Pandemics, drugs and disease treatments. There are many examples of current societal issues where professionals with expertise in medical biology are needed. Our master’s programme equips you with a career in academia or research-intensive industries.

This programme is one of few with a broad approach including the entire pharmaceutical process; from discovery and identification of active substance to development and production of the final drug. Students learn through authentic industrial development scenarios with emphasis on laboratory practice and project-based learning. They have access to excellent lab facilities, key equipment utilised within the pharma industry and industry collaboration opportunities for research. Graduates might start as an organic or analytical chemist, as a biochemist developing new biological pharmaceutical substances, as formulators of new drug products, at positions in the quality assurance field or may conduct further specialised studies as PhD students.

Our goal is to give students leading competences in biomedical research so that they are well prepared for independent work in medical research and development. The programme leads to a Master of Medical Science, with a major in Biomedicine. Teaching takes place in a research environment at the Biomedical Research Centre in Lund and all teachers are also active researchers.

The Master’s programme has a high proportion of scheduled lessons, and the interaction with teaching staff and course assistants is relaxed. The programme is conducted in an international environment and has strong ties with research. All of the teaching staff are researchers, and as a result, the teaching is continuously adapted based on current research. The Department of Biology has several world-leading research teams and conducts both basic researches and applied research. The language of instruction is English.

This is a cross-disciplinary programme with a global perspective. It provides students with evidence-based knowledge and a toolkit for conducting research, policy-making and fieldwork. The faculty has substantial experience from a range of disciplinary and geographical contexts and the diversity of the student body contributes to a stimulating learning environment. As one student expressed it: “The class and teaching are a microcosm of the global context we’ll face in work-life". Alumni are currently employed at a variety of institutions such as national health ministries, UNICEF, the WHO and various NGOs. In addition, many are researchers at top-ranked universities.