Medical Biochemistry with Industrial/Professional Experience – (B.Sc.)

These programmes are aimed towards biochemists that 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. These 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 course, or by taking a specialist Masters course in, for example, Bioinformatics.

The third year of this four year programme is the placement year, during which students complete a research project in an institution in the UK or abroad. The University assists students in finding placements and currently has established links with approximately three hundred institutions. Medical Biochemistry students have recently had placements with organisations including GlaxoSmithKline, the Medical Research Council and the Mayo Clinic, USA.