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Study Details: 1 year
Are you eager to gain advanced technical research skills and work at the forefront of drug discovery? Our Drug Discovery and Development MSc offers comprehensive expertise in every stage of the drug development process, addressing the ongoing need for new treatments and preparing for emerging health challenges.
Beyond the core modules, you’ll explore two specialist areas in greater depth, choosing from topics including central nervous system disorders, anti-cancer personalised medicines and structural-based drug design.
Build your knowledge through lectures, tutorials, case studies and seminars, and spend a significant portion of your year applying your skills in lab work – culminating in a lab-based dissertation project with an academic or industry partner.
Your in-depth expertise together with extensive practical experience will give you the foundation to contribute to potentially life-changing advances in pharmaceutical development.
A second-class UK Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related subject such as pharmacy, pharmaceutical science, pharmacology, physiology, physical science, biochemistry, biotechnology, chemistry, chemical engineering, genetics, material sciences, or a medical degree (MBBS), or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.
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Along with practical expertise in all stages of the drug development pipeline, you’ll develop the critical thinking skills essential for work in academia or industry, and build your communication, presentation and report-writing capabilities.
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