Stem Cell Medicine Ruhr University Bochum

Overview

Are you wanting to be part of one of the first German universities to to offer a international masters degree in Stem Cell Medicine? Your Master will prepare you for a career in one of the most fascinating, modern and promising fields of medicine.

Stem cell research is central to our understanding of how human life develops as well as how it leads us to the discovery of novel drugs using stem-cell based disease models and cellular therapies in regenerative medicine. Cellular reprogramming of somatic cells to induced, pluripotent stem (iPS) cells as well as direct cell transdifferentiations using combinations of transcription factors are the latest developments in these directions.  We predict that in the near future, a strong demand of educated biochemists with backgrounds in stem cell and regenerative medicine will find their places in basic research, medical research institutions, medicinal practices and in the pharmaceutical industry.

This demands in turn an advanced interdisciplinary educational approach starting in the field of chemistry of small molecules, bioinformatics of nucleic acids and protein networks, biochemistry of transcription factors, genetics and epigenetics, systems biology as well as nanotechnology and material sciences combined with molecular developmental and medicine training.

The Stem Cell Medicine Master program offered by Ruhr University Bochum invites you to chart the course for the medicine of the future, in Stem Cell, regenerative medicine.

Career

The Stem Cell Medicine master’s program is research-oriented. It will prepare you as a graduate for subsequent doctoral studies or for research-related professional activities. The program is designed to enable you to apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired to new contexts and to quickly acquire the new or more in-depth knowledge required for this purpose. As a graduate you are able to contribute to the scientific and technical development in the field of stem cell research independently and to meet the changing requirements of profession and society also in an international context.

As a Stem Cell Medicine Graduate you will know the mechanisms of:

• action of stem-cell treatments for leukaemia and lymphoma,
• application stem-cell therapy e.g. for the management of acute graft-vs-host disease.

As a Stem Cell Medicine Graduate you will perform research to:

• prevent conditions such as diabetes and heart diseases,
• treat strokes, traumatic brain injuries and neurodegenerative diseases,
• to build and replace organs.