Science Degrees in the Scotland

...Topics include small molecule drug discovery, biologic drug discovery, molecular pharmacology, basic genetics, basic immunology and microbiology...

...Our Biomedical Engineering programme covers the application of mechanical and electronic engineering principles to problems in medicine, including... Learn about: Biomedical Engineering...

...at the instrumentation required for medical purposes, and how that equipment is managed. The MSc programme has been designed to integrate with the UK NHS's... Learn about: Biomedical Engineering...

...The MSc project is assessed with the submission of a thesis and viva examination. Teaching Teaching is lecture based with directed self learning and tutorials...

...Progression to the dissertation is dependent on performance in the individual courses. The dissertation is assessed internally and externally and may require a viva examination...

...Syllabus The taught part of the course extends over two terms, consisting of 100 hours of lectures and 15 days of practical classes in addition to tutorials...

...Practical classes support the teaching. Dedication 12 months, full-time...

...a wider understanding of clinical issues. External experts are invited to give specialist lectures as part of the high quality taught programme...

...Induction Molecular Pharmacology Drug Metabolism & Toxicology Therapeutics, Introduction to Biobusiness Computing Statistics Generic Skills IT Skills Second Half-Session...

...To equip students for careers in the development, use and knowledge of new and current drugs. To achieve this the course will provide a multi-disciplinary...

...will be an intensive training in Biobusiness . The programme also involves an extended project in the laboratory of an Institute Principal Investigator...

...by an extensive range of equipment, including a well-equipped Magnetic Resonance Centre and the Department's John Mallard Scottish PET Centre with its cyclotron and PET scanner...

...in medicine has been, and continues to be, an area of vast expansion. The specialities of this programme include the full range of medical imaging modalities...

...and developments in gene therapy. Suitable for: Students whose backgrounds lie in non-clinical areas. Students whose backgrounds lie in non-clinical areas...

...the ways that environmental factors, including smoking and nutritional factors, interact with predispositions within the genome to produce abnormal clinical phenotypes...

...which places a strong emphasis on self-learning and IT-based approaches as well as cutting-edge practical techniques. Each student will receive an intensive...

...Assessment Assessment will be primarily through course work (essays, oral presentations, laboratory performance and project thesis). Two examination papers...

...in the second term students specialise in three areas. The third term is a research-style project. Examples of recent MSc projects include: Reconstruction...

...Reconstruction filtering of gamma camera PET data. Multi-leaf collimators in radiotherapy. Measurement of T1 values in dynamic breast MRI. Computer analysis...

...which employs radiation to destroy cancerous tissue; and Medical Electronics . The growth of computing technology in recent years has facilitated...