Drug Innovation

This will ultimately lead to the molecules, methods, concepts and approaches, which are so indispensable for the successful outcome of drug development in the pharmaceutical industry and medicines used in society.

Features

• The focus is shifting to the high hanging fruit of peptides, proteins, nucleotides and even more advanced medical products like (stem) cells.
• These Future Medicines offer major scientific challenges for translation. For example, the key success factor for gene therapy and exon skipping is successful delivery to cells.

Programme Structure

Curriculum:

• The five research groups of UIPS (see figure) have their different specialties.
• The Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery group makes mimics of proteins, carbohydrates and peptides.
• The Pharmaceutics group targets proteins and genes to cells and innovates the regulation of biotech products.
• The Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics group excels in proteomics of stem cells, biomarkers and glycoprotein analysis.
• The Pharmacology group focuses on immune and microbiome modulation by medical nutrition, but also on regenerative medicine and organ-on-a-chip technology.

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

• TOEFL iBT: 100
• PTE Academic: 70
• IELTS: 7

General requirements

• The PhD programme is open to candidates having a Dutch or equivalent international MSc in Life Sciences (e.g. Pharmaceutical, Chemical or Biomedical Sciences).
• Depending on the research project the PhD student is entering, he/she should have the required theoretical and lab-skill background.
• PhD candidates should be team-players with good communication skills, should have a high degree of achievement drive and initiative and should have a good knowledge of English (both writing and speaking).

Tuition Fees

Unlike PhD students directly employed by the university, fellowship and external PhD students are required to pay a tuition fee.

Duration

Full-time — 36 months. A PhD trajectory starts at any point throughout the year.