Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology

Overview

It forms

• biochemists, capable of understanding the structure, functioning and evolution of macromolecules that form the basis of the structure, functioning and programming of living organisms;

• Molecular and cellular biologists who understand how cells interact with each other, how they grow, adapt, differentiate and die.

Your future job

By touching the very essence of life, biology is the cornerstone of many scientific disciplines: analysis of genetic information, genome sequencing, biotechnology, etc.

Along with chemistry, it contributes to the design of new products. In interaction with physics, it generates new methods for the detection of diseased cells, for example cancer cells.

Our graduates exercise their skills in scientific, fundamental or applied research in research institutes or private laboratories, in expertise and resource management in the private or public sector, in education, training and communication.

Your programme

The Master in Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology from Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) offers you:

• original pedagogical tools: workshop, tutorial thesis;
• the possibility of discovering, during three fifteen-day periods, specialized laboratories of Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology (LIBST) ;
• advanced training in experimental research, through a one-year thesis in a laboratory of your choice;
• a professional immersion internship in a laboratory or a company, in Belgium or abroad;
• the possibility of carrying out the internship or part of the master's degree abroad.