Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences University of Leeds, UK

Become an expert in a broad range of medical and bioscience-related disciplines within an area that informs challenges such as dementia, managing chronic pain and the impacts of the environment and lifestyle on health.

You’ll be provided with the professional and scientific skills training, to increase your graduate prospects in a wide number of fields such as biopharmaceutical industry, clinical trials, scientific research, drug development, PhD research or postgraduate medicine.

Biomedical sciences is the extensive study of the human beings, organs, cells and systems, and includes a range of biomedical subjects such as anatomy, endocrinology, microbiology and neuroscience.

You’ll gain an integrated knowledge of the human body; how it works in health and disease and of current biomedical science techniques and methodologies.

On this course, you will develop a comprehensive scientific understanding, and be given the opportunity to develop specialist knowledge in areas such as:

• Human physiology
• Pharmacology and drug development
• Neuroscience
• Cancer biology
• Reproductive biology
• Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering

Our optional Integrated Masters (MBiol) offers you an additional year of specialist training, to study advanced research topics and undertake your own extended project within one of the major research laboratories in the department.

Course highlights

• Designed to give a broad scientific foundation for those interested in biomedical sciences.
• Develop your skills through practical training in specialised laboratories, including hands-on anatomy. Experimental Skills module identifies the effects of drugs acting on the cardiac and respiratory systems.
• A wide range of research-led optional modules includes principles of drug discovery, molecular neuroscience, cellular cardiology and neuropharmacology.
• Carry out an independent research project under the supervision of a field-leading academic, further developing the transferable skills that will set you apart in the graduate job market.
• Current global challenges that are relevant to medical sciences include dementia, complexities of managing chronic pain, sedentary lifestyle impacts on health.