The Master's Degree in research, development and Drug Innovation (MIDI) of the University of Navarra celebrates its 25th anniversary. In this time more than 450 students have been trained in this Master's Degree considered, for the last ten years, as the best in Spain in Pharmacy, according to the last ranking of postgraduates prepared by El Mundo. Seventy percent of its students find work within a month of completing it.

It began in 1989 when the School of Pharmacy saw the need to train highly qualified professionals to be able to face the new challenges of the pharmaceutical sector, both in business and in researcher. Since then, the School has continued to bet on this postgraduate program as a challenge towards innovation and development of the sector.

Since its inception, with an innovative program and a format still pioneering in Spain, MIDI combines the latest proposals of research, teaching and development international students, with a close training-professional relationship with the industry. In these twenty-five years, countless professionals from the industrial sector and renowned researchers have passed through its classrooms and have participated in meetings with its students. During these years, professionals from companies and laboratories such as: Johnson&Johnson, ADAMED, CINFA, Rovi, HARLAN, Esteve, Almirall, GRI-CEL, CIMA, Servier, Geiserpharma, University of South Florida Health (USA), Servicio de Biochemistry Clínica del Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Toxicología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, la Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios y European Medicines Agency, among others, have given lectures.

Since its implementation, this Master's Degree has proven to be attractive to graduates from different healthcare disciplines and different Spanish regions, as well as to graduates from Europe and non-EU countries such as Yugoslavia, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica, Salvador, Peru, Cuba, Congo, Mozambique and Ivory Coast, among others. According to its director Silvia Pérez, "for the search for knowledge , multidisciplinarity is necessary and MIDI is the perfect ecosystem for this: it is a general program that covers all the areas and phases of medicine".