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MSc Pharmaceutical Formulation and Entrepreneurship

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 year

Masters Degree Description

Build the mix of scientific and business skills needed to create and grow high-impact pharmaceutical ventures. You’ll learn all about the latest technologies in medicines development, as well as how to assess a new business concept, raise finance for it, and market it successfully.

Students will learn how to develop and assess a new business concept, and how to raise finance for and market a business and its outputs. They will build their scientific skill set by exploring four scientific research areas in pharmaceutics, and will interact closely with and be mentored by those who have direct experience of initiating a start-up business.

On the science side, you’ll build your research and analytical skills working with UCL’s world-leading academics, and explore the latest technologies being used to develop new medicines today, such as gene therapies and machine learning.

Entry Requirements

An upper second-class UK Bachelor's degree or higher in pharmacy, pharmaceutical science, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, biotechnology, pharmaceutics or a related field in the life or physical sciences, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard is required.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

As well as expertise across all the relevant sciences that feed into medicines design, development and manufacture, you’ll hone essential business and entrepreneurship skills that will make you highly sought after in the global jobs market.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  •  Mastering Entrepreneurship
  •  Entrepreneurial Finance
  •  Initiating a Pharmaceutical Start-Up
  •  Pharmaceutical and Biotech Policies and Practices
  •  Formulation Project

 Business Project

Optional modules

  •  Analysis and Quality Control
  •  Preformulation
  •  Formulation of Small Molecules
  •  Personalised Medicine
  •  Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  •  Nanomedicines
  •  Formulation of Natural Products and Cosmeceuticals
  •  Polymers in Drug Delivery
  •  Regulatory Affairs
  •  Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
  •  Computational Pharmaceutics
  •  Pharmacometrics

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