Study life sciences, pharmacy and chemistry

Biology and biomedical science

Our biology and biomedical courses are relevant to both professional biomedical and research careers. Our courses are taught by internationally recognised researchers and practising biomedical scientists, ensuring your learning reflects current practice.

Our extensive links with leading healthcare and research laboratories provide you the opportunity to enhance your learning and work with companies, such as GlaxoSmithKline and the Institute of Cancer Research.

Each of our courses offer an optional year integrated work placement programme to help you gain valuable, practical industry experience and provide you the opportunity to link your studies to a professional environment. In many cases flexible timetables and part-time options can help to fit your studies around other commitments.

Graduates have gone on to roles in a variety of careers in hospital laboratories, commercial laboratories, cancer research, sales, teaching and management.

Chemistry and pharmaceutical science

Students will develop extensive practical and research skills in our £6.8 million laboratories featuring industry standard, state-of-the-art equipment. Our courses are taught by internationally recognised researchers ensuring your learning reflects current practice. Guest speakers from the pharmaceutical and forensics industries will also support your learning.

An independent research project will provide you the opportunity to research an area of interest in depth, within industry or as collaborative research with other laboratories.

Accredited courses include recognition from The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences for our postgraduate Forensic Science course, and the Institute of Biomedical Science for our Biomedical Science and Cancer Biology courses.