Master Biology & Health

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Understanding the human body in its healthy and diseased state to evolving new tools for improving longevity and quality of life. Read more

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  • Introduction
  • Admission
  • Program
  • What's next ?
    • Master Biologie-santé parc. Nutrition Health and Mobility
    • Master Biologie-santé parc. Produits, Santé et Innovation
    • Master Biologie-santé
    • Master Biologie-santé parc. Biologie Intégrative et Physiopathologie

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Information

Institution
Duration
  • 2 years
Executive Education Program
  • Diplômante
Places
  • Clermont-Ferrand
  • Aubière
Internship(s)
  • Yes
  • Compulsory
Teaching languages *
  • English
* English
Published on 15 January 2025

Introduction


The Health Biology master is organized in 3 courses:
  •     Integrative Biology and Physiopathologies (BIP)
  •     Nutrition, Health, Mobility (NHM)
  •     Products, Health, Innovation (PSI)
Education systematically combines :
  •     Scientific content (knowledge and practice, internships)
  •     Tools for vocational integration (languages, communication, conducting immersion projects, internships).
 
Faculty of Biological Sciences, Sciences Campus, Cézeaux, Aubière
Faculty of Medicine & Health, Dunant Campus, Clermont-Ferrand 
 
Stakes

To respond to the demands of society in order to better understand health issues related to chronic diseases, the master offers you training:

  • a multidisciplinary approach in fundamental and translational biology
  • Innovation in the development of health-related products
Specifics features
  •     Integrative biology oriented towards health issues
  •     Multidisciplinary
  •     Joint opening to the professions of biomedical research and R&D
  • Gradual professionalization
    •  through training for vocational integration and knowledge of the business world
    •  through work immersion (Project preparation for the internship/Project management, increasing duration: 3 weeks, 2-3 months, 6 months)

Access to TOEIC Certification
Access to a qualifying training validated by the Ministry of Agriculture for the certification "Design and implementation of experimental procedures on animals, rodents and lagomorphs"

Partnership
 
Laboratories
Health services

• CHU de Clermont-Ferrand
• Centre de lutte contre le cancer [Centre Jean Perrin)

Companies

More than 50 companies — including small businesses, SMEs, and pharmaceutical firms — are involved in hosting interns from the master’s program.

 


Contact
Directors of studies

• Mrs Corinne MALPUECH-BRUGERE
corinne.malpuech-brugere@uca.fr

• Mr Laurent MOREL
laurent.morel@uca.fr

 

Places

Clermont-Ferrand, Aubière

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Admission

  • Spécialités / options du bac

    • Life and Earth Sciences Specialty

    Prerequisites training

    Recommended previous degrees and/or studies:

    •     BSc : Life Sciences, Biology & Cell Physiology, Biochemistry, Nutrition, Biomedical Sciences, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Genetics,....
    •     MSc : Nutrition & Health, Genetics, Cancer Biology, Pharmaceuticals, Neuroscience, Physiology,...
     

  • Conditions of applications

    Master 1st year :
    Admission: http://www.uca.fr/formation/candidature-et-inscription/

    Online application on e-candidate https://ecandidat.uca.fr/#!accueilView

    Conditions of access:
    Students may apply for:
    •     holders of a Life Sciences or Health Sciences degree obtained in France or abroad.
    •     holders of a Master 1 year, a Master’s degree or an engineering diploma in the field of Life and Health Sciences obtained in France or abroad, health courses

    Acceptance of students will be conditioned by the evaluation of an application file (cover letter + transcript BAC, L1, L2, L3 and if applicable, M1, M2).
    The acceptance of students from non-EU countries will take place according to the "Campus France" procedure.  

     

Program

Les informations ci-dessous sont données à titre indicatif et peuvent faire l'objet de mises à jour.

Content of the academic programm

EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English is the vehicular language of biology, in France and internationally.
The master’s programme therefore offers training in English as part of foreign language teaching. It consists of:
  •     1 Course Unit (UE) compulsory English each year
  •     1 Course Unit (UE) of "English-language scientific analysis" by English-speaking researchers
  •     Teaching in English in several EU scientific disciplines
  •     The possibility of taking a TOEIC preparation course
  •     Course materials written in English
  •     All of the tutorials are based on the analysis of scientific articles written in English. 

