Graduate education at the IGC

The IGC has a long-standing tradition in international graduate training, and currently hosts three independent graduate programmes:

• the in-house PhD Programme in multidisciplinary life sciences (PGD);
• the PhD Programme in Computational Biology (PDBC);
• the Gulbenkian/Champalimaud PhD Programme in Neuroscience (PG/CN);

Each year, the three PhD programmes provide excellence training to about 32 new Portuguese and foreign students. The programmes share a common initial teaching component, after which students choose a research group in which to develop their training, either in Portugal or abroad.

The IGC is also heavily committed to the organisation of international workshops, courses and various types of meetings, including the Gulbenkian Biology Courses (our international advanced-course programme), and has a well-established visitors’ programme in which graduate students are expected to actively participate.