Medicinal Chemistry is the branch of science concerned with the design, synthesis and optimisation of chemical and biochemical products to combat disease.
Medicinal chemists work in the pharmaceutical and health products industries.
This course is designed for students who like chemistry with a biological slant and enjoy solving problems that will benefit people's health. It opens up an exciting choice of careers in either a hospital or a health-related industry, management, sales and patents, or research and development in the pharmaceutical industry. We want you to start by having a good understanding of chemistry and biology, so that you can understand the structure of drugs, their effects on the body and their ability to counteract disease. The modules you study in the first year provide this thorough grounding in chemistry and biology. There is also a chance to learn a foreign language or to study physics, physiology, or experimental chemistry.