MSci
Pharmaceutical Science with Business Management MSci
Pharmaceutical Science with Business Management

Module Overview

This module will aim to integrate the process of drug discovery and target selection in relation to therapeutic area and how drugs are formulated and delivered to the target. Learning will be in the context of examples of drugs, from discovery to their registration or attrition.

Module Overview

This module aims to integrate the process of drug development in relation to the way in which a dosage forms are formulated and delivered to the target. Learning will be in the context of examples of dosage form, drug delivery route and underlying formulation, particle design, physical chemistry, and colloid science.

Module Overview

This module is concerned with the study of the mechanisms by which drugs interact with biochemical, cellular and physiological systems. The module aims to (1) Give an introduction to the key principles of pharmacology; (2) Provide a detailed knowledge of the mechanisms of actions of selected drug; (3) Develop a critical appreciation of the importance and relevance of pharmacology in the treatment of diseases; and (4) Understand the principles of toxicology and drug overdose.

Module Overview

This module provides an overview of the cellular and molecular basis of the immune response in both health and disease. This module will discuss the structure, function and complex mechanisms of host defence by B- and T-Cells and how our immune system are educated to recognise self vs non-self. We will also evaluate the role of inflammatory mediators, soluble effectors and cellular cytotoxicity in inflammation and immunity and appreciate techniques used to screen for these. The module will then finish by discussing how these system impact upon transplantation, autoimmunity, allergy and immunodeficiency and development of new therapies.

Module Overview

The module provides an overview of medical microbiology including bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic infections both through study of the biology of specific microorganisms and the human diseases they cause. The module considers the transmission, including nosocomial infections and the detection of pathogens, the module also considers the burden, epidemiology, control and treatment of infectious diseases.

Module Overview

Pharmaceutical Science is a multidisciplinary programme with many different sciences and skills pulled into one discipline and this module is designed to bring all learning together from single discipline modules and highlight the relevance to the pharmaceutical industry. This module will advance understanding and application of key skills required to work in the Pharmaceutical Science Industry such as, statistics, mathematics, data handling, ethics and critical analysis. Case studies from the pharmaceutical sector will be used to highlight the key advantages of having an understanding of all the elements of the programme especially these key skills.

Module Overview

The University has a strong commitment to providing academic programmes with high vocational relevance, which is maintained through working links with local, national and international organisations and, in particular, through student work placements.

The Placement Year aims to give students a continuous experience of full-time work within an organisation. It should be a three-way co-operative activity between employer, student and University from which all parties benefit. It is more than simply obtaining work during a gap in study – work placements should enable students to experience at first hand the daily workings of an organisation while setting that experience in the broader context of their studies.

The Placement Year constitutes a work placement during an academic year, funded by full-time paid employment taking place between Level 2 and Level 3. The minimum duration of placement is 39 weeks.

Students wishing to undertake the work placement year must successfully complete the Level 2 of their programme.

All students on the Placement Year as part of their full-time undergraduate study will remain enrolled with the University during the period of placement and receive support. Students originally enrolled on 3 year programmes wishing to transfer to the 4 year programme must do so before the start of their placement, should gain the consent of their funders, where appropriate, and advise the University of their intention before the September enrolment.

Module Overview

The School believes that an option to study overseas is a valuable educational opportunity for our students. Provision of this option supports the educational aims of the School of Pharmacy and enhances the distinctiveness of its degrees at Lincoln. The optional year is intended to:

- enable students to benefit from studying within a cross cultural environment;

- expose students to a wider academic and cultural experience;

- enhance their future employment opportunities;

- by increasing their cultural and professional mobility.

This module is optional for students within the School.

Study Abroad is a year long module which enables students to spend a year studying abroad at one of the University’s approved partner institutions. Eligible students must have completed their second year of study to a satisfactory standard and successfully completed the application process for the year abroad.

During the year spent abroad, students share classes with local students and study on a suite of locally-delivered taught modules which have been approved in advance by the University. Upon their return, as part of the assessment for this modules, students are required to critically reflect upon their experience of living and studying in a different cultural environment and the skills acquired.

Module Overview

This module looks at advanced aspects of pharmacology, aiming to build an understanding of drug-target engagement in relation to therapy, as well as drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics.

