Dr John Curnow introduces the new Immunology and Immunotherapy programme which starts September 2013.
For further information visit www.birmingham.ac,uk/msc-immunology
Duration: 02:18mins
Speaker
Dr John Curnow PhD, Senior Lecturer and Immunologist
Transcript
Hello, my name’s John Curnow, I am in Immunologist, I have a research group here at the University of Birmingham and I’m the programme director for the new MSc in Immunology and Immunotherapy.
The programme is delivered as a mixture of both lectures and small group tutorials of 10 to 15 students. There’s also a substantial research project carried out in one of the laboratories across the campus. Immunology impacts on every area of medicine and we have an enormous potential to control the immune response. Examples include vaccination for infectious disease but also vaccination for cancer.
So why study immunology at Birmingham? Because you will be taught by scientists at the cutting edge of their discipline. These scientists study both the fundamentals of the immune system, but also there are clinical scientists who are carrying out clinical trials in the use of immunotherapy to treat disease. To complement the expertise of the teaching staff we have a fantastic range of cutting edge research laboratories and equipment available to the students, especially when they carry out their research projects. Every student on the programme will carry out a research project of around four months and they will carry these out in these internationally renowned research groups being fully integrated into those research environments.
So when you’ve completed your MSc programme, what will this enable you to do? Well many of our students will go on and study at PhD, either staying at the University of Birmingham or going elsewhere in the UK or the rest of the world. In addition, however, there is of course a very large job market in this multi-billion dollar industry in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology world. Alongside that, some people may decide that they want to move slightly sideways and may go into scientific media or publishing.
We welcome applications from anyone with any biological science or biomedical science degree. If you require any further information, please feel free to contact me by email and I hope to see you in September.
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