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Presentation

The PhD in Biomedicine at the University of Córdoba is a high-quality training course, with a multidisciplinary scope and orientated towards professional work and research. It is aimed primarily at graduates in Medicine, Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and any other degrees related to Experimental and Health Sciences, and has the following objectives:

To train up outstanding professionals with a PhD in the basic principles related to cellular, molecular and physio-pathological diseases and in the search for new diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
To train them to use these techniques in the various areas and related fields of knowledge, enabling them to join research and development teams in laboratories of universities, hospitals, biomedical and/or biotechnology research centres or biotechnology companies.
To train them to follow a scientific career by learning scientific methods, planning and conducting experiments, interpreting results and drawing up conclusions which help to extend applied biomedical and/or biotechnological knowledge, thus contributing to resolving the main health issues in today’s society.

This Doctoral Program is supported by the Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research of Córdoba (IMIBIC) whose mission is "To develop and foster a multidisciplinary scientific environment in Biomedicine where research projects are carried out, integrating core groups with others whose objectives aim at translational research". IMIBIC has national accreditation from the Carlos III Health Institute as a Health Research Institute.

Coordinating Bodies

Coordinator

Manuel David Gahete Ortiz (Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.)

Departament Obesity, metabolism, cancer and radiogenomics
University of Córdoba

Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program

Manuel David Gahete Ortiz (Coordinator)

Obesity, metabolism, cancer and radiogenomics

Pablo Jesús López Soto. (Secretary)

Multidisciplinary research team in primary and community care, and in comprehensive care

Marco Antonio Calzado Canale

Immunology, cancer and cell therapy

Rocío Guzmán Ruiz

Obesity, metabolism, cancer and radiogenomics

María Jesús Vázquez Villar

Energy balance, puberty and reproductive function

Raúl M. Luque Huertas

Obesity, metabolism, cancer and radiogenomics

Clementina López Medina

Chronic inflammatory and systemic autoimmune diseases

Marina Álvarez Benito

Obesity, metabolism, cancer and radiogenomics

Quality Assurance Unit

María Jesús Vázquez Villar (Coordinadora de la UGC)
Pablo Jesús López Soto (Secretario)
Elena Pérez Nadales
Ernesto Mejías Pérez
María Encarnación Rodríguez Ortiz
Manuel David Gahete Ortiz
David Luna Gómez (PTAS)
Irene Aguilera Ventura (Estudiante doctorado)

Collaboration Agreements

Permanent collaboration agreements with:

Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research of Córdoba (IMIBIC)

Reina Sofía University Hospital of Córdoba (HURS)

Collaboration agreements with National and overseas research centres:

Collaboration agreements with national and foreign research centres are common, and mostly occur in specific lines of research and for stays for doctoral students of both sexes to obtain theses with an International Mention.

In the area of Biomedicine, the University of Córdoba has institutional agreements with:

- University of Cali (Colombia)

Ibero-American Postgraduate University Association

Specific collaboration to implement a training program for doctors in the field of biosciences, biomedicine and food sciences

- University of Rotterdam (Netherlands)

JOINT TUTORING OF THESIS

Institutional agreement between FIBICO-IMIBIC and University of Caldas (Colombia)

Listed below are agreements, general collaboration frameworks and specific exchange frameworks between the University of Córdoba and national and overseas research centres, which offer possibilities for collaborative research and the opening of specific agreements for the PhD Program.

Title Data

ACADEMIC LEVEL
Doctorate - RD 99/2011

ISCED AREAS
ISCED 1.- Medicine
ISCED 2.- Biology and Biochemistry

UNIVERSITY
University of Córdoba

CENTER
EDUCO - Escuela de Doctorado de la Universidad de Córdoba

AVAILABILITY
50

LANGUAGES
Spanish
English

VERIFICATION MEMORY
Memoria

COORDINATION
Manuel David Gahete Ortiz
bc2gaorm@uco.es

Obesity metabolism, cancer and radiogenomics
University of Córdoba

Access

Access and Admission

Availability

COURSE	AVAILABILITY	NEW ENROLLMENT	TOTAL ENROLLMENTS
2019/2020	50	57	225
2020/2021	50	42	242
2021/2022	50	68	253
2022/2023	50	71	268
2023/2024	50	65	298

Access and Admission

On the general IDEP-Doctorate website, in the section entitled ‘Acceso’ (‘Access’), can be found the Modalidades de Acceso a los estudios de Doctorado / Ways of Accessing the PhD course, together with the Procesos, documentación y Plazos para la admisión / Processes, Documentation and Deadlines for Admission.

