The Faculty of Medicine, together with the Faculty of Science, offers a brand new Graduate School Medical & Health Sciences. It addresses population- and system-oriented research; bioethics, policy and law in environment and medicine; infection biology and health; patient-oriented research as well as technology and engineering-oriented research. Candidates can choose from nine doctorate subjects: Medicines Development, Biomedical Engineering, Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection Biology, Clinical Research, Biomedical Ethics, Nursing Science, Sport Science, and Insurance Medicine.
The new Graduate School combines the power and expertise of a most impressive line-up of institutions: The Department Sport, Bewegung und Gesundheit, the Department Clinical Reserarch, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Public Health with its Institute of Nursing Science, the University Children’s Hospital Basel, the University Hospital Basel, the European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine, and the Institute for Biomedical Ethics.
The enrollement period for the Fall Semester 2025 is open!
Further details will be posted here as they emerge. In the meantime please get in contact with the graduate school coordinator Anja Matthiä.
- Read the Promotionsordnung (in german).
- See the list of disciplines represented in the Graduate School.
- Consult the Organization Chart.




