Medicinal Chemistry with a Year in Industry

Medicinal chemists have been responsible for many of our modern medicines. Their central contribution to developing new therapeutic agents against microbial infections, cancer and heart disease has helped to significantly increase worldwide life-expectancy. They are experts - with extensive knowledge of molecular design, drug synthesis and the biological function of drugs.

On our Medicinal Chemistry courses you will get a strong grounding in chemistry with a specialised focus on designing and making drug-like molecules through combining organic chemistry, drug design and synthetic chemistry, which will prepare you for work in pharmaceutical research or industry. You will also gain laboratory skills, drug-development insight, plus problem solving and analytic abilities that open paths to careers in drug discovery, quality control, regulatory affairs or further postgraduate study in chemistry and pharmaceutical science. Four-year MChem degrees and five-year MChem (with a Year in Industry) degrees are available for high-calibre students with the ability and aspiration to practice Medicinal Chemistry at the highest levels.

Students on the Medicinal Chemistry programme at Queen’s receive a multidisciplinary training at the interface of chemistry and biology which covers the core divisions of chemistry as well as biochemistry and drug design. This course is accredited by the RSC. It fulfils the academic requirements for Chartered Chem (CChem).

The course is also accredited by the Institute of Chemistry in Ireland.