Translational Medicine: Interdisciplinary Molecular Medicine (Master of Research)

• More Nobel Prize winners on the current staff of University of Manchester than any other UK university
• University of Manchester ranked 3rd in the UK for Research Power for the number of world-leading or internationally excellent research staff (RAE 2008)
• Extensive (35 week) research placements provide opportunity to conduct ambitious projects - often resulting in published work
• Around 65% of our graduates progress into PhD training or a career in the Pharmaceutical industry, 15% are intercalating medics and approximately 10% pursue an undergraduate medical degree
• Strong and unique focus on genetics, genomics, proteomics and metabolomics biotechnology and data interpretation and their integrated use in systems medicine studies
• Profiles of academic staff who contribute to the course
• Strong links with the Pharmaceutical Industry, and individual modules available for Continuous Professional Development

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What is Translational Medicine, and what do current students think of the MRes?

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• Using silk as a biomaterial for nerve regeneration
• Species variability in metabolism as a translational factor influencing susceptibility to adverse drug reactions in man
• The function of Notch signalling in vascular smooth muscle cell differentiation from mouse embryonic stem cells
• Statins in translational cerebral ischemia: systematic review and meta-analysis of pre-clinical studies
• Parallel gene expression profiling and histological analysis of tumour tissue microarrays
• Metabonomic profiling of tumour-bearing mice
• Research Project Outputs and further research project examples

This Masters of Research, with its extended 35 week research project and broad training in biotechnology for medical healthcare, provides an excellent platform to progress into PhD research, or for a career as a clinical academic. The strong links with AstraZeneca also provide an excellent basis for a career in the Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology Industries.

• More than 50% of our graduates progress into PhD research (within e.g. the Universities of Manchester, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Newcastle, Glasgow, Liverpool, Bristol)
• Around 10% pursue a career in the Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology industry (UK or abroad), often through contacts made on the course
• Approximately 15% are intercalating medics who complete their medical education
• An estimated 10% pursue an undergraduate medical degree