Biotechnology

As a biotechnology-focusedengineer, you'll help to improve the world around us by tackling global issues in bioprocessing, healthcare and medicine. This Biotechnology Msc program is offered at Loughborough University .

Key Facts

• By developing processes to make sustainable products such as biofuels or foods from biological resources, the manufacturing of vaccines and antibiotics, or the creation of medical and environmental technology solutions. This may also include developing new medicines using DNA technology or improving methods of drug delivery in order to improve healthcare for the population.
• ThisBiotechology Msc program fromLoughborough Universityincludes a high proportion of practical work which provides valuable experience for your career. You'll be immersed in our research-intensive culture and will complete your own biotechnology-focused research project where you can work alongside our internationally respected research teams.
• The program will provide access to a broad range of career opportunities where you will play a key role in developing the technologies that will enhance our health and standard of living, such as the development of new bioprocesses and biotechnology based products or biomaterials.
• The biggest employers for Biotechnology graduates is the rapidly expanding biotechnology industry including companies manufacturing diagnostics, healthcare products, pharmaceutical companies producing biomedicines for gene therapy and vaccines, consumer care product manufacturers (such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble), environmental engineering companies and the food sector.

Courses include:

• Lab Techniques for Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering
• Research Methods
• Drug Delivery and Targeting

• Biomedical Analytical Techologies

• Advanced Biochemical Engineering