Course summary

Deepen your understanding and identify strategies to tackle global health challenges in areas including antimicrobial resistance, autoimmunity, inflammatory diseases and ageing, cancer and immunotherapy. Join our thriving community of biomedical scientists to develop your skills and creativity for identifying and developing solutions to existing and emerging global health challenges. What makes this course different? Help to tackle global health challenges with a Masters degree in Biomedical Sciences, learning and researching within the huge diversity of the UK’s largest healthcare region. This programme will develop and equip you with the necessary academic and research skills to be able to make a real-life impact on some of the most pressing biomedical-related health issues through subsequent contributions to the international workforce.  A combination of taught and research components will expose you to cutting-edge research that spans cellular, molecular and whole-body systems and integrates basic, translational and applied clinical science.

• Expert Supervision: Get guidance from world-leading academics throughout your journey, mastering essential techniques and training.

• Benefit from being based at the Birmingham health campus, co-located with the University Hospital of Birmingham and the Birmingham Women’s Hospital, as well as the Institute of Translational Medicine and Institute of Biomedical Research.

• Work in a wide range of cutting-edge research lab spaces embedded in research facilities right across the university and the health partners co-located with us.

• The research project will allow you to practically apply the skills learned in a real-world research environment, with the potential to make a real difference.

• The programme will deliver career-focused skills that will enhance your employability – you will become a critical thinker who can work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.

• In-depth training in critical academic and research skills, providing you with the expertise needed for advanced scientific enquiry and communication in the field of Biomedical and Health Sciences.