System medicine

The Medicine field is going through a cultural revolution, pressed by the new knowledge emerging from the fundamental biology (molecular biology, and, more recently, genomics). This knowledge has brought to the development of the Personalized Medicine, based on the identification of the mechanisms in the disease, specific to the given disease and to the patient, and the consequent molecular treatments. Although the Personalized Medicine changed the story of some diseases, for some others there exists a rising discrepancy between the scientific discoveries and their turning into a benefit for the patient. This discrepancy is considered a problem by both the scientific community and the society. The aim of the PhD course is the training of a new generation of basic researchers, able to follow the changes occurring in the biomedicine.

The fundamental elements of the training program are:

· the introduction of basic subjects (mathematics, physics, informatics, statistics);
· the teaching of new models of Translational Research, where the basic researchers work along with the clinicians on the same biomedical problems;
· the foundation of a humanistic culture of the new scientific discoveries (foundational, ethical and sociological basis) and the operative tools (cognitive sciences) which allow the new scientists to interact with the society (patients, policy-makers).