MSc courses in Molecular Medicine and Cancer Research

School of Health Sciences & Social Care

Brunel University

The School offers two courses in this area:
MSc Molecular Medicine, and MSc Molecular Medicine and Cancer Research

These newly designed MSc courses will be fully integrated into the research activities of the division of Biosciences, within either the Centre for Cell and Chromosome Biology or the Brunel Institute for Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics. Students undertaking their research dissertation will be under the direct supervision of a research active member of staff within one of the centres.

Research activity in Biosciences includes:

The genetics of leukaemia, breast, prostate, lung and skin cancer
The role of telomeres in the development of cancer, genomic instability and damage response
Cellular mechanisms such as gene expression, splicing and DNA repair
Genome and nuclear organisation in development, differentiation and disease
Gene and stem cell therapies
Hereditary neurodegenerative diseases
Cellular, organismal and premature ageing
Radiation biology and chromosomal abberations
Biomaterials for wound healing and implants
Immunobiology, complement, host:parasite interactions
Genetics and Epigenetics of model organisms such as mouse, Drosophila, pig and snail
Bone metabolism
New therapeutic targets, drug resistance and genotoxicity
Endocrinology
Iron metabolism

Research in Biosciences is conducted in state-of-the-art facilities with access to all modern molecular genetics techniques and post-genomic technologies including automated DNA sequencing, microarray, proteomic analysis, bioinformatics, fluorescence in situ hybridisation, cell and tissue culture, real-time microscopy, 3 and 4-dimensional fluorescence microscopy with image analysis, confocal laser microscopy and RT-PCR.

For full details of both courses, please visit our postgraduate courses page at:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/health/healthcourse/postgraduate