About the Department
Our Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, which was established in 2017, is an interdisciplinary field that is constantly developing. It investigates the interactions of the basic properties, structures, and functions of molecules that make up life, their role in development, physiological and pathological phenomena. The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (English) teaches the fields of Bioengineering, Chemical Biology Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, and Computer Engineering, with the vision of combining theory and practice. The department aims to train the most suitable candidates in academic positions and other job opportunities with its multidisciplinary education system. Molecular Biology coincides with the genetic science of inheritance and diversity between organisms. Molecular Biology and Genetics, therefore, tries to explain the issues that form the basis of life by approaching biological processes in terms of molecular structure and functions at the level of structure and function of biological molecules. Research in different disciplines such as cancer, genetic and metabolic diseases, microbial genetics, and biotechnology, plant biotechnology is conducted with the support of international institutions. Department of MBG, which provides a modern infrastructure for the researchers in our laboratory on related topics, plans to develop interdisciplinary studies with the Departments of Physics and Chemistry parallel to the evolution of molecular biology and technology. In order to educate scientists in accordance with this change, the Department of MBG started to prepare double-major or triple-major undergraduate programs, especially in Physics and Chemistry.
Education Opportunities
In the department, there is qualified academic staff providing English-medium instruction. The current monitoring of global academic development and transformations based on the universality of scientific language is much emphasized. The high-level laboratory facilities of Cyprus International University have given the education processes in this department a contemporary and high-level identity. In addition to the academics and laboratory facilities in the fields of Physics and Chemistry, the presence of the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry also carries the education processes of this department to higher levels. In the program, there are courses on biology, bioinformatics, genetics, genomics, population genetics, cell biology, biochemistry, and stem cell research that will direct students to different fields. In addition to the comprehensive general courses in the core program of Cyprus International University, students in this department take general biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, developmental biology, biotechnology, bioinformatics, and laboratory courses. Students are expected to participate in research under the supervision of a faculty member and to increase their knowledge and skills through research projects in their final year.
Career Areas
Our graduates will be the backbone of many companies in the developing biotechnology sector. Stem cell, genetic diagnosis, and vitro fertilization centers and forensic medicine institutions are among the business fields in which our graduates would succeed. A significant number of our graduates will be able to continue their academic studies in many distinguished universities and research institutions with whom we have cooperation agreements. Molecular biologists can be academics in universities’ science, medicine, agriculture, pharmacy, and veterinary faculties. In addition, graduates can work in the state sector at ministries, research institutes, and within the body of state economic enterprises. In the private sector, they can be involved in research and development and quality control units in the pharmaceutical and food industries. In the medical sector, they can be selected to work at hospitals, special analysis laboratories, criminal laboratories, R&D and quality control laboratories of private organizations, and in vitro fertilization units. They can work as sales representatives and technical consultants in import and export divisions of private companies in the field of Medicine and Biology. They will also benefit from a wider business opportunity with the development of new sectors such as stem cells in the future.
Details
Scholarship: 50%
Duration: 4 Years
Deadline: 1st March 2022
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