To contact those responsible for each research line/team and look for a possible PhD Thesis Tutor, which is an essential requirement to apply for admission to this PhD Program, please refer to list of teaching staff below, and the research lines/teams which currently make up the main body of the Doctorate Program, as well as the emails of the line/team managers. The e-mails of other teachers can be found using the search engine “BUSCAR PERSONAS” / "SEARCH PEOPLE" on the UCO website home page.

A number of research Master's degrees can also give direct access to this PhD Program, as follows:

Master’s Degree in Translational Biomedical Research
Master’s Degree in Biotechnology
Master’s Degree in Human Nutrition

Students who have completed other research master's degrees than those listed which give direct access to this PhD Program are required to present full documentation of the course when requesting Admission. The PhD Program Academic Committee (CAPD) will then decide on whether the applicant must carry out Additional Training, which can either be completed prior to admission to the PhD or during the first year of the PhD.

Additional Training

The general IDEP-Doctorate website, in the Access section, shows information about the Complementos de Formación / Additional Training which the CAPD may require applicants for the PhD Program to carry out, depending on their previous training. The CAPD will decide, in each case, on the Additional Training which each PhD student must carry out.

Rules of Permanence

Rules of permanence

The rules of permanence in this Doctorate Program are regulated by Royal Decree 99/2011 and in particular, by the Regulations for Doctoral Studies, which are approved by the Governing Council. Both documents can be found in the Impresos, normativa y certificaciones / Forms, Regulations and Certificates section of the IDEP-Doctorate website. The key points are summarized in the section Régimen de permanencia / Rules of Permanence on the same website.

information on type

Information on type

The PhD in Biomedicine at the University of Córdoba is a high quality, multidisciplinary training course, oriented towards professional work and research.

Registration

Information about access and registration

Grants/Scholarships

For your information on Grants/Scholarships, see the following link:

Org. and Planning

Organization and Planning

Competences

Click on the following link for the Competences of the Doctorate Program in Biomedicine.

Link

Thesis

Thesis - supervision and presentation

The PhD studies leading to the defence of a Doctoral Thesis and obtaining a Doctorate Degree at the University of Córdoba are supervised on a regular basis by the Tutors and Directors of each doctoral student, and are evaluated annually by the Doctoral Program Academic Committees, as shown on the general IDEP-Doctorate website (Section: Evaluación Anual / Annual Evaluation). If a doctoral student does not meet the requirements of this evaluation, for which they are given two opportunities, they will be obliged to permanently withdraw from the PhD program.

In the general IDEP-Doctorate website (Section: Tesis Doctoral / Doctoral Thesis), full information can be found about presenting the thesis, general requirements, types of theses, who makes up the panel of judges, documentation required, defence, etc.

In addition to these sections, the PhD Program has approved additional requirements for some types of theses. In all cases, the basic requirement is that at least one of the scientific contributions derived from the thesis has been published in an international journal with an impact index included in the Journal Citation Reports. The PhD student must appear as first author of the publication, or second if the first author is the director of the thesis. (See document in section: Reglamento / Regulations, right-hand column)

Tutors, direction and co-supervision of thesis

In order to carry out their PhD studies at the UCO, PhD students must have a tutor and at least one Director (this may be the same person as the tutor, if they belong to the UCO and student and tutor so wish). In some cases, students may request that the CAPD approve two professors or, exceptionally, up to three, as joint directors of one thesis. Full information about this choice can be found on the general IDEP-Doctorate website (Section: Dirección de Tesis Doctoral / Management of PhD Thesis).

The same page shows a list of the research lines/teams which currently form the PhD Program; the line/team managers and researchers who make up the teams are alsoLa presentación y lectura de la tesis se realizará según los establecido en la normativa que regula los estudios de doctorado de la UCO, siguiendo el procedimiento que puede encontrarse en el siguiente enlace.

Industrial PhD

This PhD program offers the possibility of pursuing industrial doctorates through agreements with various companies. These collaborations may already be active or can be initiated at the request of interested parties (PhD candidates and/or companies). Specifically, agreements are currently in place with the following companies:

PHYSIOBALANCE (https://www.physio-balance.es/): a physiotherapy clinic specialized in the treatment of neurological and musculoskeletal conditions. The company provides access to consumable materials, infrastructure, and facilities necessary for the development of research project activities, ensuring full access to its premises for the entire duration of the project.

