The Pharmaceutical Science and Medicinal Chemistry programme will provide you with training in pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, drug synthesis, and methods to identify potential drug targets and drug candidates, and methods, to assess the biological activities of drug compounds. The MSc in Pharmaceutical Science and Medicinal Chemistry is your opportunity to specialise in this fascinating and vitally important field that focuses on the biochemistry, pharmacology, design, analysis and delivery of pharmaceutical substances, including the development of safe and effective drugs. Working in our state-of-the-art laboratories and taught by academic staff who are active in research, you will enjoy access to a broad range of scientific instrumentation including: 400 MHz, 500 MHz, solid-state and benchtop NMR spectrometers, single crystal and powder X-ray diffractometers, a high resolution inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer, GC-MS and linear ion trap LC-mass spectrometers, ion mobility spectrometers, gas and liquid chromatographs and tunable nanopore sensors. You will also benefit from our new £17 million STEMLab, offering the most advanced and up-to-date laboratories for students across a range of disciplines and further investment in laboratory space scheduled to open in 2018. There is a Research Training Project, which is based either on placement in industry or with a research group in the Chemistry Department. The projects commence in May and continue through until September. This programme also offers a PGDip and PGCert courses. The Pharmaceutical Science and Medicinal Chemistry MSc provide training which is highly relevant to working in drug design and development in the pharmaceutical industry, the wider chemical industry and in other fields.