Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme

Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme (HBS-DP) offers field specific doctoral training to its doctoral researchers by organizing courses and other activities and events.
Man with a doctoral hat.

Degree programmes

Doctoral researchers from the following degree programmes belong to the Doctoral Programme for Health and Biosciences:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
  • Health Sciences
  • Dentistry
  • (Biology)

Check the study requirements in your own doctoral degree programme!

HBS-DP activities

HBS-DP organizes field-specific activities for doctoral researchers. In addition, HBS-DP funds doctoral researcher positions through University of Oulu Graduate School.

You can explore the doctoral training offered by the University of Oulu using the education search.

If the field-specific activity is not found from Peppi, you can register credits to Peppi as personal study units.

Research environment

Biocenter Oulu (established in 1986) supports high-quality research and coordinates multidisciplinary research activities and doctoral training on the University´s strategic research theme Human health and Wellbeing. It is one of the four Multidisciplinary centers at the University of Oulu and it promotes interdisciplinary networking of research groups as well as co-operation with national and international partners.

Medical Research Center Oulu (MRC Oulu) is a strategic research organisation of the Wellbeing services county of North Ostrobothnia and the University of Oulu. MRC Oulu offers a multidisciplinary research environment for clinical, translational and health care socioeconomic research. Currently MRC Oulu comprises around 80 research groups from the University of Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, and Northern Finland collaborative area.

Contact information

Doctoral programme coordinator

  • Emmi Alakärppä, emmi.alakarppa(at)oulu.fi
  • Contact for questions related to field-specific courses and events

Graduate school coordinator

  • Heli Ruotsalainen, uniogs(at)oulu.fi
  • Contact for general questions related to doctoral training

HBS-DP email list