The Doctoral Program aims to be a national and international reference of righ quality in Health Sciences, stimulating the development of high quality research projects at international level, promoting interdisciplinarity in this vast and important area of study, talking advantage of the existing skills and resources of excellence for its research guidelines: Chronic Diseases and Aging; Population Health and Nutrition; New Cellular and Molecular Therapies.

The cycle of studies leading to the degree of Doctor of Health Sciences enables training based on research and the development of complementary skills in the areas of medicine, biomedicine and related scientific and technological areas, privileging the inter and multidiciplinary to scientific issues with an impact on humam health, having as main foundation the research perfomed at NMS Research, from fundamental biomedical research, to, translational, clinical and epidemiological.