Bachelor of Science - Human Biosciences

Students may tailor their program to their own interests through diverse electives leading to one of the pre-defined sub-specialties:

• Biochemistry, • Gene regulation, • Health and disease, • Nutrition, • Or a student-defined general Human Biosciences degree.

Honors degree options involve the completion of a research project that may focus on either laboratory-based research, a literature-based systematic/scoping review, education/outreach, or entrepreneurship/business projects, depending on student interests and career goals.

Many of our undergraduates conduct research through the Memorial University Career Experience Program (MUCEP), ISWEP, Student Undergraduate Research Award (SURA), and other summer research programs. Ongoing research activities include studying the progression of cancer, the development of the immune system, describing protein structures that may lead to drug development, the role of small RNA in the control of gene expression, and how proteins that detect chemical signals in the body are involved in health and disease.