RESEARCH TOPICS

Main research topics

Medical surgical sciences
General surgery
Psychosocial modulation of clinical outcomes
Patients' and healthcare professionals' quality of life and psychological wellbeing
Reconstructive problems in Maxillofacial Surgery
Dermatological surgery
Surgical treatment of malignant tumors
New technologies in endovascular surgery
Chronic liver disease and liver transplantation
Steroidomics and metabolomics applied to endocrine and metabolic diseases
Peri-operative nutrition
Safety of care in surgery
Biomarkers of physiological and accelerated ageing with or without age-related diseases, respectively
Regenerative medicine
Molecular Cardiology
Molecular oncology
Infections in fragile patients
Prosthetic infections

For research, PhD students can use operational and scientific structures, such as Equipment and/or Laboratories and institutional databases present in the Institutes included in the PhD in Surgical Sciences, in compliance with privacy regulations and the processing of personal data.
PhD students can carry out research using the book heritage of the Inter-department Library of Medicine and the University Library System and the databases of international scientific publications (PubMed, Scopus, WOS).