MRES Pharmacology and Biotechnology at Sheffield Hallam University

• Undertake taught modules and an extended research project in a professional lab.
• Explore the fundamental principles of molecular pharmacology and biotechnology.
• Enhance your laboratory skills from experimental design through to interpretation of results.
• Learn how to synthesise new drugs, or produce them from genetically modified microorganism.
• Develop as an autonomous learner capable of reflecting on learning, knowledge and professional practices.

This course has been designed to respond to the increasing need for professional pharmacologists  and biotechnologists. You’ll learn to translate laboratory medical research into clinical applications, and study topics such as diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of disease. Throughout, you'll learn to apply medical biotechnology, biopharmaceutics and drugs.

You'll undertake a research project aligned with the current research interests of an academic member of staff, within our professional laboratories of the Biomolecular Research Centre.

You'll work within a real research group, fully supported throughout by your academic supervisor. The project will include a critical review of the literature relevant to your research project, the development of a project proposal, the development of research methods and the analysis, presentation and interpretation of experimental data.  Since the project extends over two semesters, it allows you to have the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the project and to have the time to collect meaningful data, thus enabling an authentic research scientist experience.

Future careers

This course has been designed to incorporate the most up-to-date knowledge and technologies in the field and our graduates are working in most prestigious institutions and industries. This course will give the opportunities for the working the pharmacology and biotechnology expanding marketplace..

This course prepares you for a career in

• academic research
• the industrial biotechnology sector
• the health biotechnology sector
• the pharmaceutical industry
• environmental sector

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

• AstraZeneca
• Danone
• Eli Lilly
• Certara
• BD Biosciences (San Francisco Bay Area, US
• PhD Researcher at St George’s University of London
• Associate member at Higher Education Academy (UK)
• HR Operations at Deloitte India (Offices of the US)