Study programme

You will spend ten weeks completing compulsory theoretical courses.  

Electives enable you to increase your knowledge within your field of interest or (in part) to address educational deficiencies.

Students are required to complete a major research project. 

Profiles take up a big part of your 2^nd year and can be viewed as the minor in your Master’s. They are designed to equip you with skills for your next step while studying. You select 1 out of 9 profiles, all with an own theme and focus. You can choose profiles that provide you with a broad skill set and help you prepare for a business, educational or societal career, or profiles that provide you with in-depth research skills, catering for a research career. The options include:

1. Applied Data Science profile
2. Bioinformatics profile
3. Communication profile
4. Complex Systems profile
5. Education profile
6. General Research profile
7. Life Science and Society profile
8. Management profile
9. Translational Life Sciences profile

During the course of the Master’s programme, you are required to attend the Introducing Life Sciences week, at least seven Life Sciences seminars, and three workshops of the Navigation Towards Personal Excellence programme.

This writing assignment may consist of either a clear and thorough overview of recent literature, concluded by an in-depth discussion, or a PhD grant proposal.

Courses for academic year 2023-2024

• Kick off Cardiovascular Health & Disease (mandatory)
• Biomolecular and Cellular Cardiology
• Cardiac Regenerative Medicine
• Cardiovascular Immunology
• Thrombosis and Haemostasis
• Vascularized Tissue Engineering

Note: The compulsory courses for this master programme are currently being revised. From September 2024 the coursework consists of one 10-week course at the start of the master programme. Topics and skills from current courses will be processed in this new course.

• Academic Writing (online course)
• Basics of Biostatistics
• Better Science with less animal experimentation
• Bio-inspired Essentials
• Bio-tech-med Interdisciplinary Team Training (BITT Project)
• Career orientation and Professional Skills Training
• Communicating Life Sciences
• English for Academic Purposes (online course)
• Essentials of Neuroscience
• Fundamentals of Biofabrication (online course)
• History of Medicine
• Introduction to Designing & Teaching in higher education
• Laboratory Animal Sciences
• Career orientation & Professional Skills Training
• Online course Radiation protection - ELO on open sources
• Philosophy of Neuroscience
• Science and Society
• Thematic Interdisciplinary Challenge
• Vascularized Tissue Engineering Online Course