Pharmacology and Drug Discovery

Gain an advanced understanding of how drugs interact with receptors, cells, tissues, and whole organisms.

Your four-year integrated masters, based in our multi-million pound, state-of-the-art Life Sciences building, will equip you with a sound scientific knowledge base in pharmacology to FHEQ level 7 and in biochemistry and physiology to at least FHEQ Level 5.

You will graduate with the research skills vital for further study and the tools needed for a broad variety of professions* including laboratory-based research, jobs in the pharmacology and neuroscience sector, and the media.

You will have the opportunity to select a year in employment placement, to gain experience in an industrial setting.

You will also gain extensive experience from a variety of field trips in possible locations like the New Forest, Spain, and Belize and will become a part of our research community, spending your final year embedded alongside one of our leading research groups.

You will complete extended projects in a specialised area of your choice and work alongside, and be taught by, leading academics in their research fields. They will support you in developing a knowledge of life at different levels - from molecules and cells, to whole communities and global ecosystems.

*99% of Biological Sciences graduates were in employment or further study 15 months after graduation (Graduate Outcomes 2020/2021).