The education project aims to study more in depth classic and advanced statistical and computational methodologies for the analysis of omics data. The purpose is to impart skills in basic knowledge and delve into advanced topics in the following areas: tout-court omics (genomics, proteomics and metabolomics), personalized medicine, integration and management of data from heterogeneous omics sources.
This type of knowledge is highly relevant to figures working in life sciences and who need to expand their quantitative tools and skills to deal with the new availability of omics data for both research and business purposes.
NB. The deadlines indicated in the Announcement have been changed as follows:
The increasing availability and the capability to acquire omics data from heterogeneous sources makes it necessary to train specialized profiles who can handle this type of data. This demand from the Italian and global labor market has been growing steadily in recent years. This Master aims to train this type of figures combining theoretical notions and practical experiences within the interdisciplinarity of the most current tools of these disciplines.
The qOMICS Master has been positively evaluated by the chairs if the education coordination councils of the bachelor's degree courses in Biological Science and in Biotechnology and the Master’s Degree in Biology and Industrial biotechnology, as well as by the National Association of the Italian Biotechnologist. In particular the ladder said: “The figure trained in this program, will have easy access to the labor market and cover uncovered professional niches. With the expansion of metagenomics, the precision medicine and more in general of the omics methodologies in different industries (starting with pharmaceuticals ones), this type of figures are highly require on the labor market. From the point of view of the recruiter, finding candidates with the appropriate mix skills is always difficult: for this reason, the Master’s contents are crucial and can determine the success or failure of those pursuing master's degrees in the job market.”