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.
Example job titles include:
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research associate
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project manager
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trainee clinical vascular scientist (NHS)
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medical recruiter, scientist - IPS cells
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data scientist
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research practitioner (NHS)
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medical writer
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field application scientist
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.
