the research training is the most important objective, we also want to enable future jobs outside of academia. Therefore, we foster the development of a broad skill set of our doctoral candidates.
Within the doctoral research project, the supervisor guides the exact scientific data acquisition and interpretation. Major goals are the publication of research manuscripts and finally the preparation of the doctoral thesis. The progress of the project is annually monitored by a thesis committee, which also provides scientific advice.
Every doctoral candidate develops a personalized training programme. This will for instance allow to gather experience in teaching, participation in scientific workshops and conferences or organization of such events. A diverse set of elective courses will help the doctoral candidate to acquire in addition transferable skills.
Learning outcomes
- A thorough understanding of research data, their origin, limitations, interpretation and potentially translation into everyday applications.
- Project -organization, -reporting and -innovation.
- Management, leadership and inclusiveness.
Admissions
Are you eligible to start the admission process in this Doctoral Programme?
Doctoral School candidates must have successfully completed university studies in natural sciences, bioinformatics, medicine, or veterinary medicine (Master or equivalent).
Candidates with a background in physics or mathematics are also being accepted, based on their motivation and potential for interdisciplinary research.
Applicants are required to render evidence of above-average results obtained at university. The applicant’s past career must reveal his/her particular qualification for and dedication to scientific work. A physician will provide evidence of such qualification and dedication by his/her highly expert doctoral thesis in human medicine. Admission will only be considered when funding of the salary/fellowship is guaranteed. Members of the Doctoral School commit to present exclusively candidates who full-fill these criteria.
For any other information not related to the admission process, please contact one of the administrators or the programme coordinator.
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