PhD Programme in Pharmacy

The Doctor of Pharmacy degree confers the doctoral degree in the following specialties:

• Biopharmacy and Pharmacokinetics;
• Cellular and Molecular Biology;
• Biochemistry;
• Pharmaceutical Biotechnology;
• Bromatology;
• Pharmacoepidemiology;
• Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology;
• Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy;
• Microbiology;
• Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Chemistry;
• Social Pharmacy;
• Pharmaceutical Technology;
• Toxicology.

The first year corresponds to the “Doctoral Course” with 60 ECTS and consists of the following curricular components:

• PhD Seminar I: Includes 2 advanced courses, totalling 12 ECTS, and 2 laboratory rotations, totalling 12 ECTS;
• Research Methodology Seminar I: includes the start of the research project, for a total of 6 ECTS;
• PhD Seminar II: includes 2 advanced courses, totalling 12 ECTS, and 2 laboratory rotations, totalling 12 ECTS;
• Research Methodology Seminar II: includes a conference on the topic of the thesis, for a total of 2 ECTS, and a presentation and discussion of the thesis plan, for a total of 4 ECTS.

The remaining semesters of the PhD program correspond to the research work leading to the preparation of an original PhD thesis.

Admission Requirements

The applicants should be:

• Holders of a master’s degree or legal equivalent, with a minimum classification of Good (or 14 points), in areas related to Pharmaceutical Sciences.
• Holders of a bachelor’s degree or legal equivalent, with a particularly relevant academic or scientific curriculum that is recognized as attesting the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies by the Scientific Council.
• Exceptionally, the holders of an academic, scientific, or professional curriculum that is recognized as attesting the capacity to carry out this Cycle of Studies by the Scientific Council.

The recognition referred to in paragraphs b) and c) is granted by a team by two PhD professors or researchers, considered experts in the scientific field of study and appointed by the coordinator of the corresponding study cycle.

Academic year 2024/2025

Number of vacancies

• National and European Union Member-States students: 20
• International students: 5

1st Call

• Application period – February 1st to April 30th, 2024
• Application results – May 15th, 2024
• Registration and enrollment – May 20th-23rd, 2024
• Announcement of remaining vacancies for the 2nd phase: by June 1st, 2024.

2nd Call

• Application period – June 1st to September 16th, 2024
• Application results – September 23rd, 2024
• Registration and enrollment – September 25th-27th, 2024
• Announcement of remaining vacancies for the 3rd phase: by November 1st, 2024.

3nd Call

• Application period – October 1st, 2024 to January 15th, 2025
• Application results – January 22nd, 2025
• Registration and enrollment – January 29th-31st, 2025

Deadline for submitting complaints – up to 5 days after the announcement of the results

Start of the doctoral course:

• October 2024 – for applicants admitted in the 1st semester of the 2024/2025 academic year;
• February 2025 – for applicants admitted in the 2nd semester of the 2024/2025 academic year.

What to do:

1. read Public Notice 2024/2025

2. Create a user account on the  FenixEdu Portal:

• If you have never been a student at FFULisboa you must necessarily pre-register on the FenixEdu Platform.
• If you are a former FFULisboa student and have already had a Campus/Edu student account, you must access the FenixEdu Platform and log in with your account details.
• If you have lost access to your account, you can recover your password in the ULisboa user area.
• If you are a former FFULisboa student and have never had a Campus/Edu account, you should send an email to doutoramentos@ff.ulisboa.pt stating your full name and ID number.

3. Once you have created your access credentials, you must access the FenixEdu Platform.

4. After accessing the Fénix Platform, in the Applicant tab, choose the Type of Application: Doctorate in Pharmacy National and European Union Citizens or Doctorate in Pharmacy International Students and fill in the required fields;

5. The application is complete when you click the Submit button.

Applications are only considered when supported by the following documents:

1. Document proving possession of a bachelor’s or master’s degree, indicating the final grade;
2. Curriculum vitae duly updated, including documents proving the publications/activities mentioned in the CV.
3. Motivation letter setting out the reasons for choosing the course;
4. Presentation of a research proposal indicating the specialty in which you intend to carry out your doctorate, stating the object of study, the research objectives and methodological elements, duly framed in reference bibliography;
5. Copy of the identification Card, Citizen Card, or Passport, for personal data validation, and 1 colour Photo.
6. International Student Declaration, in case of international students.
7. Other elements considered relevant by the candidate for the purposes of assessing the application.

Documents proving applicants’ qualifications must be issued by the competent authority in the country where the qualifications were obtained and, when issued by institutions in non-EU countries, they must be legalized by a Portuguese consular agent or by the Hague Apostille, these legalizations being carried out in the country of origin of the documents. Whenever they are not issued in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish, they must be translated into one of these languages.

All documents must be attached, in PDF format, on the application platform. If any of the mandatory documents are divided into several files, they must be compiled into a single ZIP or RAR file.

Applications that are not accompanied by all the requested documents will be rejected outright.

Enrolment and registration take place within the time limits established in the FFULisboa Academic Deadlines Map.

Start of the doctoral course:

• October 2024 – for applicants admitted in the 1st semester of the 2024/2025 academic year;
• February 2025 – for applicants admitted in the 2nd semester of the 2024/2025 academic year.

• Application fee: 75,00 €*
• Registration fee: 25,00 €
• Tuition fee: 2750 € /ano.

The application fee is €75 (seventy-five euros), which will not be refunded if the applicant is excluded or not selected.

The tuition fee is annual and, for the 2024/2025 academic year, will be set by the General Council of the Universidade de Lisboa at €2,750.00 (two thousand seven hundred and fifty euros). Payment deadlines and installments will be indicated at the beginning of the academic year.

Students must pay the first installment of tuition fees, school insurance and the enrollment or registration fee at the time of enrolment.

For further information, please check the Pharmacy Faculty website.

The call for doctoral research grants from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) is held annually. It is up to the applicants, together with their supervisors, to apply to this institution.

After acceptance and respective enrolment in FFUL’s Doctoral Program in Pharmacy, the Academic Services will issue any document required for the granting of the same.

• Regulamento de Estudos de Pós-Graduação da ULisboa
• Regulamento Geral do Ciclo de Estudos conducente ao Grau de Doutor da FFUL

Academic Office
e-mail: doutoramentos@ff.ulisboa.pt