Health biology

The programme introduces students to the main causes of human pathology and the modern diagnostic methods that aim to identify and prevent them and monitor the therapy applied to the clinical condition diagnosed.

From this basic knowledge, the programme then focuses on specific aspects:

- diagnostics: students learn the most common analysis techniques based on biospecific reagents, methods of microbiological diagnosis of infectious diseases, virology and parasitology diagnostics, methodical approaches to analyse Mendelian and complex genetic traits and the advanced molecular diagnostic techniques applied to oncology, forensic methods;

- nutrition: students acquire the physiological basics of nutritional science and learn the correlations between unhealthy eating habits and different pathologies; they also learn the cell and molecular basics of nutrient-related diseases;

- pharmacology: students learn the processes and essential principles that regulate drug development and the methods used to carry out regulated clinical trials;

- biology laboratory management: students further develop their knowledge in relation to quality control and certification in biology laboratories.

Admission to the degree programme in Health Biology requires possession of a first cycle degree acquired in one of the classes provided by Ministerial Decree 270/04, Ministerial Decree 509/99, Law508/99, or of a first cycle degree acquired under the previous system, or of abachelor degree awarded after three years of study, or of a foreign qualification recognised as suitable. Additionally, it requires possession of curricular requirements and to have passed an assessment test.

Curricular requirements

In addition to the mentioned degrees,candidates must have acquired 40 CFU in four or more of the following scientific sectors (SSD):

BIO/09 Physiology, BIO/10 Biochemistry, BIO/14 Pharmacology, BIO/16 Human Anatomy, BIO/18 Genetics, BIO/19Microbiology, MED/04 General Pathology, MED/42 General and Applied Hygiene.

Assessment test
Admission to the second degree programme requires candidates to pass an assessment test that will be held according to the methods defined in theTeaching Regulation of the degree programme.

Additionally, candidates will be tested ontheir English language skills, proficiency level B1.