BSc (Hons) Pharmacology Bachelor's degree at the University of Leeds

You'll be provided with the opportunity to address a current human health-related challenge in a facilitated team-based environment. You'll develop the core skills necessary to tackle challenges which may cover topics such as the prevention and treatment of disease or healthy ageing.

This module covers essential skills for scientific research in Pharmacology, Biomedical Science, and Neuroscience. It includes practical application of these skills in a clinical setting, laboratory and out in the field, as well as skills that support research design, hypothesis testing, scientific writing and data analysis.

You'll be introduced to the core concepts underpinning structure and function of human body systems, with an emphasis on how systems are structured, operate and interact. You'll also discover how the environment, exercise and disease can disturb these core systems, and the underpinning physiology.

You'll learn about the fundamental processes of life, identifying the key concepts that underpin the biological processes in all living organisms, from bacteria to mammals. On completion, you'll have a comprehensive grounding in the molecular basis of life from the atomic scale up to cells.

This module will introduce you to the foundational neuroscience concepts of structure and function, and how systems level function emerges. These concepts will be explained using examples drawn from across the human nervous system in health and disease, and from the experimental approaches used in neuroscience research. Introductory Concepts in Pharmacology will introduce students to the foundational concepts underpinning pharmacology: pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, clinical pharmacology, a

You'll develop your experimental, technical and computational skills. Working in teams, you'll plan and carry out a range of practical activities, including laboratory-based experimental projects and computational work. You'll explore principles of experimental design hypothesis testing and develop more advanced skills in data evaluation using statistical methods.

This module introduces advanced concepts underpinning the study of pharmacology. This will include the study of principles of molecular pharmacology and understanding of the drug discovery process. Aspects of cardiac, circulatory and respiratory pharmacology will be covered. You'll also study neurotransmission and mechanism of action of drugs targeting the nervous system.

You'll build subject specialist knowledge by choosing concept units that most interest you. This module builds on Year 1 and prepares you for specialist topic units in Year 3. Units may include, for example, the neuropharmacological basis of disease or chemotherapy.

Aligned with key UN sustainability goals, you'll build skills in knowledge application, analysis and scientific data presentation. Working as a team you'll research and create biomedical solutions to a global grand challenge, developing key academic and professional skills. This includes the critical analysis of research papers, communication, team-working, planning, organisation, and negotiation.

You'll attend a series of compulsory and optional units designed to provide scaffolding and support for your capstone research experience. This will develop and utilise your research and employability skills needed for the capstone project and for the workplace.

You'll design and undertake, either individually or as part of a team, an extended enquiry-based project in an area or topic relevant to the biomedical sciences. This project could be one of many formats and will allow you to apply your new knowledge and employability skills.