The NANOMED Master is a 23 month-long programme (120 ECTS) that is taught exclusively in English with a strong research component, including traineeships in the first and second years.

It offers high quality education in the emerging field of Nanomedicine with a strong emphasis on multidisciplinarity. Designing nanomedicines for drug delivery requires the combination of knowledge from various fields such as Pharmacy, Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics or Engineering, which is why our Master programme values students from different backgrounds. The NANOMED Master provides both theoretical and practical knowledge for 3 semesters (Semesters 1, 2 and 3, 30 ECTS each) combined with a final internship (Semester 4, 30 ECTS).

Semester 1  : Courses at Université Paris Cité

• Introduction to pharmaceutical formulation: from classical forms to nanoparticles.

Training will take place in Paris and will concern the Basis of Pharmaceutical Technology, i.e. Biopharmacy aspects, formulation, production as well as the related controls. This first step provides the essential knowledge necessary to work in Pharmaceutical domains and to introduce innovative drug delivery systems as used in Nanomedicine

An introductory biology or chemistry unit will be offered to non-pharmacy students with a background in chemistry or biology. Considering that some specific knowledge in both domains is required to efficiently design and develop pharmaceutical forms and in particular Nanomedicines, basic courses on biology will be provided to Chemists and chemistry courses to Biologists.

Semester 2 : Courses at the University of Patras

• Basic Nanomedicine and Biomolecules

The Basic Nanomedicine module covers the design of nanovectors for various administration routes as well as their subsequent characterization and evaluation (theoretical and practical courses). The first three months are dedicated to taught classes and  the semester is completed by a two-month long traineeship carried out at one of the research teams within the Consortium network.

A one week long Summer School  is organized at the end of semester 2 (July) in one of the four partner universities of the NANOMED Consortium to give students the opportunity to benefit from high quality conferences of an Invited Professor. During the Summer School students will also be in charge of organizing and participating in a two-days-long Workshop. This Workshop will give NANOMED students from first and second year as well as local PhD students the opportunity to present their research projects (oral and poster communications will be organized).

Semester 3 : Courses at Université d’Angers OR University of Pavia

Semester 3  will be dedicated to the Advanced Nanomedicine part of the curriculum. Students choose one of two specialization pathways and move to either the Université d’Angers, France or the University of Pavia, Italy depending on their route.

• Strategy of Nanomedicine Development for Non Clinical Application

The Université d’Angers offers this specialization pathway  focused on Non Clinical applications of Nanomedicine.

• Production and concerning tools to develop Nanomedicine

This curriculum, focusing on the tools to develop Nanomedicine, is offered by the University of Pavia

Semester 4 : Traineeship at Partner University OR outside the Consortium

During the final internship period (6 months from January to June), students will apply this new knowledge to the successful achievement of research and development projects on Nanomedicine in either an academic team or selected private companies.

During the two-day-long workshop held in July, 2^nd year students will defend their Master’s thesis in front of an international jury composed of external experts and NANOMED Professors.