MSc Cancer Biology

All our courses are designed around key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Cancer biology plays a pivotal and essential role in healthcare. This course is designed in response to the demand across industries for highly skilled researchers.

Subiectele componente sunt în fruntea științei moderne și atrag activități de cercetare de vârf. Programul își propune să exploreze procesele celulare normale și patologice, relaționându-le cu caracteristicile clinice, procedurile de diagnosticare și răspunsurile la terapia în boala neoplazică. Vă puteți personaliza învățarea selectând o specialitate din cercetarea translațională, genomică și proteomică și aplicațiile actuale de laborator. Modulele pot include subiecte precum țintirea terapeutică a cancerului, semnele distinctive ale cancerului și practica aplicată de laborator.

You learn through

• lectures and seminars
• a program of laboratory classes
• semester-long research project
• scientific writing
• oral presentations
• data handling

Applied learning

Laboratory experience and research project

You will have the opportunity to conduct a semester-long investigative research project within the cancer biology field. This will be aligned with the current research interests of an academic member of staff within the Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre.

The work will be aligned with the current research interests of an academic member of staff within our specialist Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre. The project will include a critical review of the literature relevant to your research project, the development of a project proposal, the design of research methods, and the analysis, presentation, and interpretation of experimental data.

Practical skills are developed throughout the course and you gain experience in molecular biology and other related techniques such as genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. All practical classes are led by academic staff whose research incorporates the latest research techniques. Research skills and statistical analysis are developed throughout the program and applied to relevant cancer-based problems and case studies.

Modules

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.

Final year

Compulsory modules

• Advanced Laboratory And Research Practice: 30 credits
• Applied Laboratory Practice: 15 credits
• Cellular And Molecular Basis Of Cancer: 15 credits
• Hallmarks Of Cancer: 15 credits
• Research Project: 60 credits
• Therapeutic Targeting In Cancer: 15 credits

Elective modules

• Cell And Molecular Biology: 15 credits
• Cell Biology: 15 credits
• Genomics And Proteomics: 15 credits
• Translational Research: 15 credits

This course prepares you for a career in

• Cercetare în domeniul sănătății, farmaceutice sau biotehnologie
• Academic research
• Vânzări medicale
• Scientific writing
• Consultancy

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

• NHS
• Public Health England
• Novartis
• ThermoFisher Scientific