Undergraduate Biochemistry

The students of the 1st Cycle in Biochemistry delivered at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (ULHT) will benefit from a competent and experienced academic staff, from modern and functional infrastructures, in particular for laboratory training. They also take advantage of the possibility to be initiated to scientific research during the 1º Cycle within a Curricular Unit of Project. This new Biochemistry course embraces the challenge of forming a new generation of Biochemists who will be part of public institutions and companies. Students will also be stimulated during the course to become themselves entrepreneurs within their area of expertise. To reach this goal the Biochemistry course in ULHT is betting on a well developed laboratory training as well as on the immediate enrollment of students in research activities. The collaboration with a successful Portuguese company in the area of Biochemistry will decisively contribute to develop the real opportunities that exist in self-entrepreneurship in this area of knowledge.

Podem candidatar-se a este ciclo de estudos os que apresentem candidatura através do concurso institucional de acesso e tenham aprovação a uma das seguintes provas:



Candidates may also apply via the regimes of institution/programme transfer or via Special Application, in accordance with the legal regulations in force (holders of higher education degree, holders of a Technological Specialization Course, holders of Professional Higher Technician Course or Over 23 years of Age). Candidates who meet the requirements defined in the International Student Statute can also apply.

The 1st Cycle in Biochemistry is training students for the most diversified careers: teaching and/or research in public or private institutions of the Portuguese or foreign Higher Education system, researchers or technicians in the pharmaceutical, biomedical or biotechnological industries (the latter including the vast agribusiness area), or in service companies (clinical analyses, biotechnology, biomedicine), development or participation with partners to the development of their own companies (¿startup¿) thanks to the formation in self-entrepreneurship. The competences that were developed during the study cycle (team work, project management, scientific writing, data analysis,...) will also permit the students to run for employment outside Biochemistry wherever these competences will be appreciated.

The BSc degree allows access to post-graduate studies, namely 2nd cycles (Master's degrees), and then PhDs.

The 1st Cycle in Biochemistry of Universidade Lusófona has access to many classrooms and auditoriums. Teaching laboratories include rooms dedicated to experimental work in Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Microscopy, Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Microbiology, Chemistry, as well as fully equipped informatics rooms. The study cycle also has access to a research laboratory where the academic staff may develop their projects and direct trainees. The laboratories possess all the necessary equipment to teach classes in the various disciplines: computers, precision scales, spectrophotometers, microscopes, thermostatic baths, vacuum pumps, refrigerated centrifuges, fermentation reactors, incubators, thermal cyclers for PCR, epifluorescence microscope, electrophoresis kits, various electrodes, stoves, laminar flow benches, FPLC, aquariums and terrariums, as well as every piece of bench equipment and consumables.

The research in Biochemistry will be added to the activities already carried out in Biology at the research laboratory. This will allow the students of the Department of Life Sciences to participate in data collection, data analysis, and adequate presentation of results both to the scientific community and to the general audience. The activities that are carried out are focused on research projects led by academic staff and on research interests of both teachers and students.