36th cycle: Courses

The following courses are offered by the Board of Teachers, jointly by the Doctorate School in Biologic, Drug and Food Sciences (which includes the Ph.D. Courses in Drug Sciences, in Food Sciences, in Biotechnologies an Biosciences and in Evolutive Biology and Ecology) or by other Organizations at the University of Parma. They are activated every year, unless differently indicated in the Course description leaflet linked below.

Specific courses offered by the Board of Teachers:

Title	ECTS	Teachers
Quality by Design in pharmaceutical research and development	2	Fabio Sonvico (member of the Board) Dimitrios Rekkas (Speaker) Paolo Colombo (Speaker)
Peptidomimetic syntheses and bioconjugation strategies serving the drug sciences	2	Lucia Battistini
Protein therapeutics: production, chemical modification and evaluation of their functional properties	1	Stefano Bettati Stefano Bruno Luca Ronda


Enzymes in Drug Discovery	1	Barbara Campanini
Pharmacokinetic optimization in drug research: physico-chemical and in vitro ADME properties.	1	Federica Vacondio

Inter-disciplinary courses offered by the Board of Teachers:

Title	ECTS	Teachers
Introduction to Scientific Communication	2	Ruggero Bettini Alessio Lodola
Academic research, innovation and technology transfer mindset	1	Elviri Lisa
Preclinical research: from science to legislation	2	Zanotti Ilaria
Practical biostatistics	1	Tognolini Massimiliano
Pubblicare in ambiente scientifico	1	Giada Costa

Inter-disciplinary courses offered by the Doctoral School:

Title

ECTS

Teacher

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Roberto Alfieri

(coordinator)

Introduzione a R (corso base)

Stefano Leonardi

The University of Parma offers the following Inter-disciplinary courses:

Title	ECTS	Description
English for Academic Purposes	4	Saranno tenuti quattro corsi, differenziati per sede, a coprire tutti i dottorati. Il corso verra tenuto interamente in lingua Inglese e presuppone una conoscenza iniziale di livello B2 (anche non certificata). Coloro che nelle prime lezioni mostreranno una padronanza insufficiente della lingua rispetto al livello del corso verranno indirizzati al Corso di Lingua Inglese di livello B2.
Progettualità europea	2-3	Il corso è concepito sulla falsariga di quelli organizzati in passato dal Prof. Stefano Sforza con la collaborazione di Silvia Tavernini ed Elisa Nicosia. Titolo e programma definitivi saranno presentati appena disponibili

Other Ph.D. Courses at the University of Parma accept participation of our Ph.D. students to the courses listed in the document at this link.