Master's Programme in Molecular Biology

Molecular biology has invaluable contributions to the understanding of diseases, including HIV, cancers, diabetes and prionic diseases.
At a fundamental level, molecular biology looks at life from a molecular perspective – how it started and how it keeps going. The molecules that we study can only be fully understood by considering their information content and properties in relation to a living organism.

In Molecular Biology we ask:

How do genes cause function and characteristics in organisms?
How do diseases emerge, and how do we develop new treatments?
How do we improve our access to food, its nutritional value and safety?
Knowledge of theoretical and practical molecular biology is necessary to understand and create new knowledge in biotechnology and biological and medical science. There are many techniques specific to our field, which are being developed intensively. Molecular biology is also important for developing good data tools for the analysis of biological data.

Master’s projects in Molecular Biology cover a wide professional range and are carried out in different research groups and departments at the university but also at the University Hospital and Institute of Marine Research.

You can choose a research project among the areas of

protein structure and function relationship
signal transduction and regulation in biological systems
biological computation and bioinformatics
Master’s students have their own study hall and social area close to the research facilities, and there is a close connection between staff and students.