• Apply scientific methodology to test hypotheses in the biomedical field
• Present the objectives, development and results of biomedical research to a specialized or general audience
• Understand the management process of biomedical projects and international teams
• Evaluate the feasibility of a biomedical research project
• Anticipate the ethical implications of a biomedical research project

The MELIS department is located at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona - PRBB) and includes a large number of research groups organized into four research programmes which cover the following research lines:

• Cell and Molecular Biology
• Molecular Medicine
• Evolutionary Biology and Complex Systems
• Biomedical Informatics
• Genetics 
• Neurosciences
• Systems Bioengineering
• Public Health and Education in Health Sciences 
• Science Communication 
• Clinical and Translational Research

The PRBB gathers over 1,400 people from more than 50 different countries to conduct cutting-edge research and transfer it to society. The PRBB provides us with a high excellence scientific environment, regular scientific seminars, a Continuing Professional Development Program (Intervals) 

Alliances

MELIS has made a big effort to establish important strategic alliances with surrounding research institutes affiliated to the UPF such as:

• Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS Global)
• Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
• Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM)
• Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)
• Pasqual Maragall Foundation (FPM)
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

These alliances have allowed us to increase the scientific critical mass of scientists in several areas of research with some of our Faculty members performing their research in these institutes.

Research funding

The MELIS has evolved to achieve excellence and international leadership in Cell and Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology and Neurosciences, gathering substantial external funding from competitive sources and research contracts with industry, both national and international, of over 10 million Euros per year. Also, the number of scientific articles produced by the MELIS has beenincreasing to a total of more than 1,000 articles in last 5 years.

Performance Evaluation

Thanks to an international external advisory board, there is a continuous evaluation process of the scientific production of our Faculty, Research groups, Programs, Board of Directors and the Recruitment policies. We think that this constitutes a leading path for public universities if they aim to compete with research institutes for quality on research.

• The contents of this doctoral programme have been verified by the Catalan Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (AQU Catalonia) with a qualificaton "Quality Label towards Excellence".
• The contents of this doctoral programme have been verified by the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) who also awarded a "Quality Label towards Excellence" (MEE2011-0323).

Reports

• Doctoral Programme Report 2013-2014
• Doctoral Programme Report 2014-2015
• Doctoral Programme Report 2018

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