Education

Curriculum

The PhD program Systems Biology is a 3-4 year PhD program which collaborates with the “external pageBiomedicine Programcall_made" in the teaching of graduate courses.

Participating students can choose from a broad selection of research topics and participate in cutting edge research.

To graduate from the Systems Biology program, students need to fulfill the following requirements:

• All requirements imposed by their host institution (ETH Zurich or University of Zurich) and home departments.
• Completion of the compulsory introduction course: “Systems Approaches in Biology” in the first year, in any case not later than 18 months after starting the thesis.
• At least 6 ECTS in total must be acquired from courses offered by the Systems Biology and/or Biomedicine programs.
• Deposition and defense of a PhD thesis describing the student’s original research work.

Students will receive a graduation certificate from the Systems Biology program.

The final doctoral degree is conferred by either ETH Zurich or the University of Zurich, depending on the academic affiliation of the host laboratory. In order to finish their doctoral studies, students must acquire 12 ECTS. This requirement complies with the regulations of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich.