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The PhD Course in Clinical and Experimental Sciences aims to create researchers oriented towards a university career or employment in public/private research organisations or in manufacturing facilities, through the acquisition and development of investigation and research methods based on a multidisciplinary and translational approach to the main bio-medical topics that characterise its six curricula.

The approach to the bio-medical issues of the 6 curricula gives the course profound transversal aspects, not only because it is based on common research methodologies, but also because its primary objectives are similar and often overlapping. By way of example, the definition of the mechanisms of systemic inflammation and their manipulation for therapeutic purposes is a cross-cutting theme in rheumatic, liver and kidney diseases. Similarly, the topics of insulin resistance, obesity and steatohepatitis are common in the methodological approach to endocrine-metabolic sciences, hepatological/transplantological sciences and exercise medicine.

The development of the research plan and the training of each doctoral student is based over the three years of the Course on: a) continuous monitoring of the research activity by the supervisor and an annual review
by the entire teaching staff, b) teaching cycles transversal to the 6 Curricula aimed at providing a) theoretical-practical training in the new research and bio-imaging methodologies, b) a biostatic preparation and c) an adequate preparation for some specific aspects of the research activity such as the preparation of a research protocol, the application for funding, the critical reading of scientific literature, the development of collaborative activities with other centres, the drafting of a paper, and the choice of scientific journal to submit it to. All these training activities will be supported by the contribution of foreign lecturers and/or the doctoral student's stay at qualified national or international research laboratories. The Course timetable envisages two phases: a) first year: the acquisition or the consolidation of skills and autonomy in the methodologies inherent to the multidisciplinary and translational approach and b) second and third year: the design and implementation of a research project within the framework of the research lines offered by each curriculum and forming part of national and international research programmes.

The acquisition of the final objective by each doctoral student will be assessed through verification of his/her investigative autonomy and his/her ability to draft and discuss the preliminary/intermediate results of the research project and the final doctoral thesis, also in English, in the presence of both national and international experts. After obtaining the degree, many PhDs became researchers in Medical Area Departments, at private research organisations and institutions or medical managers at local and national hospitals.

  Curriculum

• HEMATOLOGICAL AND GERIATRIC SCIENCES
• RHEUMATOLOGICAL AND LABORATORY SCIENCES
• LIVER AND TRANSPLANT SCIENCES, RARE DISEASES AND AT HIGH BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPLEXITY
• ENDOCRINE-METABOLIC SCIENCES AND GENDER MEDICINE
• KIDNEY, PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND NUTRITION SCIENCES
• EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN NURSING AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

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