Pharmacology

Do you want to learn how drugs work in the body, how they are discovered, developed for human use, and how they can sometimes have unwanted effects?

This course will equip you with the key pharmaceutical industry skills to address global challenges like antibiotic resistance. You'll gain knowledge to develop new treatments for diseases such as diabetes, COVID-19, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, and cardiovascular conditions.

At Leeds, we prepare you for the workplace, ensuring you have the knowledge, skills, and attributes for a successful career. You'll complete a capstone research project, showcasing your expertise to potential employers and integrating everything you've learned during your degree.

This integrated Masters (MBiol) gives you an additional year of specialist training. You will study advanced research topics and undertake your own extended research project within one of the major research laboratories in the School of Biomedical Sciences or an appropriate period of work-based practice.

You may also choose to apply for our three-year BSc and transfer to an MBiol up until the end of your second year, subject to suitable academic performance, subject to suitable academic performance and availability.

Why study at Leeds

• Study with one of the largest centres for biological sciences research in the UK**,** with access to cutting‑edge facilities, industry links and specialist research opportunities.

• Designed to give a broad scientific foundation and key graduate skills for those interested in pharmacology.

• Benefit from our pharmaceutical industry partnerships through guest lectures from international companies such as Labcorp and AstraZeneca.

• Delivered using inspirational, engaging and inclusive approaches.

• Develop experimental skills in specialised laboratories.

• Experimental skills modules throughout the first 2 years train you to identify and find answers to key biomedical and pharmacological questions.

• The opportunity to undertake an extended capstone research project under the supervision of a field-leading academic, further developing the key skills and attributes that will set you apart in the graduate job market and in application for postgraduate research degrees (eg PhD).

• Flexible options to transfer onto other suitable and related degrees at the end of year 1, as many programmes within our School share a common first year.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Royal Society of Biology