Postgraduate education at IGP
At IGP there are approximately 100 postgraduate students, with activities in all research programmes. Here you can find some information about our postgraduate education.
The postgraduate programme comprises at least 120 credit points for a licentiate degree, typically two years training, and at least 240 credit points for a doctoral degree, i.e. four years training. The program includes both a number of courses and other theoretical elements, and the actual thesis work. At IGP the thesis work as a rule involves experimental (wet laboratory) work, resulting in publications in scientific journals.
More information:
The Disciplinary Domain's web pages about postgraduate education
About postgraduate education at Study in Sweden
Courses and other theoretical elements
Part of the postgraduate education includes courses and other theoretical elements. At the Medical Faculty this part comprises in total 30 hp for a doctoral degree and 15 hp for a licentiate degree.
The course part comprises 15 hp, out of which 8.5–11.5 hp are compulsory courses. In addition, the Medical Faculty provides several optional research training courses. You can also take courses given by other faculties or universities. As theoretical elements you can include literature courses, conferences, seminar series etc.
Information about courses required for postgraduate education at the Medical Faculty
Information on research training courses

PhD defences, half-time and licentiate seminars
Each year, 15 to 20 PhD students at IGP defend their theses. A similar number present their work at half-time or licentiate seminars.
Half-time and licentiate seminars
- Unfortunately there are no upcoming events at this time
Up-coming thesis defences
The latest theses from IGP
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Vemuri, Kalyani
CD93 in regulation of vascular function and tumour progression
2022
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Almhagen, Erik
Techniques for the increased utilization of dose response variability in proton therapy
2022
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Konjusha, Dardan
Modulation of retinal progenitors: A bird’s-eye view of retinal regeneration and disease
2022
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Daubel, Nina
Lymphatic Vascular Morphogenesis: From Progenitors to Functional Vessels
2022
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Sturk-Andreaggi, Kimberly
Mitochondrial Genome Analysis Using Next Generation Sequencing for Forensic Applications
2022
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Höglund, Julia
The effect of common and rare variants on inflammatory traits and diseases
2022
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Bekkhus, Tove
The role of the lymph node stroma in cancer and aging
2022
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Mainwaring, Oliver
Of Mice and MYC: Modelling Medulloblastoma
2022
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Muthelo, Phathutshedzo M.
Proximity Extension Assay: a universal tool for proteomics in precision medicine
2022
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Sarén, Tina
CAR T cells for Immunotherapy of Cancer
2022