Licenciatura em Ciências Biomédicas Laboratoriais

The Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Laboratory Sciences (BLS) confers qualification to the autonomous practice of the professions Technic of Clinical Analysis and Public Health and Technic of Pathology, Cytology and Thanatology, as established in State Gazette, no. 138, July 21st (Order no. 9409/2014). Therefore, the graduate in BLS performs most of his duties in laboratorial contexts, contributing to the prevention, screening, diagnosis and prognosis of the disease, as well as to the selection of appropriate therapies, assessment of the treatment’s efficacy, monitoring and control of therapies/drugs and analysis of water and foods.

The main areas of intervention of this practitioner are Molecular Biology, Cytopathology, Genetics, Clinical Haematology, Histopathology, Immunohematology, Immunology, Microscopy, Microbiology, Immunohistochemistry, Clinical Pathology, Molecular Pathology, Public Health and Thanatology.