Aston University, MSc, Biomedical Sciences

The course is based around a core of 6 compulsory modules and a research project that provide detailed study and practical experience in drug design and in the development of professional skills; topics include: drug discovery; computer-aided drug design; biology of disease; effective strategies for drug delivery; research methods and exploiting research; the supervised research project will last for 5 months and be at the level expected for the 1st year of PhD studies; examples of potential topics include computer based drug design; chemical synthesis of compound libraries for screening, assay development and molecularly imprinted polymers as receptor mimics.