Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: MSc: 12 months full-time
This MSc will equip students with state-of-the-art knowledge relating to the mechanisms of chronic disease progression, how these underlying causes are targeted therapeutically and technologies that are used to help detect and diagnose the chosen disease specialism. It has been designed to directly meet research demands in the NHS, industry and academia where there is a need for scientists with both biological knowledge and the computational, statistical, analytical, and practical skills to drive precision medicine.
WHY THIS PROGRAMME
This programme would primarily target life science or medical science graduates. Students with an interest in precision medicine who have a background in chemical sciences, physics, mathematics, computing or pharmacy may also be interested.
In exceptional circumstances, other science graduates or bioscience graduates with an ordinary degree may be eligible, on demonstration of appropriate postgraduate professional experience.
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This programme will provide an excellent background for those looking to establish a career in biomedical research in academia, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in the precision medicine field and clinical sciences in the NHS.
Other opportunities lie in the area of clinical trials and research management.
Specialisms offer people a focused and in-depth knowledge of their chosen disease in the context of PM. The programme will provide an excellent foundation to enable people to conduct biomedical research in the chosen disease specialism. There are companies that are dedicated to the particular disease specialisms e.g. pharmaceutical companies developing drugs for cancer, cardiac disease or arthritis. There are also NHS training programmes relating to areas of specialism, e.g. cardiac physiologist, imaging specialist, clinical immunology, cancer genomics.
Students gain training to work in “wet” or “dry” laboratories. The programme offers a laboratory skills course which will equip students with the basic research skills they need to work in a “wet” laboratory setting and training in bioinformatics to equip students with necessary skills for the data sciences or computational sectors.
We have a number of industrial partners lined up that will offer a range of projects, again this is in line with the university’s graduate skills criteria. We have Canon, pharmatics, Reprocell, bioclavis, the MRI department in the ICE facility, to name a few that will take students on for projects. This range of companies can offer both wet or dry projects.
Students also have the opportunity to do projects in the research institutes of their chosen specialism.
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Some graduates have went on to study for PhDs in fields such as medicine (inflammation and repair), biotechnology, precision medicine, immunology, and cardiovascular science. One or two graduates have also progressed on to graduate entry routes to medicine.
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