Where could Pharmacology and Innovative Therapeutics at Queen Mary take you?

The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries have identified Pharmacology – the study of medicines – as a major skills gap. By studying our Pharmacology and Innovative Therapeutics BSc, you’ll be well placed to meet the shortfall.

Graduates of our Pharmacology and Innovative Therapeutics course commonly go into the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, medicines regulation, or research and academia. Others transfer the skills they have gained into areas as diverse as media, technology and management.

A degree in Pharmacology also provides an ideal foundation for studying Medicine or Dentistry, as you will have studied a wide range of biomedical subjects and developed an in-depth knowledge of medicines. As such, many of our graduates go on to qualify in these fields.

Top graduates of this programme can apply for sponsored doctoral training at the William Harvey Research Institute at Barts, which is the UK’s largest pharmacology research institute and the recipient of a ‘UK Pharmacology on the Map’ award.

Wherever your next steps take you, you’ll be fantastically placed with a variety of sought-after skills and knowledge. The average starting salary for our graduates within six months of graduation is £26,924 -Thats over £3,000 more than the national average (HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2017/18).