The degree programme in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques forms healthcare professionals with in-depth knowledge of laboratory sciences and techniques, with duties attributed by decree of the Ministry of Health no. 745 of 26 September 1994 and amendments. Biomedical Laboratory Technicians work autonomously in analytical and research laboratories, performing biomedical and biotechnological analyses, and in particular in biochemistry, microbiology, parasitology and virology, pharmaco-toxicology, immunology, clinical pathology, haematology, cytology and histopathology, immunohistopathology and molecular biology.