Master in Biomedicine and PhD in Biomedicine and Health Sciences
Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
Learning type(s): In Person
Language(s): English, Portuguese
Duration: The Master in Biomedicine (MBiomed) has a duration of two years (120 ECTS) full-time; The PhD program offers a four-year study plan (240 ECTS), full-time program, or a part-time program (with the same ECTS) that lasts longer.
Degrees available: MSc, PhD
Domains: Cognition and Neural Network, Motivation, Emotion and Behaviour, Neurodegenerative Disorders and Pathological Aging, Neurogenesis and Development, Neurons and Glia: Intrinsic Properties, Cell Biology and Cell Types, Psychiatric and Cognitive Disorders
Subdomains: Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, Anatomy, Animal behaviour, Animal studies, Ataxias, Developmental disorders, Electrophysiology, Glia-neuron interactions, Human studies, Imaging methods, Learning and memory, Molecular signals and their receptors, Multisensory integration, Neural circuit motifs, Neuro-oncology, Neurogenesis and gliogenesis, Neuroimmunology, Neurotransmitters and their receptors, Pain, Parkinson's disease, Population coding, Psychiatric disorders, Social cognition and behavior, Stress and the brain, Synaptic transmission
Description of the school programmmes:
The Master in Biomedicine (MBiomed) has a duration of two years (120 ECTS) full-time.
The PhD program offers a four-year study plan (240 ECTS), full-time program, or a part-time program (with the same ECTS) that lasts longer. In the first year, the program includes a mandatory curricular unit dedicated to designing the PhD project (15 ECTS) and three optional curricular units (15 ECTS total), that can be selected from a wide range of options. The remaining 210 ECTS are dedicated to the thesis, to be carried out during the four years of the study plan. The program is very flexible, to allow students to shape their training in accordance with previous background and competences, research interests and aims.