The Faculty of Medicine, together with the Faculty of Science, offers the Graduate School Medical & Health Sciences (GSMHS) since Aug 2025. 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 GSMHS 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.

More information about enrolment at the Student Administration Office

Further details will be posted here as they emerge. 

Contact: Graduate School Coordinator Anja Matthiä

Related documents are the Promotionsordnung (in German) and Wegleitung (in German).

Find here the list of disciplines represented in the interfaculty regulation and the GSMHS.

Sitzungstermine / PhD board meetings 2026

• Mon, 2. Feb
• Mon, 2. Mär
• Mon, 20. Apr
• Mon, 18. Mai
• Mon, 29. Jun
• Mon, 17. Aug
• Mon, 14. Sep
• Mon, 12. Okt  
• Mon, 30. Nov

Mitglieder Medizinische Fakultät / Members Faculty of Medicine

• Prof. Dr. Georg Rauter (Co-lead)
• Prof. Dr. med. Julia Bohlius
• Prof. Dr. Markus Gerber
• Prof. Dr. med. Viola Heinzelmann
• Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jens Kuhle
• Prof. Dr. rer. sec. Michael Simon

Mitglieder Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Members Faculty of Science

• Prof. Dr. Timm Maier (Co-lead)
• Prof. Dr. Carsten Gründemann
• Prof. Dr. Helmut Harbrecht
• Prof. Dr. Pascal Mäser
• Prof. Dr. Jean Pieters
• Prof. Dr. Martin Röösli