Master in Biosciences and Biotechnology

The Graduate Program in Biosciences and Biotechnology (PPG-BBio) has as its proposal teaching, and research aimed at multidisciplinary aspects in Biosciences and Biotechnology, consistent and coherent with the area of Pharmacy. The Program offers disciplines and activities of an innovative and current character, focused on the formation of students who will soon be in the regional, national, and international labor markets.

The PPG-BBio has two areas of concentration that include multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach, involving basic and applied research and technological innovation, as part of the planning for development in the face of national and international challenges in the knowledge generation. Thus, it offers training and lines of research in the areas:

• Immunology and Physiopathology
• Bioagents and Biotechnology applied to Pharmacy

The Masters of Sciences and PhDs graduated by PPG-BBio have multidisciplinary knowledge in the area, with the potential to contribute to the advance in the diagnosis and prevention of diseases, as well as to the development of new medicines and therapies. In addition, the alumni have critical and reflective sense, with leadership capacity, to occupy prominent positions in the labor market, performing the nucleation of new research groups or development of technical activities of high complexity, with the ability to the constant scientific update. Our alumni can work in the public and private sectors, acting in teaching, research, analysis laboratories, government agencies, regulatory bodies, universities, and pharmaceutical industries.