  • Internships and projects occupy an important place in the master’s programme. They are compulsory and their place becomes more and more predominant over the course of the semester. They are the privileged place of professionalization.

    These different situations will allow students to carry out a bibliographical research/case study, to design, implement and conduct a research project or an application project, to return the work in written form (writing a thesis) and oral (presentation in a limited time in French or English).

    These are in M1 (first year of master degree) :
    •     Line of Business Project (for the duration of semester 1)
    •     Introductory research workshop (3 weeks in S2)
    •     Pre-internship and end-of-M1 vocational integration course (8 weeks in S2).

    Freely chosen by the students, takes place mainly abroad in academic laboratories or in industry.  

     

  • To encourage exchanges with foreign universities and/or laboratories, students are trained in English and are in contact with foreign researchers:
    •     Conferences given by foreign researchers
    •     M1 courses open to foreign laboratories. The training supports students in this process: more than 50% of the students from previous promotions have completed their internship outside of France.
    •     M2 internships abroad in partner laboratories and/or companies.

    The term “Biology-Health” is used in several training and exchange partnerships agreed at international level:
    •     Bilateral Erasmus exchange agreements concluded by the University of Clermont-Auvergne

What's next ?

Level of education obtained after completion

Level of education obtained after completion

Level 7: Master's degree

Target skills

Target activities / attested skills

Disciplinary skills and knowledge

> Know and master the concepts, methods and knowledge related to each area of specialization of the training (Cell Biology and Developmental Biology, Genetics, Microbiology/ Inflammation, Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Nutrition and Metabolism, Physiology and Biology of Cancer, Food Science.)
> Master mathematical, statistical and data acquisition and analysis tools.
> General scientific competence
> Solve problems requiring abstraction capabilities,
> Training in new technologies and monitoring
> Be open to an interdisciplinary approach.
> Design and implement an experimental approach
> Presenting and arguing a scientific approach
> Know and respect scientific ethics
> Organizational skills
> Working independently (setting priorities, managing time, self-evaluating, developing a personal training project.
    Use information and communication technologies, share and organize data.)
> The ability to search for information
> Design and implement a project/study  (define objectives and context, prioritize priorities, take into account financial constraints, implement and evaluate the action, propose extensions)
> Know and comply with regulations (health and safety, ethics)
> Communicate: write, prepare appropriate communication materials, speak in public.
> Work as a team, integrate, position yourself, supervise.
> Integrate into a professional environment, identify their skills and communicate them.
> Identify contacts
> Be located in a hierarchical and functional environment.
> Know how to work in an international context and master English (level B2)

Further studies

The master’s degree directly offers the possibility of pursuing a PhD in Health and Earth and Life Sciences, regardless of the field of specialization in France or abroad. The longer-term opportunities are thus in the research professions (researchers, teacher-researchers, research engineers in the public or private sector).

Links & Reorientation
Link between the courses of the master:  the passage from one course to another is free during the year of M1 (1st year) between Semester 1 and Semester 2, then between Semester 2 and Semester 3. From Semester 3, registration in a course becomes final. 

Job opening

Business sector or job

  • Life Sciences Research,
  • Management and engineering studies in life sciences and health
  • Industrial Research and Development in Life Sciences and Health
  • Education

Professional integration

The two BIP and NHM courses train in the following trades:
  • Scientific research biologist,
  • Research Officer,
  • Research Engineer
  • Research and development engineer/engineer,
  • Industrial Research and Development Engineer,
  • Industrial biotechnology engineer/engineer,
  • Research and development project manager.

The PSI studies provides a more specific orientation towards occupations in the agri-food industry and pharmaceutical sectors:
  • Technical framework for industry R&D studies
  • Technical and commercial framework
  • Nutrition Project Manager
  • R&D Project Manager
  • Regulatory Affairs Officer
  • Product Manager
  • Quality Assurance Manager