Dedicated to lifelong learning, the National Center PharmaTech Academy aims to train highly qualified professionals to operate within all phases of RNA-based drug development. Operated by the University of Naples Federico II, PharmaTech Academy seeks to cultivate the soft and hard skills needed to compete in today’s global pharmaceutical sector.
Understanding the importance of teamwork, problem-solving, and critical thinking provides graduates with the interpersonal soft skills needed to manage the changes transforming Europe’s economy successfully. By expanding measurable hard skills, graduates participate across each step of the highly technical research behind the development of RNA-based medicines.
Learning how to address concrete challenges, academic and business professionals join the classroom to share practical and technical lessons through lectures and workshops. Staying in synch with the fast comprehensive changes in science and technology, students engage in extended reality witnessed through the lens of revolutionary augmented, virtual, and mixed artificially intelligent learning tools. Confident that Learning by Doing is vital to their educational curriculum, students complete the program with an internship at a private company under the National Center.
The fast and comprehensive changes in science and technology are transforming economies across the world by generating new markets and players. As a means to transform and support the economic development of Southern Italy, the National Center strategically places PharmaTech Academy in the competent hands of the University of Naples Federico II. The Academy aims to fulfill its role of stimulating research, development, and innovation in novel and complex technologies that advance Key Enabling Technologies (KETs), which includes access to infrastructures that allow students to quickly develop and test innovations.