MRes Structural Molecular Biology at Imperial College London

Gain in-depth training of all major structural molecular biology techniques including its applications in drug discovery. This course provides excellent training for students to pursue a career in research with a focus on structural biology.

This one-year research-based postgraduate course is based mainly in the structural biology labs in the South Kensington campus.

Knowing the structure of a protein is vital to understanding how the protein works. With many structure determination techniques becoming semi-automatic and routine, there is demand for structural biology researchers who can understand how to use complementary techniques to derive biological function from structure.

This makes it essential that trained structural biologists have a solid background across all macromolecular structural determination techniques. Whether working in academia or industry.

This Masters in Research seeks to give you such a foundation. You will spend the majority of the year in laboratory-based research in one or two structural biology labs at, or associated with, Imperial. You will have opportunities to learn a wide range of skills in biological NMR, electron cryomicroscopy, structural bioinformatics, molecular dynamics, x-ray crystallography, or mass spectrometry.

You will attend a series of lectures covering protein structural principles and structure determination techniques. Also, you will benefit from skills workshops, helping you to succeed in research including networking, time management, writing, and wellbeing.