Module Overview

This module covers the regulations that surround the pharmaceutical industry, from drug registration to laboratory, clinical, and manufacturing standards

Module Overview

This module explores novel therapies including biologics, nucleic acids, gene therapy, and personalised medicines and dissects their potential use in the future. It will also explore the part genetics can play in the clinical use of these novel medicines and the impact it can have.

Module Overview

Within this module students will explore the challenges that occur around the world within the pharmaceutical field and how the industry is looking to overcome these challenges. Some of the areas that will be covered include: counterfeit medicine, medicine fraud, alternative medicines, natural products, green pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, and transport of medicines.

Module Overview

As technology evolves at a rapid pace, this module aims to cover the essentials of cutting edge methods for analysis and delivery and taking into account the problems and issues surrounding manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Module Overview

In this module students have the opportunity to undertake an independent programme of research under supervision from a member of staff. It provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate original and critical thought, as well as to build practical and project-management skills.

A wide range of subject expertise exists within the School, and students are expected to select a project that is relevant to their programme of study. Under the guidance of a supervisor, students can review the literature, identify a hypothesis or hypotheses, and design a programme of research to test their hypotheses. They will be expected to manage the project, including obtaining relevant ethical approval and conducting a risk assessment. They will collect and analyse data, recording their activities in a lab notebook. Projects can be conducted in the laboratory or field, as appropriate for their field of study, use mathematical modelling or use pre-collected data to test hypotheses via meta-analysis.

Students may work individually or in groups addressing similar questions, but must write up individually. The project will be written up in the format of a scientific paper following closely the style of a key journal relevant to their area of study, or as a thesis.

Module Overview

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the introduction of new technologies, products, infrastructures, or systems is essential yet increasingly complex. This complexity arises from conflicting stakeholder requirements, irreversible investments, operational constraints and associated risks. Consequently, effective project management has become crucial for businesses to respond flexibly and swiftly to customer demands. Managers now need project competence and a systems-oriented management style that transcends traditional functional roles throughout the project lifecycle. Project management is thus a vital management philosophy for navigating dynamic business environments and achieving innovative or unprecedented outcomes.

This module aims to equip students with the skills to deliver change or transformation through effective project management. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of tools and techniques required for project initiation, planning, execution, control and termination. Through diverse teaching methods, students will learn to plan and execute projects efficiently and effectively, considering the broader business context in which they operate.

Module Overview

This module aims to provide you with an understanding of how to create and sustain high-performing teams. Through a review of existing and emerging theories and models of leadership, team formation, motivation, communication, power, and diversity, you can gain theoretically sound knowledge of team behaviour and effectiveness. A variety of engaging practical exercises seek to enable you to develop you skills as an effective and empathetic team leader and valuable team member.

Module Overview

Biological assays are one of the most important tools in preclinical research. They enable researchers to identify early in the drug discovery and development pipeline whether a test compound or biologic has the desired effect. This module has been specifically designed for you to develop a working knowledge of high throughput bioassays commonly used by the pharmaceutical industry. This will be achieved through a series of lectures, seminars, workshops, and practicals provided by both academics and industrial scientists with assay specific expertise. The module will culminate with you developing your own assay and a trip to a pharmaceutical company to see high-throughput assays work in practice.

Module Overview

This module is designed to allow students to explore the processes of developing a medicine and the challenges posed by this process. Students will consider how the drug can be formulated, manufactured and delivered to the target site with the correct dosage. Students will consider the differences in processes between small molecule and biologic drugs and how the challenges in each case can be potentially solved.

Module Overview

Within this module, students will explore the planning, management and analysis of the pre-clinical and clinical testing process of drug development. Students will investigate the best approaches for analysing novel pharmaceuticals and their safety, and how they are examined within the human body. Students will evaluate current approaches and discuss possible improvements or adaptions to enhance the process, reduce animal testing by use of the 3 'R's

Module Overview

The MSci Pharmaceutical Science module placements are designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop their professional skills by spending time within a relevant workplace. Students will have the opportunity to work with an industrial partner on a project and gain experience in the pharmaceutical industry. This module will allow students to continue building contacts within the industry in which they wish to work.

