Biomedical & Molecular Sciences Research
|MSc
|Full Time
| Admissions status: OpenPlease see the modules list for further information.
The programme includes a 10-week laboratory experimental training period in the fundamental research techniques required for biomedical and molecular biological scientists. You will undertake a laboratory-based research project within a research team which accounts for 50 per cent of the programme. Research projects are offered by over 50 approved research active laboratories spread across the School of Biomedical Sciences and School of Medicine to capture a comprehensive scope of topics to suit a wide range of career aspirations. The programme also includes workshops in transferable, technical skills and specialist technical skills and complementary lectures detailing recent advances in cardiovascular biology, neurobiology, molecular genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. Assessments take the form of written examinations, workshop reports, practical write-ups, a research project, poster and oral presentations.
NB it cannot be guaranteed that all modules are offered in any particular academic year.
Credit level: 7
By the end of this module students should be able to:
- Understand and follow written experimental instructions, identify key issues and prepare summaries for multi-step experimental procedures
- Carry out advanced biochemistry and molecular biology experiments, analyse, present, and interpret results
- Safely use instruments found in typical bioscience laboratories
- Apply confidence criteria to their results, including reproducibility and accuracy estimates
- Prepare experimental reports of laboratory experiments
- Prepare discussion material and be prepared to relate results to published material
- Describe the outcome of work done and identify the key elements in a typical procedure
- Collect data and apply statistical analysis methods
- Identify safety issues in a laboratory environment.
Credit level: 7
At the end of the project students should be able to:
- Design and carry out appropriate experiments to test a hypothesis
- Interpret results and summarise main findings (conclusions)
- Carry out statistical analysis on data
- Keep professional records of work done
- Manage time effectively
- Develop problem solving and trouble shooting skills
- Have the ability to work easily and competently in a laboratory environment
- Analyse data critically and effectively
- Write up a research dissertation.
Credit level: 7
The module aims to teach specialised technical skills in bioscience disciplines, relevant to students' research projects and aims to equip students with particular skills that cannot be easily taught, hands-on, in large classes: for example electron microscopy, in situ hybridization, in vivo electrophysiology, brain perfusion, real time PCR, and microarrays. There are over 25 workshops to choose from.
Credit level: 7
By the end of the course students should have:
- A consolidated knowledge of the key areas and recent developments in cardiovascular biology, neurobiology, genetics and biochemistry and molecular biology
- An advanced knowledge in areas of current interest to biomedicine and biosciences
- The ability to prepare and present critical reports on topics of interest
- Critical awareness of current and emerging tools employed by researchers in biomedicine and the biosciences
- Developed their methods of preparing written and oral presentations associated with ideas and topics
- The ability to apply good laboratory practice codes and be able to complete COSHH forms
