The PhD programme in Multidisciplinary Studies admits graduate students interested in educational and research programmes concerning both basic and clinical medical sciences related to major areas such as physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology of the cardiovascular system, as well as biochemistry, biophysics and molecular and cell biology. Of the outstanding past representatives of the School were in cardiovascular pharmaco-physiology Professor László Szekeres, in biochemistry and biophysics Professor Albert Szent-Györgyi (Nobel Laureate), and Professor Bruno F. Straub.

Research programmes: Experimental Cardiology and Cardiovascular Pharmacology; Experimental Study of Clinically Significant Cardiorespiratory Pathomechanisms; Clinical and experimental investigation of the pathomechanism of hypertension and the mechanisms of antihypertensive agents; Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular and Cell Biology. For research topics please consult the programme website.