Biomedical Science - Medical Immunology MSc

The module aims to examine advanced bioanalytical techniques that are used in biomedical research, for the analysis of products, for improving disease understanding, and for the analysis of disease biomarkers. It also provides a detailed understanding of the principles, theory and practice of bioanalytical techniques, including safety, instrumentation, sample preparation techniques together with analysis and interpretation of analytical data.

This module aims to give students a solid understanding of ethical principles and their application in biomedical science, cardiology and pharmaceutical science. Students will learn key concepts like autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice, and how to apply these in real-world research and clinical practice. They will be encouraged to analyse and resolve ethical dilemmas using theoretical knowledge and decision-making models.

The module aims to provide you with the tools required to design effective and efficient experiments, and to test scientific hypotheses. The module will also equip you with the tools necessary for statistical analysis in a hypothesis testing context.

The module aims to equip students with knowledge of current theories and approaches for leading and managing people, resources, and processes to achieve organisational goals, preparing them for leadership roles or senior positions within organisations.

This module aims to develop your skills in the planning and execution of an analytical, laboratory-based study and critical evaluation of real research results drawing on your acquired knowledge from other modules. In addition, the module aims to develop your communication skills to enable you to communicate your findings in written and oral form.

This module aims to enable students to integrate their knowledge of a range of different clinical disorders in order to investigate, diagnose and monitor human health and disease. This is an essential skill that is required to be able to unravel the complex and fascinating nature of human disease.

Students will also learn to critically evaluate the most up-to-date treatments that are available to patients. The focus will be on key Biomedical Science areas including cellular pathology, haematology, clinical biochemistry, clinical genetics, medical microbiology and Medical Immunology.  

Critical to all of this is an understanding of the procedures of quality control and quality assurance to ensure a high quality and consistent delivery of laboratory services.

This module aims to provide students with an in-depth knowledge of the concepts and language of Immunology. This will enable students to understand not only how humans respond to, and eliminate infection, but also tumours. Students will learn about the mechanisms by which tumours evade the immune response resulting in the growth of tumours that become detectable in the clinic. 

With this combined knowledge, students will go on to gain an understanding of how current immunological therapeutics may be used to harness the anti-tumour effect of the host immune response as well as learn how these therapeutic agents may be used to down regulate the immune response in allergy and auto-immunity.

The course is delivered by our experienced academics and industry partners in person and via digital platforms. Our learning activities include laboratory practicals, presentations, webinars, one-to-one tutorials and group projects.

You will be based at our north London campus and work in our state-of-the-art laboratories in the Hatchfield building.

Whether you are studying full or part-time – your course timetable will balance your study commitments on campus with time for work, life commitments and independent study.

We aim to make timetables available to students at least 2 weeks before the start of term. Some weeks are different due to how we schedule classes and arrange on-campus sessions.

In a typical year, you’ll spend about 1200 hours on your course.

Outside of teaching hours, you’ll learn independently through reading articles and books, working on projects, undertaking research, and preparing for assessments including coursework and presentations.

Typical weekly breakdown

A typical week looks like this:

Learning terms

On-campus: This includes tutor-led sessions such as seminars, lab sessions and demonstrations as well as student-led sessions for work in small groups.

Online learning: This is teaching that is delivered online using tools like Skype or Zoom, as well as work that you do yourself using online teaching resources.

Independent study: This is the work you do in your own time including reading and research.

Part-time study
You can also study this course part-time.

We have a strong support network online and on campus to help you develop your academic skills. We offer one-to-one and group sessions to develop your learning skills together with academic support from our library, IT teams and learning experts.

Your knowledge and understanding will be assessed formally and informally with seminar presentations, written assignments, laboratory reports, practical and theory exams. Your practical skills will be assessed by laboratory reports and research project work.

Each term, you'll get regular feedback on your learning.