Medical Microbiology

In your first year, you will gain a broad understanding of biomedical sciences and take units in microbiology and diseases caused by microorganisms. In year two you will study the cellular and molecular basis of human diseases caused by microorganisms, such as shigella and tuberculosis, and viruses including SARS-CoV-2. As well as learning about the immune response to a variety of infectious microbes, you will investigate how bacteria acquire antibiotic resistance.

You will take infection units and an optional unit in your third year. You will write a grant proposal or undertake a research project, working in our research projects laboratory in the Biomedical Sciences Building. The additional fourth year includes an extended research project and research skills training with an emphasis on enterprise.