Expected professional and career paths
The career profiles opened or promoted by the PhD Course in Drug Sciences are mainly related to research job positions in the industrial or academic field. The constant dialogue with companies, public bodies and research centres at national and international level, fostered by the continuous collaboration of the members of the Board of Teachers with these stakeholders, has made it possible to organise training paths and tools aimed at matching the professional skills acquired by the PhD students to the needs of the specific economic and social environment related to pharmaceutical and health products field.
The organisation of the doctoral programme is constantly monitored in order to implement all the necessary inputs to better facilitate the insertion of the Doctors in Drug Sciences into the job market through the acquisition of the multidisciplinary knowledge indispensable in the modern pharmaceutical R&D environment.
The socio-economic area of Parma represents a particularly favourable situation for job opportunities in the field of pharmaceutical research, given the presence of numerous companies with a high vocation for pharmaceutical, medical device, food supplements and cosmetic research, some of which are of national or international importance. As far as academic opportunities are concerned, the PhD is now an essential requirement for a career as a researcher or professor, and the focus on the scientific output of PhD candidates meets the needs of this type of career paths.