Module Overview

This module will aim to integrate the process of drug discovery and target selection in relation to therapeutic area and how drugs are formulated and delivered to the target. Learning will be in the context of examples of drugs, from discovery to their registration or attrition.

Module Overview

This module aims to integrate the process of drug development in relation to the way in which a dosage forms are formulated and delivered to the target. Learning will be in the context of examples of dosage form, drug delivery route and underlying formulation, particle design, physical chemistry, and colloid science.

Module Overview

This module is concerned with the study of the mechanisms by which drugs interact with biochemical, cellular and physiological systems. The module aims to (1) Give an introduction to the key principles of pharmacology; (2) Provide a detailed knowledge of the mechanisms of actions of selected drug; (3) Develop a critical appreciation of the importance and relevance of pharmacology in the treatment of diseases; and (4) Understand the principles of toxicology and drug overdose.

Module Overview

This module provides an overview of the cellular and molecular basis of the immune response in both health and disease. This module will discuss the structure, function and complex mechanisms of host defence by B- and T-Cells and how our immune system are educated to recognise self vs non-self. We will also evaluate the role of inflammatory mediators, soluble effectors and cellular cytotoxicity in inflammation and immunity and appreciate techniques used to screen for these. The module will then finish by discussing how these system impact upon transplantation, autoimmunity, allergy and immunodeficiency and development of new therapies.

Module Overview

The module provides an overview of medical microbiology including bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic infections both through study of the biology of specific microorganisms and the human diseases they cause. The module considers the transmission, including nosocomial infections and the detection of pathogens, the module also considers the burden, epidemiology, control and treatment of infectious diseases.

Module Overview

Pharmaceutical Science is a multidisciplinary programme with many different sciences and skills pulled into one discipline and this module is designed to bring all learning together from single discipline modules and highlight the relevance to the pharmaceutical industry. This module will advance understanding and application of key skills required to work in the Pharmaceutical Science Industry such as, statistics, mathematics, data handling, ethics and critical analysis. Case studies from the pharmaceutical sector will be used to highlight the key advantages of having an understanding of all the elements of the programme especially these key skills.

Module Overview

The University has a strong commitment to providing academic programmes with high vocational relevance, which is maintained through working links with local, national and international organisations and, in particular, through student work placements.

The Placement Year aims to give students a continuous experience of full-time work within an organisation. It should be a three-way co-operative activity between employer, student and University from which all parties benefit. It is more than simply obtaining work during a gap in study – work placements should enable students to experience at first hand the daily workings of an organisation while setting that experience in the broader context of their studies.

The Placement Year constitutes a work placement during an academic year, funded by full-time paid employment taking place between Level 2 and Level 3. The minimum duration of placement is 39 weeks.

Students wishing to undertake the work placement year must successfully complete the Level 2 of their programme.

All students on the Placement Year as part of their full-time undergraduate study will remain enrolled with the University during the period of placement and receive support. Students originally enrolled on 3 year programmes wishing to transfer to the 4 year programme must do so before the start of their placement, should gain the consent of their funders, where appropriate, and advise the University of their intention before the September enrolment.

Module Overview

The School believes that an option to study overseas is a valuable educational opportunity for our students. Provision of this option supports the educational aims of the School of Pharmacy and enhances the distinctiveness of its degrees at Lincoln. The optional year is intended to:

- enable students to benefit from studying within a cross cultural environment;

- expose students to a wider academic and cultural experience;

- enhance their future employment opportunities;

- by increasing their cultural and professional mobility.

This module is optional for students within the School.

Study Abroad is a year long module which enables students to spend a year studying abroad at one of the University’s approved partner institutions. Eligible students must have completed their second year of study to a satisfactory standard and successfully completed the application process for the year abroad.

During the year spent abroad, students share classes with local students and study on a suite of locally-delivered taught modules which have been approved in advance by the University. Upon their return, as part of the assessment for this modules, students are required to critically reflect upon their experience of living and studying in a different cultural environment and the skills acquired.

Module Overview

This module looks at advanced aspects of pharmacology, aiming to build an understanding of drug-target engagement in relation to therapy, as well as drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics.

