TIGEM provides a favourable and productive setting for the training and development of scientific careers for both students and post-doctoral fellows.
Graduate students join TIGEM by way of three different programmes: two international programmes (Open University-OU, European School of Molecular Medicine-SEMM of the Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II), and one national programme (Seconda Università degli studi di Napoli-SUN). The goal of the graduate programmes is to prepare doctoral students for research careers in human genetics (OU), functional genomics and molecular medicine (SEMM), or medical genetics (SUN).

All students are expected to:

1) attend thematic courses during the first years of their study;
2) participate in TIGEM Journal Clubs and seminars throughout the research period;
3) perform a full-time research activity in one of TIGEM’s research groups;
4) meet and discuss their research periodically with an ad hoc on-site committee;
5) write their thesis proposal after the first twelve-eighteen months of their study, and
6) complete the PhD programme within three-four years.

There are many PhD students at TIGEM enrolled under the three aforementioned programmes and several have successfully completed their graduate studies since the beginning of the programmes.

The international programmes, in particular, are TIGEM’s pride since they enhance the dimension of the Institute abroad, with the recruitment of talented and promising students also from outside Italy and promote the interaction and collaboration of TIGEM researchers and students with renowned foreign laboratories.