Studies

Official Masters European Higher Education Area

Subject Type: OU = Obligatory | OP = Optional

Fundamental Module I

Subject	Credits	Type
Risk Technology	5	OU
Control and Instrumentation	5	OU

Fundamental Module II

Subject	Credits	Type
Advanced Analytical Chemistry *	5	OP
Advanced Organic Chemistry	5	OP
Structural Determination	5	OU

Research Management Module

Subject	Credits	Type
Project Management	4	OU
Experimental Design	3	OU
Innovation, Information, and Technology Management	3	OP
Quality Management	3	OP

Specific Module

BLOCK 1	Credits
Surface Engineering *	5
Advanced Control	5
Biotechnology	5
Industrial Process Chemistry	5
Scale Change *	5
Formation of Industrial Chemical Products	5
Environmental Chemistry	5

BLOCK 2	Credits
Biochemistry Techniques and Instrumentation *	5
Protein Enzymology and Chemistry	5
Protein Engineering *	5
Glycobiology *	5
Enzymes in Organic Synthesis *	5
Microbiology	5
Molecular Principles of Biomaterials	5

BLOCK 3	Credits
Foodstuffs Analysis	5
Electrophoretic Techniques *	5
Advanced Techniques of Mass Spectrophotometry *	5
Advanced Electrochemistry *	5
Scanning Electron Microscope *	5
Thermal and Calorimetric Analysis	5
Persistent Organic Contaminants	5

BLOCK 4	Créditos
Natural Products: Secondary Metabolism	5
Pharmaceutical Chemistry *	5
Process Chemistry	5
Computational Chemistry	5
Polymer Chemistry *	5
High Resolution NMR Techniques in Organic Chemistry *	5
Photochemistry	5

* All the optional subjects marked with a * are offered in function of the Academic Programming.

Lines of research underway for the writing of Master's theses and doctoral theses are:

Biochemistry laboratory
Protein engineering and enzymology of "Carbohydrate Active Enzymes" (glycosidases, glycosyltranferases, deacetylases, transglicosidasas).
Therapeutic targets in infectious diseases.
Amyloidogenic proteins in neurodegenerative diseases.
Biocatalysis and biotransformations: enzyme redesign, directed evolution of enzymes, and metabolic engineering.
Enzymatic synthesis of functional oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates for food and biomedical applications.

Biomaterials Laboratory
Stimuli sensitive polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery.
Design of biomimetic surfaces with both chemical and mechanical signaling. Smart surfaces.
Design and rapid manufacturing fabrication of scaffolds for bone and cartilage regeneration.

Microbiology Laboratory
Mycotoxins and fungal producers.
Microbiological aspects of the photodynamic therapy.
Food and environmental safety.
Microbial functional genomics in the search of therapeutic targets.

Bioprocess Laboratory
Recombinant protein and metabolite expression, bioprocess and bioreactors optimization.
Biotechnological production of polyinsatured fatty acids.
Industrial byproducts as a source for highly valuable biotechnological products. Bioremediation.
Downstream processing and bioproducts isolation.
Computer simulation of bioprocess.

Tissue Engineering Laboratory
Design and synthesis of nanometric biomaterials analog to extracellular matrices.
Development of instructive tri-dimensional environments for functional differentiation of stem cells.
Environmental reprogramming of adult cells to develop regenerative medicine platforms.
Impact of the haemodynamic environment in vascular cells functionality.
Controlled drug delivery in vascular devices.