Thematic Doctoral Programmes in Life Sciences (PhD)

The CVM-PhD programme proposes a specific postgraduate training for students preparing a PhD or a MD-PhD thesis in the field of Cardiovascular and Metabolic disorders. Cardiovascular diseases are responsible for a large part of the mortality and morbidity in industrialized countries. The majority of these diseases are a direct consequence of metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes.

A great deal of research efforts are undertaken in the academic world as well as in the industry to try to improve the diagnosis, care and treatment of these diseases. The improvement of the medical care for these diseases is highly dependent on advances in fundamental research in molecular and cellular biology, physiology, biochemistry.

In order to ensure that the best researchers, teachers and entrepreneurs will be active in this field; also in order to offer the best training in the fields of biology oriented towards medical applications; the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne has organized a thematic training PhD programme in the field of the cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

Required ECTS credits : 12 ECTS

For more information, please check our website :
www.unil.ch/edcvm

Or contact :
Dr Slavica Masina: Slavica.Masina@unil.ch

To register in the programme, print the formular, fill it in and forward it to Dr. Slavica Masina.

The field of ecology and evolutionary biology is well established in western Switzerland, with about thirty research groups distributed between the Universities of Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel. Thanks to the financial support offered from the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO), these five Universities decided to join their efforts and expertise to establish a new Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution.

The Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution aims to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and scientific methods through seminars and workshops to which foreign experts will be invited. The doctoral program will also allow doctoral students to improve their aptitude for communication about their research, and offers a possibility to improve scientific English. Furthermore, the school encourages the doctoral students to acquire experience in the organization of their own scientific events (congress, seminars) and to establish networks of collaboration.

Required ECTS credits : 12 ECTS

For more information, please check our website :
http://biologie.cuso.ch/ecologie-evolution/welcome/

Or contact :
Dr Nadia Bruyndonckx : Nadia.Bruyndonckx@unil.ch

To register in the programme, please click on the link

This PhD Program focuses on interdisciplinary training, research in basic areas of modern cancer biology and immunology, and possible exciting connections with clinical problems. The research carried out by the participating laboratories covers a wide range of areas in cancer cell biology and immunology, such as: stem cells and cancer stem cells, cancer and development, epithelial-stromal interactions, angiogenesis, cancer epigenetics, chromatin structure and function, cell cycle control mechanisms and DNA repair, cancer immunology, innate and adaptive immunology, cellular and molecular immunology, vaccine development, HIV infection and parasitology (malaria and leishmania).

Strongly motivated students worldwide are selected twice a year through a two-step competitive selection procedure. The expected time to degree is four years. The program designed for PhD students includes advanced workcourses, lectures, workshops and summer courses (in English), devoted to Cancer and Immunology, plus the possibility of practical training.

Required ECTS credits : 12 ECTS

For more information, please check our website :
www.unil.ch/cancer-immunology

Or contact :
Ms Françoise Flejszman : Francoise.Flejszman@unil.ch

To register in the programme, please click on the link

The IECB program, working in close association with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics-SIB, provides training and experience in the reasoning, logic and abilities inherent to both experimental and computational approaches and educates students in quantitative analysis of biological questions.

Students are offered instruction in genome-wide and proteome-wide data analysis, biological modelling, quantitative image analysis, programming and statistics, in addition to a thorough education in experimental biology, through a didactic program that complements both their individual research topic and background. Thus, PhD students become conversant in both experimental and computational approaches and acquire the ability to integrate quantitative and experimental methods in their own research. Graduates from this program will have unprecedented scientific competence to permit them to become future leaders in biological research and beyond.
 

Required ECTS credits : 12 ECTS

For more information, please check our website :
www.unil.ch/iecb

Or contact :
Dr Keith Harshman : Keith.Harshman (at) unil.ch

To register in the programme, please click on the link

In Switzerland and elsewhere, the past decade has seen a remarkable expansion of Microbial Sciences with a major impact on fundamental and applied life sciences and medicine. The Universities of Western Switzerland represent major poles of research in Microbial Sciences in the disciplines of bacteriology, virology, microbial ecology, and mycology with high-profile research groups. Together with EPFL and the University of Bern, they organise an overreaching program for training at the doctoral level, including scientific and technical training modules in fundamental and applied microbiology: the "Doctoral Program in Microbial Sciences" of the Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale (CUSO).

Within the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne, the Institute of Microbiology and the Department of Fundamental Microbiology are active in this process and they invite the PhD and MD-PhD doctoral students of the Faculty to participate in the thematic program Microbial Sciences of the FBM.

Required ECTS credits : 12 ECTS

For more information, please check our website :
FBM Doctoral Programme in Microbial Sciences

Or contact :
Dr Sylvia Rothenberger : Sylvia.Rothenberger-Aubert@chuv.ch

Registration form for the microbial sciences programme :
Please print, complete and send it to Dr. Sylvia Rothenberger.