Charles University Second Faculty of Medicine

PhD in Immunology

Immunology is a dynamically evolving discipline integrating the knowledge of molecular and cell biology, physiology, histology, and functional morphology (in the context of evolution and ontogenesis) relevant to the immune system, a self-defense unit composed of functionally interacting molecules, cells, and tissues involved in immune responses. Immunology outputs show a major impact in a multitude of biomedical fields today. Topics such as transplantation, allergy, immune deficiency, autoimmunity, immunosuppression, immunotherapy, or anti-tumor immunity are typical areas of interest to immunologists. Immunology covers all levels of biological knowledge from molecules (cytokines, immunoglobulins, receptors, signaling molecules), cells (a wide array of immunocompetent cells), whole organisms (having transgenic animal models in use and interaction with the immune system is being investigated), and communities (evolution of immune mechanisms, e.g. frequencies of different alleles regulating the immune response within a population). Clinical immunology is an important emancipated immunology specialization, for which the human immune system is the object of studies, and understanding the mechanism of its action leads to the development of potential therapeutic applications.

通常，四年制免疫学研究生学习将通过更专业的讲座和导师的密集科学教育来深化硕士教育。课程和讲座由查尔斯大学科学学院和医学院的专家以及捷克共和国科学院（主要是 IMG 和 IM）的专家提供。学生主要在这些机构撰写博士论文，但也在医院、临床实验室或私人公司（生物技术开发中心）撰写。学生不断在会议上报告他们的博士论文进展，例如海报或口头报告。对于他们的项目，学生可以通过各种资助申请获得支持。他们了解外国实验室的国际科学合作。与博士论文制定相关的科学活动的成果是国际会议上的大量海报和演示文稿以及国际影响期刊上的出版物。免疫学项目担保人以及理学院免疫学家的主要活动是指导学生项目、鼓励他们独立进行实验工作以及对主要文献进行批判性评估。为了实现这一点，我们开设了“免疫学进展”（英语）课程。

The program is carried out without any specialization.