Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais
Parasitology Graduate Program
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
PhD
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English, Portuguese, Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Mar 2025
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The doctorate in the Graduate Programme in Parasitology at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in southeast Brazil trains researchers to address parasitology challenges in Brazilian public health. Since the 1970s it's produced applied research—vaccines against American cutaneous leishmaniasis, patented mosquito traps for dengue and yellow fever, pharmaceuticals and immune diagnostic kits—and it integrates molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, immunology, ecology, epidemiology and parasite ultrastructure.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work in academic research, public health agencies, vaccine and pharmaceutical development, diagnostics and biotech industry, vector-control engineering, or science policy and advisory roles; careers include research, epidemiology, diagnostics and environmental health practice.
The doctorate of the Graduate Program in Parasitology at Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais has stood out in the training of qualified human resources to work in different areas of parasitology, in search of solutions to different problems in the Brazilian reality, since parasitology transcends academic interest, constituting the fundamental base for the establishment of public health policies.
Among the Program's quality indicators are studies that apply to public health and revert to the well-being of the community, such as the production of vaccines against American cutaneous leishmaniasis and patent registrations of traps for the control of mosquitoes vectors of dengue and yellow fever, pharmaceutical products, and immune diagnostic kits.
In operation since the 1970s, the course has been updating its theoretical and practical context in order to cover the multidisciplinarity of modern parasitology, which today involves not only traditional approaches but incorporates those of molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, immunology, ecology, epidemiology, and ultrastructure of parasites.
