Overview

Sustainable Drug Discovery from Ghent University program focuses on drug discovery, the challenging phase in the life cycle of a medicine that precedes first-in-human studies and clinical development.

Key facts

The program is unique in that it will pay notable attention to sustainability, an aspect that currently receives little attention in traditional educational programs in this area. Sustainability boundaries, including environmental, ecological and socio-economic dimensions, add an extra level of complexity to drug discovery, but are of increasing importance to competent authorities and the society at large.

The S-DISCO program, coordinated by Ghent University, is a two-year Master program consisting of logically aligned modules with stepwise build-up knowledge, skills and competences. By applying case-based learning, it will stimulate students to integrate, connect, confront and reconcile multi-perspective ways of looking at sustainable drug discovery.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Comparative Study of Drug Discovery Approaches and Technologies
Sustainable Landscape of Pharmaceutical Discovery
Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
Data Intelligence in Sustainable Drug Discovery
Regulatory Affairs Life Cycle of Medicines

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-22 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-03-31 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2027-05-31 00:00:00 , EEA/EU

Language

English

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Credits

120 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Gent, Belgium

Disciplines

Medicine Sustainable Development View 10 other Masters in Medicine in Belgium

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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General requirements

Candidates must hold a higher education diploma issued by a competent Higher Education authority attesting the completion of a degree equivalent to a first cycle (180 ECTS - or higher) in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Biology (incl. Biochemistry), Bio-(incl. environmental, chemical and food) Engineering, Human or Veterinary Medicine, Biomedical sciences or equivalent (which then requires formal equivalency by an official body in one of the 4 consortium countries, e.g. ENIC-NARIC).

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Tuition Fees

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7079 EUR / year

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EU/EEA Nationals

1181 EUR / year

≈ 1181 EUR / year

Living costs

Gent

Belgium

754 - 1205 EUR / month

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