BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical Science Bachelor's degree at East London

Gain essential skills to boost your career prospects, particularly for roles connected to health and wellbeing fields. You'll engage with digital platforms, industry-led workshops, and real-world tasks to build confidence in communication, research, and digital professionalism. Throughout, you'll map your career aspirations, develop a strong online presence, and learn to identify the skills employers seek.

Prepare for success in higher education by developing the academic, personal, and professional skills needed for your studies and beyond. You'll learn effective time management, research strategies, digital proficiency, and academic writing techniques, with a strong focus on reflective learning and goal setting.

Practical maths skills are essential across health and education careers. You'll explore statistics, probability, and basic financial numeracy, learning how to apply them to real workplace scenarios. Workshops, tutorials, and digital practice sessions will build your ability to analyse data accurately and confidently.

Essential communication skills underpin success at university and beyond. This module focuses on developing your oral, written, and interpersonal abilities, preparing you to adapt your communication style to different academic and professional contexts.

Solid foundations in chemistry and biology underpin success in biosciences. You'll study atomic structures, bonding, organic molecules, cell biology, genetics, metabolism, and physiological systems, combining theoretical knowledge with practical laboratory experience.

This module will introduce you to the different approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in a Higher Education setting focusing on core skills required for the bioscience and chemistry programmes. This will support you in your 'transition' from school, college or the work place towards degree level study.

The module aims to enable you to develop a knowledge and understanding of the synthesis, reaction, theoretical and practical techniques underpinning the fundamentals of organic chemistry. You will also develop an understanding of chemical chirality and its clinical significance in pharmaceuticals and other industrial applications.

Within this module you will develop a working knowledge, definitions concepts and practical skills that support the understanding of the structure and function of the dynamic cell. This includes topics in cell architecture, organelles, cell cycle, division, intra and extracellular signalling events, differentiation and specialisation of cells and the evolution of cell structures.

This module will enable you to consolidate your competence in specified areas of human anatomy and physiology including the structure, function, neurological and hormonal control of the human body, its component parts and major systems (musculoskeletal, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, renal, urogenital, nervous, endocrine) and their relationship to each other.

This module will give you a working knowledge of the definitions, terms and concepts used in biochemistry and molecular biology, and some of the main processes that occur in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Areas of study will include chemical principles relevant to biological systems, the structure and function of biological molecules (RNA, DNA, proteins etc.), the processes underpinning cellular metabolism and its control.

The module aims to enable you to develop a knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of analytical, mathematical and quantification techniques underpinning all aspects of chemistry.

This module is designed to give you an opportunity to develop professional skills and experience within the workplace. It will also help you to establish a range of professional contacts that have the potential to be useful both for project work and assisting in finding employment after graduation.

This module will provide you with a basic understanding of selected topics in medical microbiology, immunology, epidemiology and disease prevention. In the first part of the module the microbes and the consequences of microbial infection on their hosts will be explored. In the second part, the development, structure and mechanisms of action of the components of the immune system; innate, acquired immunity, immune effector functions and vaccines will be explored.

Within this module you will learn to communicate a body of factual information, and engender an understanding of such knowledge, as it pertains to modern pharmacology. You will cover topics in basic pharmacology, drug targets, neurotransmitters, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, autacoids. You will also develop competencies in a range of practical techniques relating to pharmacology in areas relating to the investigation of drug action and drug selectivity.

Within this module, you will gain an appreciation of dosage forms, their formulations, manufacturing and quality attributes. The module will also introduce you to the various processes required to turn a new chemical substance into a medication that can be used safely and effectively by patients. You will also obtain an in-depth knowledge of the methods that are used in the pharmaceutical industry for the manufacturing of drugs and their quality control.

This module is structured to offer you reflective, integrated components in which different scientific disciplines and specialities belonging to your and other programmes of study (such as pathobiology, clinical laboratory practice, disease treatment, synthetic chemistry, drug design and manufacture, etc.) are discussed in a system-led approach to developing professional competencies required in carrying out independent laboratory work in a professional setting.

This module will introduce you to the drug discovery and development process. You will become familiar with how research within academia and the pharmaceutical industry contributes to this multidisciplinary process. You will also be introduced to the regulatory processes involved in testing, licensing, marketing and surveillance of existing and new drugs.

The module aims to enable you to develop expertise in implementing the drug synthesis, reaction, and theoretical and practical techniques underpinning the core principles of organic chemistry. This will include the rationale for various protecting group strategies and consolidating disconnection approaches in the context of drug synthesis.

This module is designed to give you an opportunity to develop professional skills and experience within the workplace. It will also help you to establish a range of professional contacts that have the potential to be useful both for project work and assisting in finding employment after graduation.

This module is designed to give you an opportunity to develop professional skills and experience within the workplace. It also enables you to apply knowledge and skills in the competent performance of tasks required by a scientist. Furthermore, it helps you to establish a range of professional contacts that have the potential to be useful both for project work and assisting in finding employment after graduation.