Module Overview

This module covers the regulations that surround the pharmaceutical industry, from drug registration to laboratory, clinical, and manufacturing standards

Module Overview

This module explores novel therapies including biologics, nucleic acids, gene therapy, and personalised medicines and dissects their potential use in the future. It will also explore the part genetics can play in the clinical use of these novel medicines and the impact it can have.

Module Overview

Within this module students will explore the challenges that occur around the world within the pharmaceutical field and how the industry is looking to overcome these challenges. Some of the areas that will be covered include: counterfeit medicine, medicine fraud, alternative medicines, natural products, green pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, and transport of medicines.

Module Overview

As technology evolves at a rapid pace, this module aims to cover the essentials of cutting edge methods for analysis and delivery and taking into account the problems and issues surrounding manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Module Overview

In this module students have the opportunity to undertake an independent programme of research under supervision from a member of staff. It provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate original and critical thought, as well as to build practical and project-management skills.

A wide range of subject expertise exists within the School, and students are expected to select a project that is relevant to their programme of study. Under the guidance of a supervisor, students can review the literature, identify a hypothesis or hypotheses, and design a programme of research to test their hypotheses. They will be expected to manage the project, including obtaining relevant ethical approval and conducting a risk assessment. They will collect and analyse data, recording their activities in a lab notebook. Projects can be conducted in the laboratory or field, as appropriate for their field of study, use mathematical modelling or use pre-collected data to test hypotheses via meta-analysis.

Students may work individually or in groups addressing similar questions, but must write up individually. The project will be written up in the format of a scientific paper following closely the style of a key journal relevant to their area of study, or as a thesis.

Module Overview

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the introduction of new technologies, products, infrastructures, or systems is essential yet increasingly complex. This complexity arises from conflicting stakeholder requirements, irreversible investments, operational constraints and associated risks. Consequently, effective project management has become crucial for businesses to respond flexibly and swiftly to customer demands. Managers now need project competence and a systems-oriented management style that transcends traditional functional roles throughout the project lifecycle. Project management is thus a vital management philosophy for navigating dynamic business environments and achieving innovative or unprecedented outcomes.

This module aims to equip students with the skills to deliver change or transformation through effective project management. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of tools and techniques required for project initiation, planning, execution, control and termination. Through diverse teaching methods, students will learn to plan and execute projects efficiently and effectively, considering the broader business context in which they operate.

Module Overview

This module aims to provide you with an understanding of how to create and sustain high-performing teams. Through a review of existing and emerging theories and models of leadership, team formation, motivation, communication, power, and diversity, you can gain theoretically sound knowledge of team behaviour and effectiveness. A variety of engaging practical exercises seek to enable you to develop you skills as an effective and empathetic team leader and valuable team member.

Module Overview

Biological assays are one of the most important tools in preclinical research. They enable researchers to identify early in the drug discovery and development pipeline whether a test compound or biologic has the desired effect. This module has been specifically designed for you to develop a working knowledge of high throughput bioassays commonly used by the pharmaceutical industry. This will be achieved through a series of lectures, seminars, workshops, and practicals provided by both academics and industrial scientists with assay specific expertise. The module will culminate with you developing your own assay and a trip to a pharmaceutical company to see high-throughput assays work in practice.

Module Overview

This module is designed to allow students to explore the processes of developing a medicine and the challenges posed by this process. Students will consider how the drug can be formulated, manufactured and delivered to the target site with the correct dosage. Students will consider the differences in processes between small molecule and biologic drugs and how the challenges in each case can be potentially solved.

Module Overview

Within this module, students will explore the planning, management and analysis of the pre-clinical and clinical testing process of drug development. Students will investigate the best approaches for analysing novel pharmaceuticals and their safety, and how they are examined within the human body. Students will evaluate current approaches and discuss possible improvements or adaptions to enhance the process, reduce animal testing by use of the 3 'R's

Module Overview

The MSci Pharmaceutical Science module placements are designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop their professional skills by spending time within a relevant workplace. Students will have the opportunity to work with an industrial partner on a project and gain experience in the pharmaceutical industry. This module will allow students to continue building contacts within the industry in which they wish to work.