Learning objectives

The Master's Degree is designed as an innovative pathway for graduates with a Master's degree in Chemical Sciences.

The specific educational objectives of the program are, in fact, a detailed interpretation of the general objectives outlined for the LM-54 degree class "Master's Degrees in Chemical Sciences."

The Master's Degree aims to train graduates who are capable of:

   Applying theoretical and experimental knowledge in chemical sciences to the design, characterization, and formulation of ingredients and products to be used in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and cosmetic fields;
   Designing and applying extraction, fermentation, biotechnological, separation, and synthetic techniques for the identification, characterization, and industrial scale-up of molecular species with defined biological properties;
   Using and interpreting the results of advanced chemical-analytical techniques, particularly with regard to untargeted, quantitative techniques at the organism level;
   Understanding and interpreting regulatory, legal, and commercial provisions related to the design, formulation, production, and marketing of health products in the context of the innovation process.

To this end, the qualifying objectives of the program consist of:

   Understanding and being able to modify the molecular properties that regulate the health functionality of products for human and animal health;
   Knowing and being able to apply the main techniques of chemical synthesis, extraction, fermentation, and separation to obtain chemical species with specific and expected biological and functional properties;
   Understanding and being able to modify the molecular properties that regulate absorption, non-absorption, metabolism, and potential toxicity of functionally active products;
   Understanding and being able to modify the formulation pathways of functionally active products to optimize their availability and health effects;
   Understanding and being able to apply techniques for developing activity-structure relationships, querying databases, and high-throughput screening;
   Understanding national and international regulatory issues related to medical devices, dietary supplements, and functional cosmetic products, and being able to integrate these into the product development phase;
   Being able to use the English language in relation to disciplinary lexicons.