PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE
MAKE A GLOBAL IMPACT ON HEALTHCARE
A degree in pharmaceutical science will equip you for a diverse career and enable you to make a genuine impact on human health and wellbeing. Your understanding of the entire drug discovery pipeline will be your key to success.
You’ ll be taught by internationally renowned scientists at the forefront of tackling global health challenges. From them, you’ ll learn what it takes to invent and develop a new medicine to improve health outcomes around the world.
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE As well as gaining a deep theoretical understanding of the fundamental concepts in chemistry, biology and product formulation, you’ ll get plenty of time in the lab. You’ ll learn how to design and conduct experiments using industry-standard instrumentation and, most importantly, how to interpret and effectively communicate your data.
A SECTOR BRIMMING WITH OPPORTUNITY As the world continues to face health challenges, pharmaceutical scientists will play a central role in helping to solve these problems over the coming decades. Globally, pharmaceuticals is a growth sector and your skills will always be relevant.
EQUIP YOURSELF FOR CAREER DIVERSITY Choosing pharmaceutical science opens doors to a broad spectrum of career opportunities beyond medical research and development. While pharmaceutical scientists are integral to the development of medicines, their versatile skills and knowledge can be applied in a wide range of industries, including skincare and cosmetics, paints and coatings, and food and beverage. Whether you aspire to be a product developer or formulation scientist, quality assurance officer or patent attorney, pharmaceutical science provides a solid foundation for roles that require an understanding of chemistry, or roles within businesses that develop chemically-based products.
REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE You will develop specialist knowledge and techniques and your understanding of the application of pharmaceutical methods and professional practices required in the workplace.
In your final year, you’ ll gain practical skills through a major research project supervised by experts in the field or an industry placement scheduled for four weeks of full-time work. You’ ll also undertake a Professional Experience unit that will prepare you to enter the job market. You’ ll be more than ready for a career in pharmaceutical research, the biomedical industry and many other fields that require advanced chemical formulation skills.
WHAT WILL YOU ACTUALLY STUDY? A career in pharmaceutical sciences can take you in a number of exciting directions. During the course, you’ ll have the opportunity to align your interests with particular aspects of the drug discovery pipeline.
Drug discovery biology Drug discovery biology is about gaining an understanding of what causes different types of diseases and how current medicines work at a molecular level to treat them. You’ ll get hands-on experience designing experiments to identify and test new biological targets for the development of novel drugs.
Medicinal chemistry Medicinal chemistry represents the intersection of biology and chemistry, and involves integrating your knowledge of how drugs work into the design of new medicines. You’ ll learn contemporary approaches to the design of new bioactive molecules and their development into potential medicines from conception through to their clinical use. By applying the principles and techniques of organic chemistry, medicinal chemists discover and develop compounds that prevent, treat or cure disease.
Formulation science Formulation science is about the principles of designing pharmaceutical products and how medicines are absorbed and travel around the body to the site of action. Drawing on techniques used in the pharmaceutical industry, you’ ll learn how to formulate active pharmaceutical ingredients to achieve their therapeutically relevant absorption and effect duration.
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