PhD programs
The department of Oncology offers two PhD programs:
PhD in Complex Systems for Quantitative Biomedicine
The PhD programme in Complex Systems for Quantitative Biomedicine offers a strong interdisciplinary training through research projects in the area of Systems Biology. We use a combined computational and experimental approach supported by theoretical modelling, rooted in theoretical physics, engineering and mathematics. The full integration between biomedicine and exact sciences is the ground of contemporary approaches to complex biological systems. This curriculum is for Graduate Students in Biology, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine and Computer Science. Research projects include Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics, molecular regulatory networks and mathematical modeling of phenomena ranging from basic cell biology problems up to population genetics, with a major focus on human disease including cancer.
The Coordinator of the PhD course is prof. Enzo Medico.
International PhD Programme in Translational Oncology
The biological features of cancer represent the best training ground for the paradigm of Precision Medicine: ensure that the right treatment is delivered to the right patient at the right time. However, despite relevant initial promises, precision medicine progress is blunted by several problems encompassing the lack of robust biomarkers, the poor knowledge of cancer biology and its interplay with the host, the difficult about how to interpret diagnostic test results, the uncertainty of the molecular stratification of the patients. To foster oncological precision medicine a new deal between clinical and basic sciences is required and must be relied on the response of the basic research to precise clinical queries. “From the bed to the bench” is the motto of the International PhD Programme in Translational Oncolog. The Program offers a strong interdisciplinary training through research projects that stem from relevant clinical questions connected with the precision medicine paradigm, offer answers based on the improvement on the knowledge of the mechanisms sustaining cancer onset and progression and finally foster the achievement of solid information to be exploited in a clinical setting. The full integration between Biomedicine and exact sciences is the ground of contemporary approaches to overcome the current limit of precision medicine. This curriculum is for Graduate Students in Medicine, Biology, Biotechnology, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering and Computer Science.
The Coordinator of the PhD course is prof. Federico Bussolino.