Descrizione della formazione

Objectives

• Review and develop knowledge in immunology and microbiology
• Learn about the characteristics of registered vaccines, their mechanism of action and how they were developed
• Understand new trends and technologies in vaccine translational research
• Study the vaccine development process, from discovery to registration and launch
• Understand resistance to vaccine use, and current approaches to increase their acceptance
• Learn how vaccines are made available to populations at risk and how vaccine safety and efficacy is assessed in the field during the post-marketing phase
• Learn how projects are managed and how to work in a collaborative way using information technologies with a minimum of face-to-face contact

This course is granted 60 ECTS credits.

Piano di formazione

IMVACC is constituted of four modules of online content, activities and assessments and a master thesis:

• Module 1: Vaccines & Vaccine sciences
• Module 2: Vaccine development
• Module 3: Vaccines & Public health
• Module 4: Project & time management