Biomedical Sciences

Biomedical science, especially as applied to the development of medical progress, has been a success story for Britain. A wide range of employment in fundamental research, in the drug industries, research management and teaching all require people with a proven ability of advanced study but with a flexible approach to the biomedical sciences.

The Biomedical Science BSc interdisciplinary degree is the most popular of our School programmes with an entry of around 230 students per year. It is unique in offering you a flexible plan in which to develop your second and third years at university, allowing you to construct your own degree programme based on your strengths and interests from a wide range of modules. You will benefit from high quality teaching within modules which reflect staff expertise and research interests.

Universities with medical schools such as ours have a special interest in biomedical science. The disciplines of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics and pharmacology combine to form the backbone of advanced understanding of biomedical science. In many universities each academic department runs its own degree programme in relative isolation. Modern scientific research, however, has progressed beyond these traditional disciplinary boundaries. King’s School of Biomedical Sciences recognised this trend early and its academic staff are now located in research groups according to their interests: the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, for example, includes neuroscientists, anatomists, pharmacologists, physiologists and molecular biologists working together on shared research issues.

The Biomedical Science BSc was designed to match this change by providing an undergraduate degree that allowed students to be well prepared in the range of biomedical disciplines, but also to be able to develop skills and follow some of the excitement of modern research groupings.