Passing the study plan

Graduates of Master's degree programmes who have obtained the "Master" degree may take the State Rigorous Examination in Computational Biology and Biomedicine. After passing this examination, the academic title "Doctor of Natural Sciences", abbreviated as "RNDr.", is awarded in the field of natural sciences.

The State Rigorous Examination has three components:
1. biology: the range of topics corresponds to the specialisation part of the Master's degree in Computational Biology and Biomedicine.
2. mathematics: the range of topics corresponds to the mathematical part of the Master's degree in Computational Biology and Biomedicine.
3. defence of the thesis: the student is expected to demonstrate the ability to inventively apply mathematical methods to address a specific biological or clinical question, to produce a coherent scientific work, and to discuss the results and conclusions with the already published literature.

More information can be found at: https://www.sci.muni.cz/student/rigorozni-rizeni

Suggestion of potential theses topics:
- Trends in 5-year survival of cancer patients adjusted for key clinical characteristics
- Model-based evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of colorectal screening based on available data in the Czech Republic
- Non-interventional clinical trials focusing on lung disease as a tool for introducing innovations in the health system
- Evaluation and significance of temporal sequencing of population screening programmes in primary care

Topics of defended theses (under the previous accreditation of the Computational Biology study programme):
- 2017 - Roman Vyškovský - Toolbox for Brain Image Recognition Using Artificial Neural Networks: https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/dawy5/
- 2014 - Denisa Krejčí - Assessment of competing risks in patients with diabetes: https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/t7m3t/
- 2011 - Michaela Cvanová - Selected statistical methods for evaluation of genetic data in the examples: https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/siaot/
- 2011 - Simona Littnerová - Propensity score: new dimension of mortality data analysis: https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/l1zx8/
- 2010 - Eva Koriťáková - A Novel MATLAB Toolbox for Analysis of Brain MRI Data: https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/s4w8k/

Already defended theses can be found in IS MU, where they can be searched by faculty, year, department, field/plan: https://is.muni.cz/thesis/