Chemistry with Biomedicine BSc at Kings College London

Overview

Our Chemistry with Biomedicine BSc course will give you a strong theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry. You’ll explore the different strands of chemistry and apply them to biological and biomedical systems - all under the guidance of our research-led scientists. You’ll be taught on campus and in our state-of-the-art teaching laboratories. At the end of your studies, you’ll be an articulate, biomedically aware chemist, with a broad range of skills suitable for a variety of careers, from chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries to finance, media and law.

Key benefits

• Accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• The only London university to combine Chemistry and Biomedicine, taking advantage of King’s strengths in biomedical research.
• Fully integrated laboratory facilities in the heart of London.
• Research-enriched teaching from chemists working within a broad range of biomedical and health areas.
• Includes an integrated laboratory course that brings together the different strands of chemistry and applies them to biological and biomedical systems.
• Career flexibility: you’ll gain a wide range of skills to use in the growing fields of biomedical engineering, biotech and basic biological and biomedical research.

Description

Our Chemistry with Biomedicine BSc will provide you with a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of chemistry and prepare you for a professional life in the ever-changing environment of 21st century chemistry. To achieve these goals, our course integrates the teaching of chemistry foundations with the application of chemistry principles and techniques, using examples taken from the very broad range of biomedical research and practice at King’s.

The course starts with the principles of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry, with additional maths to ensure you can successfully handle advanced physical and computational chemistry. It incorporates an integrated laboratory course that brings together the different strands of chemistry.

Our academics have expertise in a wide range of research areas, including the development of the full range of modern in vivo imaging techniques, enzyme biomimics, biomolecular spectroscopy, computational methods, materials science and nanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences from drug discovery  to drug delivery, analytical, green and sustainable chemistry, and a wide range of developmental and cell biology

Career prospects

Our Chemistry graduates are in high demand because employers recognise the wide range of skills that they possess. We train Chemists to think logically and apply mathematical and practical techniques to solve real problems. Our ambition is to produce graduates who have a wider vision of the applications of chemistry for the coming decades and who are equipped for flexible careers to adapt to the changing global and national challenges facing Chemistry.

Career destinations

Recent graduates have started PhD’s in Chemistry at Oxford, Warwick and Berkeley (California) and in Biotechnology at Lausanne (Switzerland). Others have been selected for graduate training programmes as:

• Market Analyst, RBS
• Technology Consultant, KPMG
• Tax Associate, Grant Thornton
• Media Analyst, Media Sense Communications

And begun training in:

• Law
• Medicine
• Financial Management
• Molecular and Life Science