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Natural Sciences
Biology/Biochemistry
BSc Biology of Human & Environmental Health
3 years
€156 -, 2623 pa
Programme profile
The Universities of Padua and Bologna jointly offer an innovative, multidisciplinary degree programme, the first two years of which are held in Padua and include courses such as cellular and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics and computational biology, biostatistics, and physiology.
The third year is focused on the biological bases of diseases (in Padua) or on environmental influences on human health (in Bologna).
.The specificity of the degree programme is the advanced methodological connotation in the field of Biology, which is coupled with contents that deepen the knowledge on the consequences of global changes on human health.
Programme content
1st Year:
Fundamentals of mathematics; Chemistry; Principles of Biology; Physics with applications to biological systems; Biochemistry 1; Biochemistry 2; Biostatistics; Microbiology.
2nd Year:
Molecular Biology and Genetics; Cells, Tissues, Embryology and Development; Global Change and Human Biology; Computational methods in Bioinformatics; Anatomy and Physiology; Introduction to environmental health; Pathology.
3rd Year:
Human Health curriculum (at the University of Padua): Clinical and Molecular Biology; Human Genetics; Epidemiology, Public Health and Bioethics; Immunology and Immunopathology; Pharmacology and pharmacogenomics
Environmental Health curriculum (at the University of Bologna): Environmental Physiology; Botany and Plant Environment Interactions; Molecular basis of genome editing; Climate change microbiology in human health; Plant metabolism for human health and nutrition
Entry Requirements
3 A-Levels and 3 GCSEs (inc Biology)
Six passes at Leaving Certificate, inc 2 x H5 (inc Biology and Maths at H)
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15 March
06 September