Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry and a Year in Industry

About this programme

Explore the industrial development, production and quality control of new drugs in this specialist chemistry course. Explore the industrial development, optimisation and analysis of new drugs and therapeutics in this specialist chemistry course. Build your appreciation of the chemical sciences and the drug development process in this four-year course. Designed to prepare you for a career in the pharmaceutical industry or biomedical research, this course will help you develop an interconnected understanding of core chemistry topics. You'll deepen your knowledge of key topics relating to inorganic, organic, physical, analytical, synthetic and computational chemistry, through interdisciplinary modules. You'll also focus on the identification, development and analysis of new drugs and therapeutics. Extensive laboratory-based work will help develop your practical skills. You'll learn to synthesise chemicals and study chemical systems and build expertise in experimental measurements and computational models. As the course develops, you'll study strategies for targeting diseases and work with complex portfolios of data. This includes opportunities to specialise across a series of advanced topics in your third and fourth year. Part of your studies will see you analyse emergent ‘industry 4.0’ approaches and technologies such as rapid prototyping, 3D printing, electronics and machine learning. Your study reaches Master's level in your final year, where your work will culminate with a substantial research project in a medicinal chemistry-related field.