Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Entry requirements

We require applicants to hold, or be about to obtain, an Upper Second class Honours degree, or the equivalent qualification gained outside the UK, in a related subject area for entry to a PhD programme. A Lower Second class Honours degree may be considered if applicants also hold a Master's degree with a Merit classification.

Months of entry

January, April, September

Course content

Our PhD/MPhil Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Our areas of research within pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences include:

• development of novel nucleic acid-based diagnostics and therapeutics;
• modelling and simulation of pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interactions and pharmacodynamics in healthy virtual populations;
• modelling and simulation of pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interactions and pharmacodynamics in patient populations;
• analysis of inter-individual variability in drug metabolizing enzyme activity;
• optimal design of early phase clinical trials with new therapies and drug combinations;
• applications of systems biology approach to prediction of drug absorption, distribution and Elimination;
• extrapolation of in vitro data to predict in vivo pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics;
• applications of PKPD in drug development and therapeutics, particularly endocrinology, drug abuse, and paediatric pharmacology;

Information for international students

For applicants whose first language is not English, or if you have not studied recently in the UK, you must provide evidence of how you meet the English Language requirement.

We mainly accept IELTS or TOEFL tests. Please note IELTS and TOEFL are only valid for two years.

We require a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 overall or TOEFL (iBT) 90. Each component of the English test should meet the minimum requirement of IELTS 5.5 in all components, TOEFL (iBT 22). For the writing component , we expect you to have achieved a minimum of 6.0 (IELTS).