Molecular Bioengineering with a Year Abroad Imperial

Overview

Our graduates have the ability to become leaders in their chosen areas. This Molecular Bioengineering with a Year Abroad MEng course offered at Imperial is designed to develop your leadership, communication and teamwork skills, introducing you to professional standards and developing your understanding of engineers’ obligations to society, the profession and the environment.

Quick Facts:

• With this unique combination of skills, you will be well placed to address the global challenges of today: health and well-being agenda, personalised medicine, new biomedical technology industries.
• You will gain a theoretical understanding through lectures, study groups and taught classes. During practical wet and dry labs and activities, you will work on real-world projects in medicine and biology with life-changing potential.
• Alongside a breadth of core engineering and biomedical engineering knowledge, graduates of this course gain a specialist understanding of biochemical, physiological and biological processes allied to excellent advanced laboratory skills in chemical biology, molecular biology, synthetic biology, analytical sciences, microfluidics and device engineering.
• These unique skills will ensure graduates are well-placed to help address the global challenges of health and well-being.
• Our degrees will not only prepare you for a career in the rapidly growing field of biomedical engineering, but also provide a foundation for careers in life sciences and pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and synthetic biology, regenerative medicine and cell therapy and opportunities arising as a result of new tools of data analysis, genomics sequencing, artificial intelligence and mathematical modelling.

Recent graduates of the Department have become:

• Graduate Engineer, Orthopaedic and neurosurgery company
• GSK Future Leaders Programme, GSK
• Biomedical Imaging Scientist, Medtech company
• Trainee Clinical Bioinformatician, NHS
• PhD student, Francis Crick Institute