- Pharmacology is the scientific study of medicines and other drugs and is therefore essential to all medical disciplines and the treatment of disease. Students will learn how drugs work in the body, how they are discovered and developed for human use, and how they can sometimes have unwanted effects.
- Students will develop their specialist knowledge, while building on foundations of human and molecular biology, with areas such as psychopharmacology, antiviral therapy, cancer therapy, and molecular pharmacology.
- This course will help students develop skills relevant to the pharmaceutical industry that will in turn help to address global challenges, such as tackling antibiotic resistance or discovering new drugs to treat Ebola and Covid-19; Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease; and diabetes and cardiovascular disease.