The aim of the Research Doctorate iis to provide theoretical and practical knowledge of innovative technologies and their application through a translational approach, bringing together the various specialties involved in the study of sense organ diseases including applied medical and surgical sciences and biomedical research. The approach to the study of ophthalmic and otorhinolaryngological diseases (inflammatory, dystrophic / degenerative, metabolic and neoplastic) has substantially changed in the recent years due to the availability of novel diagnostic modalities, medical therapies and surgical techniques. Specifically, in the field of eye diseases, topical recombinant proteins treatment, ex vivo limbal stem cells translantation, novel biomaterials - biomimetics combined with increasingly sophisticated and minimally invasive surgical to treat cataract, glaucoma and corneal diseases, have been recently introduced in clinical practice. In the field of otorhinolaryngology, the last few years have seen several innovations, including the use of robotic technology, personalised medicine and immunotherapy in head and neck cancer, the development of hearing aids and technologically advanced and miniaturised cochlear implants, and the use of monoclonal therapies in rhinosinusal diseases.
Given the multidisciplinary nature of this approach, it is therefore necessary to have a course able not only to train doctoral students on the use of the various methodologies, but also to provide them with a unifying vision of the etiopathogenetic and therapeutic mechanisms involved in the development of sense organ diseases through the application of innovative technologies.
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