Pharmacology with Study in Industry

About this course

Pharmacology is the science of drugs: how they are discovered, how they work in the body, how they produce both their intended effects and their side effects, and how they are developed from initial compounds into medicines that can be prescribed safely. It is a discipline that draws on biochemistry, physiology, cell biology and chemistry, and it sits at the centre of one of the world's most important and economically significant industries. Almost every drug on the market exists because pharmacologists understood how a molecule could interact with a biological target to produce a therapeutic effect. At the University of Bristol, this four-year BSc degree is similar in its academic content to the standard pharmacology programme but includes a third year spent in industry, either in a pharmaceutical company, a biotechnology firm, a research organisation or a related sector. This period o

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 80% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 40% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Science, engineering and technology associate professionals · 25% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Natural and social science professionals · 5% of graduatescards →

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