Your studies on Birkbeck’s BSc in Bioscience and Health will be at the interface between molecular and integrative biology, evolving disease therapies, and epidemiology and public health. You will develop your understanding of the science that underpins the investigation, diagnosis, management, and treatment of disease and of the socio-demographic, economic, and environmental factors important in managing human diseases. Learning with internationally recognized researchers, and studying this bioscience and health degree will provide you with an academic grounding in the science that underpins modern medicine, with the opportunity to explore public health management.
You will develop a sound knowledge of scientific principles across a range of disciplines, including biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, drugs and drug discovery, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, and physiology, and will understand their applications.
Birkbeck’s BSc Bioscience and Health graduates complete the degree with a set of valuable attributes and skills, for example:
analysis, critical evaluation, and synthesis of evidence, concepts, and principles
data analysis and problem-solving
practical laboratory skills
high-level oral and written communication skills in English
research skills.
You will find bioscience graduates in the following kinds of roles:
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies
NHS laboratory analysis
civil service
biosciences academic research.
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