Biomedical Sciences
Biomedical science with a specialism in biochemistry sits at the molecular heart of modern healthcare, examining the chemical processes that sustain life and exploring what happens when they go wrong. Biochemistry provides the foundational tools for understanding everything from enzyme kinetics and gene expression to cellular metabolism and molecular disease mechanisms. Within biomedical science this knowledge is applied to questions of profound clinical importance: how diseases like cancer, diabetes and genetic disorders develop at a molecular level, how diagnostic tests detect them, and how new therapies can be designed to interrupt the processes that cause harm.
At Brunel University London you will study for three years full-time, developing a rigorous scientific education in both the core principles of biochemistry and the biomedical applications that connect them to medicine and healthcare. You will build laboratory skills alongside the analytical and critical thinking that modern biological research demands, working with the experimental methods and equipment used in clinical and research settings. Biomedical scientists are the people who work behind the scenes in laboratories to produce the results on which clinical decisions depend, and this programme prepares you for that essential role.
Graduates in biomedical sciences with biochemistry specialism work in NHS hospital laboratories in clinical biochemistry, haematology, histopathology and transfusion science, in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, in research institutes, in regulatory agencies and in public health laboratories. Many graduates pursue Health and Care Professions Council registration as biomedical scientists, which is required for regulated laboratory practice within the NHS. Others go on to postgraduate study in biochemistry, molecular biology, drug discovery, clinical research or medicine itself through graduate-entry routes.
The combination of biochemical depth and biomedical application makes graduates versatile across the full range of life sciences research and healthcare roles.