Ready for new master's programme
So far, 7 female and 13 male students are ready for the faculty's new master's programme in Computational biomedicine.
The new academic year kicks off in September 2016. It is also the beginning of a new graduate programme at the Faculty of Science. A novel master's programme in Computational biomedicine provides students with a unique opportunity to acquire expertise that allows for the combined analysis of big data nowadays emerging in modern biology and medicine - from cancer genomes to stem cell differentiation.
The new programme appears to be well accepted. By 1 April (deadline of the first application round), 35 students had applied for admission to the programme, of which 22 met the admission requirements. Some students might still reject the offer, and some more might pop up in the second application round. In total, it looks like 20+ students with eight different nationalities will start the programme after the summer holidays.
Associate Professor Jan Baumbach from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, who is responsible for the new programme, is very much looking forward to getting started. He is pleased with the students' acceptance rate so far and the high number of students from abroad.
“We are excited to educate the first generation of big data bioinformaticians that the world will need to analyse all the massive biomedical data that modern molecular techniques are producing every day. It will be a generation of students that is likely to make the difference in breaking the barrier of cancer treatment and in designing novel kinds of drugs against multi-resistant bacteria.
We face exciting times - and those students will be the new driving force. We are well prepared for this interdisciplinary high tech education programme and look forward to contribute to educating the next generation of European front runners,” says Jan Baumbach.