Cancer and Molecular and Cellular Biology (Online)

Overview

You’ll discover how the treatment and diagnosis of cancer has advanced and how new therapies are developed, evaluated and implemented. You’ll also gain strong practical skills: you’ll take a research skills module and a three-month laboratory project.

• Study and contribute to the latest developments in the treatment of cancer
• Complete a three-month lab project, with an option to embed in one of our six research teams
• Taught by the UK’s leading oncology experts – we’re ranked number one for cancer research (REF 2014)
• Part-time option, so you can fit your studies around your other commitments

• An ideal career boost if you want to work in research, biotech or complete a PhD

What you'll study

This Cancer and Molecular and Cellular Biology (Online) programme at Queen Mary University of London gives you a detailed and thorough understanding of the molecular and cellular basis of cancer and its treatments. You’ll also develop a deep knowledge of cancer biology, pathology, pharmacology and drug development.

You’ll study research methods and techniques, enabling you to make the most of the three-month laboratory project that forms a central component of the programme.

During your laboratory project, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake research at your workplace or an appropriate local research laboratory. You’ll gain valuable scientific and transferable skills, as well as experience of the research process – including preparation of a thesis – so you’ll have a solid foundation for a future career in scientific research.

Career paths

You’ll leave this programme with the clinical skills and experience necessary to pursue further academic research at PhD or MD level. This programme also provides a strong foundation if you want to work in a clinical, pharmaceutical or diagnostic setting.

Career destinations of past Barts Cancer Institute students include roles in higher education, the NHS, the pharmaceutical industry and charitable trusts. Our graduates have gone on to jobs such as:

• research assistant
• tissue bank officer
• clinical trials associate
• lab technician
• healthcare scientist
• facilitator of clinical research
• clinical research practitioner

Each year we retain a proportion of our graduates within the Institute as PhD students, research assistants or clinical trial co-ordinators.