This exciting course will provide you with broad research training to prepare for a career in biomedical research. This course is suitable preparation for subsequent PhD studies and for students planning a research career in industry or academia. You will spend the first term undertaking a number of taught modules to prepare you for your research project. This includes a research skills module in which you will gain hands-on training in advanced techniques such as confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, cloning, in situ hybridisation and bioinformatics. You will then choose research projects to pursue for the rest of the course in areas such as cancer biology, cardiovascular disease, stem cells and regenerative biology, microbiology and genetics.

All our Master’s courses emphasise the practical skills that employers need, whether that is the ability to identify plants, carry out environmental assessments or use the latest cutting-edge molecular techniques. As a University of Reading MSc graduate, you will be well equipped to work in the field or the lab, and in the private or public sector. Many of our graduates go on to study for a PhD and pursue a career in research either in industry or in universities. Typical roles of graduates from our ecology and wildlife-based MSc courses include conservation officers, project managers, field ecologists and environmental consultants. Graduates from our new biomedical MSc courses go on to pursue PhD studies and work in the pharmaceutical industry.