What will I learn?
### **Why choose this course at Sussex?*** **Build specialist skills in your integrated Masters year to open doors inside and outside of science, from biotechnology to research.*** **Gain hands-on practical lab experience from Year 1 alongside teaching based on the latest research, with leading biochemists and chemists.*** **Explore the mechanisms of life and advance your technical, analytical and scientific communication skills while developing an individual research project.**What are the mechanisms of life?Studying Biochemistry at Sussex, you’ll explore this question. Taught by leading biochemists and chemists, you’ll:* study life at the molecular scale* explore the chemical processes underpinning the activities of cells and organisms* discover what happens when things go wrong, leading to diseases such as cancer* find out how biochemistry can help us develop new therapeutics.From Year 1, you’ll be in the lab gaining hands-on practical skills, recording, analysing and interpreting data from your experiments. You’ll learn about current theories in the field, communicating complex topics and working as part of a team.The course is informed by the latest research. It’s flexible so you can tailor your degree to your interests and career aspirations. You’ll be inspired by modules in areas such as medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, cell signalling and neuroscience. You’ll be supported by a friendly community of scientists in the School of Life Sciences. Our student mentoring programme can also provide you with academic support should you need it.When you graduate, you’ll have skills in:* purifying and analysing key biomolecules such as nucleic acids and enzymes* exploring genomics data* carrying out your own research project.With such skills, a variety of careers are open to you, in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries, or within forensics. Your data-handling and analytical skills mean you could develop a career both inside and outside of science.And in addition, in your integrated Masters year, you gain a strong theoretical and practical foundation for a career in – or related to – research. You’ll spend a semester working on an individual research project in one of our Biochemistry research teams. In this year, you’ll develop advanced skills in technical, analytical and scientific communication skills.Our courses adapt to the latest demands of the working world and are informed by our Employer Advisory Panel of key organisations which hire our graduates. Our employability strand develops research skills, professional competencies, and includes dedicated sessions with our Careers and Entrepreneurship Team to help you bolster your CV, train for interviews, map out career trajectories, and more.**Location**Nestled in the South Downs National Park, close to the sea and Brighton’s vibrant cultural scene, our campus offers a warm and welcoming home. Situated just an hour from London and 30 minutes from Gatwick Airport, Brighton offers the best of both worlds. Encouraging curiosity, creativity and connection, it combines the best of city life with easy access to the countryside, the UK’s capital and the wider world beyond.
