Master's degree in Medical Bioinformatics

The objective of the Master's Degree in Medical Bioinformatics is to train graduates capable of performing management and coordination roles in the design, development, management, and maintenance of information systems in medicine, biology, and healthcare. This focus is on complex biomedical software oriented toward scientific and technological innovation for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, complex information systems for managing clinical and bioinformatics databases, software for processing medical and biological data in clinical decision support systems, healthcare information systems with heterogeneous and complex architectures, and visual interfaces for bioinformatics.

Toward this goal, the Master's Degree in Medical Bioinformatics - Medical Bioinformatics will therefore provide the multi- and interdisciplinary theoretical, methodological, and technological foundations needed to address the problems associated with the design, analysis, and development of complex intelligent systems in bioinformatics and medical informatics.

The specific educational objectives of the master's degree program can therefore be structured as follows:

- theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied knowledge and skills in the fundamental areas of computer science, with particular reference to the applied domains of biology and medicine;

- knowledge of data and process design techniques and methods for the creation of information systems in the bioinformatics-genomics and medical fields;

- knowledge of information systems, processing systems, and methods for managing and mining bioinformatics and medical data;

- knowledge of the main software platforms, sequencing techniques, publicly available bioinformatics databases, and standards used for data representation and communication;

- ability to design, implement, and integrate software modules for typical problems in genome analysis and the structuring of web services for the management of biological and clinical data;

- ability to identify suitable components and tools for solving complex bioinformatics and medical informatics problems, where interdisciplinary skills must be integrated.

Due to the typically international nature of the scientific, technical, and economic context of information technology and its applications in medicine and healthcare, the training program will be offered entirely in English.

The curriculum, consistent with the stated educational objectives, is designed to explore the theoretical, methodological, and technological aspects of informatics disciplines as they apply to the biological and medical fields, and to provide the biological and medical knowledge needed to confidently address these complex application domains.

To this end, the curriculum includes, in the first year, courses in the area of ​​core competencies, which provide students with the foundational and transversal skills essential for a master's degree in informatics and indispensable for tackling specialized applications in the biomedical field. The first year also includes courses that provide students with a thorough understanding of the biological and medical knowledge required for the Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics areas.

The second year therefore involves completing the student's knowledge and skills in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics with specific computer science courses focusing on aspects such as architectures for biological data processing, genomic sequence analysis and natural computation models, and healthcare information systems, data analysis techniques to support clinical decisions, and biomedical image processing, respectively.

The curriculum is then rounded out by elective courses and additional training activities related to language skills and internships. The final exam consists of the development of a thesis, which requires the student to undertake research, formalization, design, or development work. This work will contribute significantly to the completion of their technical and scientific education.