TRAINING OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the PhD concern the learning of knowledge and research methodologies aimed at the production of scientific knowledge of basic, clinical and applicative processes, which fall within the area of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Innovative Technologies.The PhD student will be included in a training course aimed at acquiring autonomy in formulating questions and hypotheses, planning research designs, operationalizing constructs and variables and finally choosing the appropriate data analysis, with the ultimate goal of increasing the validity and reliability of the conclusions and reducing the possibility of inferential biases.
The PhD student will be included in a training course aimed at acquiring autonomy in formulating questions and hypotheses, planning research designs, operationalizing constructs and variables and finally choosing the appropriate data analysis, with the ultimate goal of increasing the validity and reliability of the conclusions and reducing the possibility of inferential biases.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the possibility of acquiring knowledge and making use of innovative technologies and methods will be promoted to facilitate the implementation of such knowledge in clinical practice.
Research topics include basic, biomolecular research, targeted and untargeted characterization of hormones and small molecules in biological fluids by mass spectrometry (steroidomic and metabolomics), bioengineering, clinical research, the development of microinvasive/endoscopic surgical techniques, the creation of 3D virtual models of anatomical portions and the understanding of the psychological mechanisms underlying pain perception, subjective experience, quality of life and factors modulating the clinical outcomes of patients undergoing surgical interventions and / or complex therapeutic procedures.
To achieve these aims, a board of professors is proposed in which transversal skills are represented to the disciplines underlying the research topics covered by the doctorate.
For several years the professors belonging to the Doctorate have been collaborating with each other and with the most qualified national and international Departments, integrating the different theoretical, methodological and clinical skills.
CONSISTENCY WITH TRAINING OBJECTIVES
The PhD in Surgical Sciences and Technological Innovation sees the assignment of a scholarships financed with PNRR funds.
For objectives and research areas, this grant may be compatible with the Large Areas of Intervention 5. Health and economic, social and institutional resilience, 3. Digital transformation, 2. Green transition.
In particular, research projects related to the M6C1 Missions (Proximity Networks, Structures and Telemedicine for Territorial Health Care) and M6C2 (Innovation, Research and Digitization of the NHS) Missions, as well as M4C2 (From Research to Business) can be carried out.
The specific themes, within the areas related to Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Technologies, Biotechnologies, Health Technologies, may be those of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Access to the NHS, Quality of Life, Regenerative, Predictive and Personalized Medicine, New Technologies and Innovative Technologies for Tissue Reconstruction.
The populations concerned may be the general population, surgical patients and those with tissue degeneration (in particular in the cardiovascular, orthopedic, ophthalmological, gastrointestinal, dermatological fields), patients with chronic and degenerative diseases.
ACTIVITIES
The training course includes attendance and research activities to be carried out in the laboratories of dermatatopathology, pathology and molecular and hemodynamic biology, ultrasound clinics, departments and operating rooms of the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine of the University of Bologna. Instrumental diagnostic techniques will be developed during the course in particular in ultrasonographic, techniques of cellular culture, cytopathology aand ultrastructural pathology, and the most modern surgical techniques such as for dermatology surgery according to MOHS. The PhD student will be responsible for presenting and publishing the data obtained during the research activity.
RESEARCH TRAINING
Lectures and seminars: Laboratory techniques of cellular culture, Cytopathology and ultrastructural pathology techniques, Vascular functional evaluation techniques, vascular hemodynamics, Cytopathological laboratory techniques, Endothelium and hemodynamics, Smooth muscle cells, Role of inflammation and metabolism in the atherogenetic process, Current cellular biology, Current events in genetics, Dermatology and Venereology and Dermatology. Each lesson and seminar includes parts which will be carried out directly by the doctoral student until he/she is completely independent in the execution of the planned activities.
INTERNATIONALIZATION
The doctoral programme provides for the search for international candidates through the scientific societies belonging to the Doctorate. Lectures and seminars will be held by foreign teachers and for each Doctorate there is historically a training period abroad.
EXPECTED RESULTS
At the end of the three years, the doctoral programme includes the publication in indexed international journals.