The University of Pisa is launching a master’s degree in Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence applied to Health, the only one of its kind in Italy, which will enable students to obtain a double degree with the University of Aix-Marseille or the University of Stockholm. The aim is to train professionals in the field of biotechnology applied to Health sciences with soft skills and advanced digital abilities.
“The progress made in recent years in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to health sciences demonstrates a growing demand for training by healthcare professionals and all those involved in biotechnological and biomedical research,” explains Professor Roberto Giovannoni of the University of Pisa, “hence the need to create an interdisciplinary and international master’s degree course with lectures and teaching activities entirely in English. The students enrolled in this master’s degree course will be able to receive mobility grants to study in France and Sweden (partner universities) and to carry out traineeships or thesis internships in prestigious universities, research institutes and companies”.
The UniPI staff of the new course of study, from the left: Roberto Giovannoni, Arianna Tavanti, Daria Bottai, Giorgia Bandini
The master’s degree has been set up as part of the European project “AI and Health”, financed by the European Commission in the DIGITAL EUROPE call, which has as its participants: the University of Pisa, the University of Aix-Marseille, the University of Stockholm, the University of Barcelona, Inria (Institut National De Recherche en Informatique et Automatique) and, as industrial partners, two Pisan companies, Kode Srl and Ingeniars, the latter already a spin-off of the University of Pisa, and Genomeup of Rome. For the University of Pisa, the departments of Biology, Information Engineering, Informatics, Pharmacy, Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, and Law are involved.