Molecular and Technical Medicine

The foundation courses comprise the first and second semester. We teach you the basics in lectures and through practical. Chemistry, physics, maths and biological subjects will equip you for the rest of your studies. Of course, medical subjects such as anatomy and physiology are also on your timetable. Your English courses are specially adapted to the requirements of the department.

In the third to seventh semesters, we introduce you to increasingly complex interrelationships. For example, you'll learn how biochemical or molecular biological processes cause diseases – but also how therapeutics counteract them. The analysis of biological data is particularly important here. It also involves areas such as stem cell biology, immunology and imaging. You can specialise further through your student research project and several electives.

You will complete your internship semester and your thesis in a company, a research institute or a hospital. There you will apply your knowledge in practice, take on responsibility and learn about real issues. Our partnerships with companies and research institutes will help you find the right place. At the end of the course, you will carry out independent scientific work in your thesis as a key qualification for your career.

Minas Salib is currently a PhD/DPhil student in Neurosciences at the University of Oxford. He was awarded an MRC Research Scholarship and a Senior Hulme Scholarship from Brasenose College, University of Oxford for his achievements during his PhD. In addition to his research, he is co-founder of a non-profit organization (Science Innovation Union) and works as a health care analyst for various consulting agencies in the health care sector. After his bachelor's degree in MTZ at HFU, he completed a master's degree in "Interdisciplinary Neuroscience" at Goethe University Frankfurt. This was followed by a Master's thesis at the University of Oxford. He is a PhD/DPhil student in the research group of Prof. Somogyi at the University of Oxford with the topic: "Rerelationship of medial septal neurons in influencing behavior dependent network oscillation by using in-vivo electrophysiological recordings and juxtacellular labeling of single neurons in the medial septum and the local field potential in the hippocampal formation".

MTZ studies until August 2015, during which she spent an internship semester at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Tübingen, with the topic "Establishment of a drug assay for Schistosomula". Bachelor thesis in Hematology/Oncology at the University Hospital Freiburg, with the topic: "Optimization and validation of an NGS-based detection and quantification of tumor-specific mutations in circulating tumor DNA in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor." Between Bachelor's and Master's degree: Internship at the Cancer Society Research Center in Auckland, New Zealand. Master's degree in Human and Molecular Biology at Saarland University. Master's thesis in Hematology/Oncology at the University Medicine Greifswald, with the topic: "BCL11B-specific protein knockdown by ubiquitin-mediated degradation." Since 2018 PhD student in hematology/oncology at the University Medicine Greifswald