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Warwick is a unique, and uniquely successful, institution among United Kingdom universities. Despite its relative youth it is now one of the UK’s leading universities, with an acknowledged reputation for excellence in research and teaching, for innovation and for links with business and industry. The University is ranked 4th in 'The Guardian University Guide' and 7th overall in the latest Research Assessment Exercise.
Biological Sciences Undergraduate Laboratory class.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences is an acknowledged leader in biomedical education and research. We offer degrees of the highest quality at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, together with an exciting research environment that is among the very best in the UK. The Department specialises in fundamental and applied research with opportunities to carry out multidisciplinary research with a range of other centres of excellence at Warwick, for example Systems Biology and Warwick Medical School.
Departmental research interests include Biology in a changing climate, Biophysics, Cell Signalling, Physiological Mechanisms, Genes and Development, Membranes and Transport, Microbiology, Neurosciences, Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Populations and Disease, Structural Biology, Virology and Yeast Cell Biology.
Biological Sciences and imaging suite.
MSc Biotechnology, Bioprocessing and Business Management
The bioprocessing and biotechnology industries are a major component of global industrialised economies with impact in medicine, food manufacturing and the fabrication and testing of biopharmaceutical products. Revolutionary new products and services have emerged and management of this change requires a new calibre of technical specialist; a person capable of analysing and resolving problems in a timely and effective manner. Ideally this specialist will have business acumen and a knowledge base that integrates a broad spectrum of relevant expertise. The innovative and interdisciplinary MSc in Biotechnology, Bioprocessing and Business management has been designed to equip students with the necessary tools and expertise to become such a person, offering key business information and industrially-relevant knowledge.
Biological Sciences’ greenhouse.
The MSc is aimed at scientists, engineers and business graduates (with an interest in science) with the view to producing the biotechnology and bioprocessing business managers of the future through a truly multidisciplinary course.
Teaching is based around eight core modules, titles include ‘Genetic and molecular engineering’, ‘Bioproduct plant design and economic analysis’, ‘Bioproduct development and commercialisation’, ‘Business strategy’ and ‘Marketing management’. These core modules are supported by three additional elective modules and a project dissertation.
Lecturers come from Biological Sciences, industry and Warwick Business School, one of Europe’s leading business schools with acknowledged excellence and high rankings in teaching and research. Teaching is via interactive lectures and small group interactive workshops, and both individual and team learning are used for case study analysis.
The MSc began in 2008 with an initial intake of 16 students. It is now beginning to gain a solid reputation and numbers for 2009/10 have increased to 63. We have students from all over the world, but particularly from India and China.
More information on the MSc can be found at http://go.warwick.ac.uk/mscbiomanagement. Please feel free to contact Dr Crawford Dow (course director) at c.s.dow@warwick.ac.uk or Dr Charlotte Moonan/Dr Steve Hicks (taught postgraduate managers) at Charlotte.Moonan@warwick.ac.uk / s.j.hicks@warwick.ac.uk for further information.
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