Pharmaceutical Chemistry with Year in Industry (Hons) Queen Mary University of London

Overview

With a strong emphasis on gaining practical laboratory experience and employability skills, our programme offers a comprehensive view of this exciting field.

Pharmacology, biochemistry, cancer chemotherapy, inorganic chemistry, spectroscopy – these are just a few of the areas you’ll examine. You’ll learn about pharmacology, biochemistry and cancer chemotherapy too. 

Learn how drugs are designed and optimised from lead compounds, their modes of action and pharmacology. We will also teach you how they are developed through trials and into manufacture.

Year in industry

• Want to pick up some solid work experience while practising your skills in a real-world laboratory? Apply for our Pharmaceutical Chemistry with Year in Industry (Hons) programme at Queen Mary University of London. 

• Some of our students have been awarded highly prestigious work placements with UK and international pharmaceutical companies. 

Careers

As well as being well equipped for a career in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries – which are among the UK’s largest – graduates are highly valued by business and finance employers for their data-handling and analytical skills. 93 per cent of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of graduation (HESA GOS 2017/18).Recent Pharmaceutical Chemistry graduates have been hired by:

• Boots UK
• EY
• ETH Zürich
• GlaxoSmithKline.