Master in Health Biotechnology
- Madrid, Spain
- Barcelona, Spain
Master degree
DURATION
9 months
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Considered one of the best master's degrees in Biotechnology by El Mundo's Best Master's Degrees 2024 ranking, the Master in Health Biotechnology provides its students with solid specialization in the management of different areas in companies in the biosanitary sector.
By following this program, participants will be able to acquire the knowledge and mastery of the tools necessary to achieve successful professional development in a sector in which significant and continuous advances are being achieved in the field of research, by applying them in their areas of activity.
Its practical, multidisciplinary approach aimed at developing innovative business projects in a comprehensive manner also makes it an ideal program for bioentrepreneurs and the administration or general management of biotechnology-based companies.
Specialize in the field of health biotechnology and management of biotechnology companies.
- Connection with the reality of the sector: A teaching staff made up of active professionals, visits to companies organised during the course and professional internships for students who wish to do so, guarantee the connection with the working reality of all students and the direct application of the knowledge they acquire during the course to their workplace.
- Practical and applied methodology: During the course, students will create a Business Plan, supported by a team of 6 tutors who will help students to immediately apply all the knowledge they acquire in the theoretical classes. The creation of this Business Plan will be the guiding thread for the different activities carried out during the Master's degree.
- Institutional recognition: This qualification is endorsed by the Spanish Bioenterprise Association (ASEBIO), Farmaindustria and the Official College of Chemists of Madrid.
Student profile
The Master's Degree in Health Biotechnology is aimed at graduates in health sciences and related fields (Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Pharmacy, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Chemistry and Agricultural Engineering, Chemical and Industrial Engineering), as well as professionals in the health and biotechnology sectors, interested in acquiring solid specialization to continue their development in the industry.
Below are the profiles of the students of this master's degree in recent years:
Technical Sheet
The Master in Health Biotechnology can be taken at our CESIF headquarters in Madrid and Barcelona, according to the provisional schedule detailed below:
Madrid:
- Start: September 2025.
- Completion: June 2026.
- Final Master's Project submission: September 2026.
- Class schedule: Monday to Thursday, 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Barcelona:
- Start: January 2026.
- Completion: November 2026.
- Delivery of Master's Final Project: January 2027.
- Class schedule: Monday to Thursday, 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Master's programme in Health Biotechnology is designed to provide students with the technical and scientific knowledge necessary for the research, development, registration and production of biomedical products.
It also provides the necessary training in all areas of a biotechnology company, the biotechnology division of a pharmaceutical company: market research, marketing, strategic planning, human resources or finance.
In this way, students are able to develop, with the guidance of their tutors, a viable business plan in the biosanitary environment.
The program consists of the following content blocks:
Introduction to the sector and bioentrepreneurship.
- Presentation of the program.
- Overview of the biopharmaceutical industry.
- European and Spanish Bioeconomy Strategy.
- Bioentrepreneurship.
Patents and technology transfer.
- Industrial property systems and patents.
- Patents as sources of information.
- European Patent.
- Assessment and exploitation of research results.
- Technology transfer in research centres.
Biotechnological fundamentals for application in industry.
- Applications of Biotechnology in Industry.
- Vaccines.
- Monoclonal antibodies.
- Proteomic tools.
- Genetically modified organisms as production systems.
- The cell as a factory in drug production.
- Advanced therapies (cell therapy, gene therapy).
- Bioinformatics.
- Genomic tools.
- Biosensors.
- Gene expression modulation tools (epigenetics).
- RNA-based therapies.
- Biomaterials.
- Digital health.
- Use of enzymes in biotechnological processes.
- Nanomedicine.
- Biosimilars.
R&D and regulatory
- Master's tutoring.
- Drug discovery I: identification and validation of therapeutic targets.
- Drug discovery II: hit-to-lead and lead optimization.
- Preclinical development.
- Clinical development (phases I, II and III).
- Observational studies and pharmacovigilance.
- Development of medical devices.
- Regulatory strategy for drug development.
- Regulatory strategy for the development of medical devices.
Production and quality assurance and legal aspects.
- Drug production systems.
- Medical technology production systems.
- Orientation towards quality and operational excellence.
- Introduction to good manufacturing standards.
- Sterile products: facilities, manufacturing and sterilization.
- Regulatory aspects of the manufacture of biotechnological medicines.
- Legal aspects sessions.
Marketing and Market Access.
- Introduction to Marketing. Operational and strategic marketing.
- Market Intelligence.
- Marketing plan.
- Healthcare environment and market trends.
- Multichannel marketing.
- Early stage marketing for biotech and medical device.
- Market Access and healthcare systems context.
- Market Access I: objectives and governance.
- Market Access II: strategy and tactics.
- HEOR and Pharmacoeconomics.
- Market Access III: Strategy Implementation: KAMs.
Sales and business development.
- Commercial management in the biopharmaceutical industry.
- forecasting.
- Sales force effectiveness and ROI.
- Business development in the biopharmaceutical industry.
Finance.
- Master's tutoring.
- Financial statements.
- Operational finance.
- Venture capital.
- Negotiation techniques.
- Public funding.
- Private financing: crowdfunding.
- Private financing: the IPO.
TFM
- TFM Explanation.
- Individual business ideas.
- Session 1: Unmet medical need.
- Session 2: Business model.
- Session 3: Value proposition. The product. TPP.
- Session 4: Product development plan.
- Session 5: Market analysis and segmentation.
- Session 6: Financial plan.
- Session 7: Final presentation.
- Session 8: Formal aspects of the presentation.
- Final session with external tribunal.
- TFM correction.
Personal development and profile 3.0.
- Professional careers (Linkedin and personal branding)
- Effective presentations and communication.
- Individual development plan.
- Teamwork, cooperation and time management.
Conferences.
- Positions in the biopharmaceutical industry
- Biomedical Research Framework.
- Business Communication
- White biotechnology.
- Green biotechnology.
- Sustainability and impact.
- Digital transformation.
- Lean Management.
- Project management in R&D.
- Strategic direction and strategic plan.
- Artificial intelligence in drug discovery.
- How to start a business in the biotech world.
Experts in this sector associate biotechnology and the future in their definition, which is supported by the different particularities of this field that motivate changes in direction in the strategic plans of companies in the sector. It is defined by:
- The constant innovations that companies and institutions in the biotechnology sector are managing to apply to their field of action.
- The amount of resources invested in research and development of biotechnological products applicable to human health.
- The successes achieved in various therapeutic areas with the first biotechnological treatments used.
This Master's degree has been designed to meet the needs of startups, established biotechnology companies and biotechnology divisions of large pharmaceutical companies.
The programme is aimed at training professionals with the most complete profile in the sector, specialising in each of the functional areas of these companies.
Below are some of the sectors of activity and functional areas in which alumni of this program are currently working: