Advert
Advert
  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 Year Full-time

Masters Degree Description

Empowering future scientists and clinicians to transform human health through cutting-edge molecular research.

Develop as a scientist or scientifically literate clinician and study molecular approaches to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of a range of cancer, chronic, autoimmune and genetic diseases.

This MSc Molecular Medicine at Leeds offers you a unique opportunity to develop advanced scientific skills, engage in impactful research, and specialise in either Disease Mechanisms and Treatments or Cancer Biology and Therapy. Delivered by world-leading academics in a research-intensive environment, this programme prepares graduates for careers in academia, industry, and clinical research.

Entry Requirements

A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) minimum in a relevant subject (biomedicine, medicine, biological sciences or possibly natural sciences) or equivalent qualification.

This course is also available as an intercalated programme to students who have completed three years of a UK medical degree. Read more at Intercalation.

Students taking this course as an intercalated degree are subject to different deadlines of application

Find out more

Fees

See our website for fees

Student Destinations

These are some of the career paths chosen by our alumni:

  • PhD students at the University of Leeds and elsewhere
  • Medical writers
  • Research scientists in industry (Nikon, Cyprotex, Lonza)
  • Research assistants in academia
  • Healthcare technicians and scientists working for the NHS

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Research Informatics and Dissemination – 15 credits
  • Methods in Biomedical Research – 15 credits
  • Preparing for the Research Project – 15 credits  
  • Research Project – 75 credits

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Human Molecular Genetics – 15 credits  
  • Immunity and Disease – 15 credits  
  • Models of Human Disease for Translational Research – 15 credits  
  • Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology – 15 credits  
  • Stem Cell Biology: A Genomics and Systems Biology Approach to Haematopoiesis – 15 credits  
  • Cancer Biology and Molecular Oncology – 15 credits  

Cancer Biology and Therapy pathway

Compulsory modules

  • The Molecular Biology of Cancer – 15 credits
  • Research Informatics and Dissemination – 15 credits
  • Methods in Biomedical Research – 15 credits
  • Cancer Drug Development – 15 credits
  • Stem Cell Biology: A Genomics and Systems Biology Approach to Haematopoiesis – 15 credits 
  • Preparing for the Research Project – 15 credits  

Research Project – 75 credits

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Immunity and Disease – 15 credits  
  • Models of Human Disease for Translational Research – 15 credits   

Find out more

Add to comparison

Learn more about University of Leeds

Where is University of Leeds?