Biomedical Sciences

Dissertations focus on topics covering a broad spectrum of biomedical research, primarily in the fields of molecular medicine, biochemistry, pharmacology, physiology, molecular biology, and cell and tissue morphology. Doctoral students also receive training in the latest biomedical technologies.

The program’s concept emphasizes expanding future graduates’ competencies in socio-managerial, technological, and transferable skills, enabling them to conduct their subsequent research activities in an effective and modern manner and providing them with a thorough understanding of the ethical and moral aspects of research essential for work in biomedicine and research and development in general. Graduates find employment as top-tier researchers capable of succeeding in an international competitive environment.

The program also produces researchers and university faculty within the MU Faculty of Medicine; some graduates enter the corporate sector in fields related to their specialization. The program’s curriculum also significantly broadens graduates’ range of career opportunities in the non-academic sector (e.g., biotechnology companies).

The Biomedical Sciences program is continuously enhancing its internationalization by increasing the recruitment of international applicants, involving international supervisors and members of Thesis Advisory Committees, and through the research and publication activities of doctoral students. New conditions are being created for interdisciplinary approaches to assigned dissertation topics, and emphasis is placed on strengthening socio-managerial and transferable skills. Beyond standard supervision, systematic professional and methodological support is provided to students through the involvement of newly established Thesis Advisory Committees.

Upon successful completion of the programme, the graduate is able to:

• Have a perfect understanding of the latest developments in their given discipline-area;
• understand all related fields to their discipline, or eventually relatively quickly switch their focus area;
• be fluent in a wide spectrum of the theoretical and methodical foundations of scientific work;
• be as methodically, procedurally, and linguistically knowledgeable, as to be able to immediately fill the position of a post-doctoral researcher in state-of-the-art laboratories abroad, without the need for any further preparations;
• be very well educated about the facts in the areas of Intellectual Properties, Ethics, Scientific Work, and specific ethical issues related to their discipline;
• professionally lead junior colleagues;
• independently design and conduct research projects throughout all of their phases;
• interpret the results of their work up to the level of being able to present them at international conferences or having them published in a prestigious international science magazine;
• prepare a competitive application for grants;
• relay their experiences and results in the discipline through pedagogical activities, scholarly lectures, and scientific publications published in professional magazines;
• use modern technologies;
• develop their research results into practical applications.

The new Biomedical Sciences study programme is in the process of being internationally augmented through the increase of recruitment of applicants from abroad, scientific and publication activities of doctoral students, and creation of new conditions for inter-disciplinary solutions of given doctoral thesis topics. The strengthening of social-management and widely-applicable abilities is also emphasised.

This increases the realistic chance for the graduates to become a part of prestigious scientific teams all over the world, primarily in:

- Scientific research organisations and academic institutions (research institutes, universities) focusing on biomedical research and education - in their early years as interns and then as the heads of the research team or programme, or heads of the core facilities etc. Some of the graduates will be able to fill teaching positions at these institutions;

- State-of-the-art applied research laboratories focused on the development of new Biomedical methods, especially methods of diagnosis in Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering, testing new pharmaceuticals, and preparing pharmaceuticals intended for advanced therapies (ATMP). In this context they will be able to fill the positions of specialists and developers;

- In the commercial sector, specifically the areas of training regarding the marketing of pharmaceuticals intended for Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering, and Morphological Diagnostics;

- Furthermore, thanks to their knowledge of the aspects of intellectual properties and transfer of technologies, the graduates will be well equipped to found start-ups and spin-offs.

Applied practice is not a mandatory component of the studies (excluding lab work).

The standards of dissertation theses at LF MU are regulated by the Dean's Directive No. 5/2021 "Guidelines on the formal requirements of dissertation theses prepared at the MU Faculty of Medicine"

https://www.med.muni.cz/do/med/uredni_deska/pravni_normy/smernice_dekana/2021/VYPRACOVANYCH_NA_LEKARSKE_FAKULTE_MU