If you love performing experiments in high-tech labs and want to study alongside researchers who are doing important work to understand how diseases such as Cancer, Alzheimer's and Asthma can be treated, this BSc (Hons) Pharmacology degree is for you.

Pharmacology is the study of drugs and how they affect living systems. Using specialist facilities, you'll deepen your chemistry and biology knowledge as you study how drugs – such as painkillers, antibiotics and even caffeine – alter the body.

You'll set yourself for a fulfilling career working in an industry that improves the lives of millions of people. You could work in areas such as new drug development, medical writing, regulatory affairs and pharmaceutical marketing.

Course highlights
Explore the latest techniques and methods for diagnosing and treating diseases
Investigate how cells communicate with each other and why people's bodies respond differently to the same drugs
Look at how new medicines are developed, tested and launched
Enhance your CV on a laboratory-based work experience module and on a sandwich year in industry (subject to successful applications)
Have the opportunity to do summer research placement at one of our partner universities overseas