Master of Research - Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Science

Program Description On this course, students will develop their knowledge of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Science by studying the complexities of organic synthesis, synthesis of biologically important molecules and NMR spectra.

This accredited Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Science postgraduate degree covers a diverse range of materials, pharmaceutical and medicinal research and includes a substantial research led project. Students will also study current topics which include synthetic strategies involved in drug synthesis, disease state and the role of chemotherapeutics and synthesis of drug-like molecules.

Students will study under a Chemistry team comprised of academic and support staff that are subject experts in organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry. Scientists from AstraZeneca and Vectura deliver some of the module content and how it is relevant to their work place. Other guest lecturers from different companies and universities also present their research to students.

As well as working and studying under the direction of world leading pharmaceutical and medicinal science staff, students will gain hands on experience of a variety of modern instrumentation including:

• multi-nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry (NMR) • mass spectrometry • transmission electron microscopy (TEM) • scanning electron microscopy (SEM) • high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC)