Course profiles
Medical Biochemistry
These programmes are designed for biochemists who are considering a career in research into the biochemical basis of disease and therapeutic medicine. This area is very promising in terms of career development, because many pharmaceutical and health care companies require well-trained medical biochemists. Graduates become key employees in the efforts of such companies to develop new drugs targeted against specific enzymes, hormone receptors or other biologically important molecules. As an alternative to entering industry directly, many medical biochemistry graduates continue their careers via a PhD, or by taking a specialist Masters course in, for example, Bioinformatics.
The current final year teaching includes topics such as: Biochemical Basis of Disease, Protein Structure and Function, Molecular Biology of Cancer, Cardiovascular System in Health and Disease, Cell Signalling, Clinical Genetics, Current Topics in Bioinformatics, Glycobiology - Glycan Functions in Health and Disease, Immune Response and Disease.
- with Industrial/Professional Experience
These degree courses include a year spent in a professional setting. This setting is usually an industrial or international research organisation, undertaking pure or applied research and development.