Italian second cycle master's degree (“Laurea Magistrale”, under D.M. 270/04 or “Laurea Specialistica”, under D.M. 509/99) or Italian degree obtained prior to D.M. 509/99 (the previous Italian regulations) or Second cycle Master's degree obtained abroad, equivalent to the above-mentioned Italian degrees and recognized as suitable for the admission to doctoral program.
Further information available in the Call.

The aim of the PhD Course is to provide a high scientific and methodological qualification in the field of molecular and regenerative medicine with the aim of:

1. Develop the scientific training of the PhD student through an integrated research activity with an interactive training activity that favors participation in monographic courses, seminars, journal club, critical reading, workshops, schools and / or intensive courses organized by Scientific Societies and/or National and International research bodies, scientific conferences;

2. Insert the PhD student in a fabric of relationships and constant exchanges with similar national and international research and higher education structures, with public and private bodies in order to open the PhD student to confrontation and competition.

3. Develop and enhance the skills of problem solving in the phases of design and execution of experimental activities, critical interpretation of their results and those present in the literature, working in a group.

4. Learn to develop a research project.

5. Learn to critically interpret the results of experiments and write a scientific work.

To achieve the objectives of the doctoral training project, the doctoral student is required, at the end of each year of the course, to make an oral presentation to the Board of Professors from which the scope and purposes in which the research activity carried out and that planned for the following year of the course are defined. At the end of the PhD course, the results related to the research activity carried out are the subject of a thesis to supplement and complete the works already subject to publication and/or submission.