Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry

Course Overview

Build your appreciation of the chemical sciences and the drug development process in this four-year course.

Designed to prepare you for a career in the pharmaceutical industry or biomedical research, this course will help you develop an interconnected understanding of core chemistry topics.

You'll deepen your knowledge of key topics relating to inorganic, organic, physical, analytical, synthetic, and computational chemistry. You'll also focus on the identification, development, and production of new drugs.

Extensive laboratory-based work will help develop your practical skills. You'll learn to synthesize chemicals and study chemical systems and build expertise in experimental measurements and computational models.

As the course develops, you'll study strategies for targeting diseases and work with complex portfolios of data. This includes opportunities to specialize across a series of advanced topics in your third and fourth years.

Part of your studies will see you analyze emergent ‘industry 4.0’ approaches and technologies such as rapid prototyping, biohacking, and machine learning. 

Your study reaches the Master's level in your final year, where your work will culminate with a substantial research project.

Teaching is primarily delivered at our South Kensington campus, as well as the state-of-the-art Molecular Sciences Research Hub in White City.