Precision medicine MSc

Our MSc in Precision Medicine introduces the research tools and technologies that underpin precision and stratified medicine.

Precision medicine aims to tailor prevention, diagnosis and treatment using differences in genes, environment and lifestyle. Rapid advances in disease biology and drug research are creating new opportunities to investigate how these differences may inform future therapies and diagnostics. The challenge is that there are not enough scientists who can turn these discoveries into real clinical benefit. The aim of the MSc in Precision Medicine is to train the next generation of scientists to translate biological insights into tomorrow's therapies and diagnostic tools.

This is a research-focused MSc. You will learn the omics technologies and research methods used to investigate precision and stratified medicine, and complete a supervised 35-week research programme. It does not include clinical skills training or a clinical placement, and does not qualify you for clinical practice. For intercalating medical students, it is a research MSc that complements your medical training.

What you will learn

Our teaching integrates different omic technologies to enable you to undertake precision medicine research. You will learn:

* Foundations of precision/stratified medicine and the clinical impact of individual molecular and lifestyle differences.

* Foundations in multidisciplinary molecular profiling technologies, including genetics, genomics, proteomics and metabolomics and their application to precision and stratified medicine.

Your research will consist of a 35-week research project hosted in University labs, the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, or a Greater Manchester teaching hospital-based research group.

Example project methods include:

* gene expression profiling

* proteomics

* stem cell research

* tissue culture

* pharmacogenetics.

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Past project disease areas have included:

* cancer

* cardiovascular disease

* infectious diseases

* neurological disease

* respiratory disease

* stroke

* diabetes.

Completing our course may open up a route into PhD research. You may also pursue a career in academia or the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries, or, if you're already medically qualified, as a clinical academic

PhD with integrated master's

If you're planning to undertake a PhD after your master's, our Integrated PhD programme will enable you to combine your postgraduate taught course with a related PhD project in biology, medicine or health. The Integrated PhD requires a separate application and full funding for both the master’s and PhD; check the programme page for current eligibility and funding requirements.