Undergraduate Biotechnology 2024-2025

This course will provide you with a flavour of the ways in which scientific and biomedical ideas and discoveries can be developed, commercialised and capitalised upon.  Although it is open to all, it is most suited to those with a biology background.

The course will allow you to understand the issues associated with the business of biomedical science.

The main aim of this introductory course, however, is to broaden your scientific horizons by gaining an awareness of the associated non-science issues, allowing for scientific discoveries to be viewed and appreciated in their proper context.

This is the first in a 3-course option (year 1/2, year 3 and year 4) that can lead to you obtaining your BSc in a discipline of Medical Science with Bio-Business and open up a whole new range of career options for you. However, this Introduction also aims to open up new ways of thinking and seeing biomedical discoveries, and is designed to be of value to all students with an inquiring mind, who see possibilities where others see challenges.

• A pre-requisite for all students intending to apply for a year’s industrial placement.
• This course covers the skills necessary to complete placement applications by exploring CV preparation, writing covering letters, completing application forms, identification of your skill sets and good interview technique.
• The course will prepare you for the workplace by making you aware of general employability skills and by helping you identify your own transferable skills.

• In the world of biomedicine and biotechnology, it is the individual who sees opportunities where others see challenges who drives innovation…and goes on to change the world

• When you make that discovery or invention, will you be prepared to seize the opportunity and change the world?

• In the world of biomedicine and biotechnology, it is the small, nimble, dynamic, entrepreneurial companies who drive innovation…and go on to change the world

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  When you go to work for that dynamic start-up company, will you have the right mindset and skills to ensure that the product reaches the patient or the customer?

• BT3502 can be taken either as a stand-alone course or as part of the “with Biobusiness” degree option. It aims to be both fun and “different” – allowing many students to explore an area they have not come across elsewhere, and to discover, develop and apply skills not previously required in the degree programme.

• this is the final course of 3 on Bio-Business and deals in depth with finance, corporate governance and business models;
• the major assessment involves the students working together in teams to set up a virtual bio-business and to pitch this business to a group of experts in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector;
• the team will adopt the roles of senior management team and present to the experts their part of the business

• an industrial placement allows students to experience workplace culture and makes them more effective employees following graduation;
• placements vary considerably but in general terms, students are placed in an industrial, commercial or research environment where they obtain a breadth of practical experience to complement their degree programme;
• students are employed by their host company and can expect to work a normal 40 hour week, possibly on a number of projects, over a full calendar year;
• tutorial assistance from a member of the University academic staff is available via email and / or telephone throughout the year