The MRes is a research-based Masters degree that offers specialised training in specific areas. It differs from an MSc in that you'll spend more time on a lab-based project, and the final assessment (a thesis) and final award are closer to that for a PhD.
This degree is delivered by the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences and offers a vibrant research environment for postgraduate training.
The taught part of your degree will increase your understanding of general scientific skills such as statistics, ethics and effective communication, while also developing your knowledge in your specific subject through lectures and workshops.
Following the taught elements, you'll move on to work on your project in an active research laboratory with a Principal Investigator and, potentially, with post-doctoral fellows and other postgraduate students.
This is an excellent way to find out about what a career in science is really like.
You'll also develop vital technique and project management skills that will prove highly attractive to future employers.
You will work under the supervision of Dr Fraser J. Scott to investigate an aspect of Science Education Research. This will likely be on a topic involving the overlap of Science and Mathematics education, but the specific topic is open for discussion.
You will work under the supervision of Dr Fraser J. Scott to develop Strathclyde Minor Groove Binders as anti-infective agents. Experimental work will include organic chemistry, but also biochemical (enzyme assays), biophysical (UV-vis, NMR) and biology (in vitro activity) aspects.
The aim of this project is to address the challenge of directly detecting disease biomarker panels in serum featuring target species whose relative concentrations span many orders of magnitude.
Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, Ageing, Machine Learning
Immunology, infection, diabetes, mast cells, autoimmunity, obesity Cellular Basis of Disease
The vision of this PhD project is to establish whether there is a universal mechanism for biological ammonium transport. Beyond the elucidation of a central biological process, this work will have important medical implications, offering a mechanistic explanation to correlate Rh malfunction and associated diseases and
The student will have the opportunity to learn a wide range of multidisciplinary techniques: synthesis and characterization of the nanomedicines, cell culture, in vitro analysis techniques (cytotoxicity assay, confocal microscopy) and in vivo analysis
Cellular basis of disease, membrane trafficking
Molecular Biology Microbiology Genomics Antibiotic Resistance Gene Regulation Transcription Chemical Biology Medicinal Chemistry
CLXL12, cancer, Nuclear factor kappa B, signalling, molecular. Cellular Basis of disease/Drug discovery
Advanced manufacturing (Daniel Markl), Drug Delivery (Health and Wellbeing – Z Rattray)
Leishmaniasis is a serious health threat. Current there is no clinical vaccine. This project will build on pervious studies to develop a recombinant protein vaccine to protects against leishmaniasis.
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cell Biology
Immunology, immunopharmacology inflammatory/ metabolic cell pathology
Secondary metabolomics; marine natural products; antibiotics; anti-cancer drugs; NMR; MS; drug discovery; multivariate analysis
Microbiology and Industrial Biotechnology; Streptomyces; Antimicrobial resistance; natural product biosynthesis
Marine microbial chemistry Actinomycetes Marine natural products Specialized metabolism Comparative metabolomics Antibiotic Discovery
Drug utilisation research; adherence; clinical effectiveness; Antimicrobial Resistance; antimicrobial stewardship; Health Service Research
Drug development; Drug discovery; chiral synthesis, organic synthesis, decracemisation by crystallisation, Veidma Ripening, medicinal chemistry, single crystal X-ray crystallography, XRPD, HPLC, pharmaceutical analysis
Neuroscience, immunology, multiple sclerosis
Materials & Manufacture. High-pressure; co-crystals; polymorphism, diffraction, spectroscopy.
Helminth, parasite, drug therapy Cellular Basis of Disease
Inflammation, microbiome, helminths, mast cells, immunology, cytokines, costimulation Cellular Basis of Disease
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cell Biology
Advanced manufacturing (Y Perrie); Drug Delivery (Health and Wellbeing – Y Perrie, Z Rattray); Particle Characterization (Measurement and Enabling Technologies, Z Rattray)
Advanced manufacturing (D Markl), Drug Delivery (Health and Wellbeing – Z Rattray)
Cellular Basis of Disease (Health and Wellbeing- Z and N Rattray), Metabolomics (Health and Wellbeing, Measurement and enabling sciences- N Rattray), Drug Delivery (Health and Wellbeing – Z Rattray)
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cell Biology
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Diabetes Cell Biology
Materials & Manufacture. High-pressure; co-crystals; polymorphism, diffraction, spectroscopy
Leishmaniasis is a serious health threat. We have preliminary data to show that light can have anti-leishmanial activity and the aim of this project is to design a medicinal device that can be used to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Leishmaniasis is a serious health threat. Diagnosis can be completed using different techniques but the gold standard is identifying parasites in stained samples from infected individuals. In this project we will look at using machine learning in parasite diagnosis
There are 1.3 million new cases of lung cancer per year world-wide and it has one of the lowest survival rates. In this project we will reformulate an existing cancer drug into a drug delivery system to target the drug to the cancer cells.
Neuroscience immunology neurodegenerative diseases
Protein kinase, Leishmania, signal transduction, protein-protein interaction. Cellular Basis of Disease/Cancer and Inflammatory Disease
Cellular Basis of Disease: Neurodegeneration, Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics
Drug and stem cell delivery using biopolymers
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cell Biology
Neuroscience & Mental Health MKP-2, synaptic vesicles, neurotransmitter, synaptic transmission
Neuroscience & Mental Health proteinase-activated receptor 2, Alzheimer’s disease, β-amyloid cytokines, major depressive disorder, treatment-resistant depression
Research group: Neuroscience & Mental Health Key words: proteinase-activated receptor 2, inflammation, cytokines, major depressive disorder, treatment-resistant depression.
The project will explore novel strategies to study cardiac cellular metabolism using isolated primary adult cardiac cells and the use of spheroids.
CLXL12, cancer, Nuclear factor kappa B, signalling, molecular. Cellular Basis of disease/Drug discovery
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Cardiovascular physiology and biology, pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular function, right coronary artery perfusion, right ventricular ischemia
Cardiovascular disease Diabetes Obesity Membrane transport Membrane trafficking
Parasitic worm; immunomodulation; inflammation; anti-inflammatory drug development
You can study an MRes in the following areas:
You'll spend around two-thirds of your time undertaking a single laboratory-based research project, supervised by an academic member of staff.
In addition, you'll take taught classes delivered through lectures, workshops and practical labs in three areas:
To support the chosen research project, you'll select advanced-level taught courses in your specialisation.
The Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences is a major research centre in Scotland and is amongst the UK's top Schools of Pharmacy. We're located in a new building with state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities.
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All fees quoted are per academic year unless otherwise stated.
Entrants may be subject to a small fee during the writing up period.
| Scotland | TBC (2020/21: £4,407) |
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| England, Wales & Northern Ireland | TBC (2020/21: £4,407) |
| International | £20,650 |
| Funding | Find out about funding opportunities through our scholarship search. |
| Postgraduate research opportunities | Search for all funded and non-funded postgraduate research opportunities. |
Please note: the fees shown are annual and may be subject to an increase each year.
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How to applyIf you're applying for an MRes degree, simply complete the online application form and indicate you intend to study a 'Masters by Research in Biomedical Sciences', along with your named specialism.
You're not required to submit a detailed research proposal at this stage.
You should normally have a second-class Honours degree in a biology-related subject and English language proficiency at IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
We offer a range of English language course for students who wish to improve their English. This is an excellent way to not only improve your English but to get to know Glasgow and the University and make new friends. Module 3 is free of charge to all applicants and we strongly recommend all international students to take advantage of this free course.
We also offer comprehensive English Language presessional and Foundation courses for students whose IELTS scores are below 6.5 Go to our English Language Teaching section for full details.