CLÍNICA DE FISIOTERAPIA Y REHABILITACIÓN GEMA LEÓN, S.L. (https://fisioterapiagemaleon.com/): a multidisciplinary physiotherapy clinic equipped with the personnel and facilities required for clinical activity. The clinic collaborates with professionals in patient care and in the research and development of new techniques and treatments. It guarantees full access to its facilities for the entire duration of the research project, and provides the necessary consumables, infrastructure, and equipment for carrying out the project's research tasks.

Courses and educational activities

Activities

The training plan of the PhD Program in Biomedicine follows a common structure that ensures all doctoral students receive training in the acquisition of essential competencies: Study subjects, Conceptual frameworks, Research strategies, Research skills, Structured transmission, Dissemination (in both scientific and social contexts), and research and knowledge Translation/ Transfer.

Based on a proposal by the PhD candidate, and with the approval of the Thesis Supervisor, the Academic Committee will authorize a personalized Training Plan. This plan will include the compulsory activities and at least one of the optional activities listed below, to be completed during the entire duration of the PhD studies.

The form to submit the Training Plan proposal for this PhD Program is available here: Biomedicine Training Plan

Additionally, a detailed PhD Program Guide is available here

In order to proceed with the thesis defense, it is mandatory to have completed the approved Training Plan. Therefore, when submitting the request for thesis approval, documentation certifying completion of the training activities must be provided (if not submitted previously).

The monitoring and documentation of the activities carried out during the PhD studies must follow the procedures and deadlines established by the University of Córdoba (UCO), using the corresponding digital platforms.

Below is a description of the training activities included in this Program:

Compulsory activities:

• Seminar Series of the Maimonides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba (IMIBIC)
(As of the 2020/2021 academic year, the activity "Alternative Training Plan to the compulsory activity Seminar Series of IMIBIC" is in effect)
Description seminars via videoconference
• Participation in complementary training courses (transversal and/or specialized)
• Attendance at the IMIBIC Young Researchers’ conference
• Complementary mobility activity for specialized training

Optional activities:

• Research stays abroad
• Attendance at international conferences
• Participation in teaching support activities
• Research and knowledge transfer activities in collaboration with companies

Form for submitting the Training Plan
Biomedicine Training Plan

Courses

▼ Course 2025/2026

Aspectos éticos y legales en la gestión y utilización de muestras biológicas humanas.

▼ Course 2024/2025

▼ Course 2023/2024

▼ Course 2022/2023

▼ Course 2021/2022

▼ Course 2020/2021

▼ Course 2019/2020

▼ Course 2018/2019

Research Lines and Teams

Mechanisms for Recognizing Supervision and Thesis Advising Work

These mechanisms are established in Article 22.9 of the Regulations Governing Doctoral Studies and in Article 8 of the Regulations for the Recognition of Teaching, Research, and Administrative Activities of Academic Staff.

DPBiomedicine Supervisors and Advisors Data

Active Research Projects 2019–2024 – DPBiomedicine

Quality

Quality policy of the PhD Programme in Biomedicine

The PhD Programme in Biomedicine adopts a Quality Policy aligned with the Strategic Plan and Statutes of the University of Córdoba (UCO), with the aim of developing strategies that ensure the efficient operation of the training programme and foster the trust required for the accreditation process of the degree.

The PhD Programme in Biomedicine is committed to excellence, with a focus on:

• Offering doctoral training that meets societal demands, integrating new technologies into the teaching and learning process to enhance graduates’ employability and attract both national and international students.

• Consolidating research activities that respond to societal needs, guided by scientific excellence and international projection.

• Collaborating with the socio-economic environment to promote knowledge transfer, entrepreneurship, innovation, and internationalisation.

• Being a benchmark in social commitment, ethical behaviour, transparency, and continuous improvement.

The programme coordinators believe that fostering a culture of quality is essential to meet the needs and expectations of all stakeholders. Therefore, they are committed to ensuring continuous improvement of the quality and management of the teaching and learning process through the Quality Assurance System, in line with the standards of the European Higher Education Area and the strategic goals of the Graduate Studies Institute and the University of Córdoba.