Bachelor of Medical Science - Molecular Biology

University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)

The Bachelor of Medical Science incorporates several scientific disciplines to explore how the human body functions and responds to disease and drug treatments. You can choose to specialise with a range of optional majors and set yourself up for a career in immunology, neuroscience, biomedical research or graduate medical or paramedical qualifications. If you're fascinated by how the human body works and want to play a role in advancing healthcare, the Bachelor of Medical Science at UNSW is a strong first step. This degree explores the science behind human biology, disease and drug treatments, combining core disciplines like physiology, pathology, pharmacology and genetics.

Across three years of full-time study, you’ll uncover how our bodies develop, defend against disease and respond to medical interventions. You’ll gain hands-on experience in cutting-edge labs and learn from leading researchers in medical science. Flexible study options allow you to tailor your medical science degree to your interests, with majors in neuroscience, microbiology, immunology and more.

Recent advances in Molecular Cellular Biology, especially the continuing development of recombinant DNA technology, have revolutionised our understanding of the structure, function and regulation of individual genes. These advances have opened up the exciting field of Molecular Biology, one of the most rapid growth areas in biology. This marriage of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Cell Biology provides an exciting new approach for the study of all living organisms, including the human. Molecular Biology therefore represents fundamental components of biological and medical science and they will have increasingly important roles to play in many aspects of modern medicine, genetics, evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, biotechnology and genomics.