You will gain a practical understanding of techniques in clinical microbiology applicable to your own research or advanced scholarship. This will take place in the purpose-built teaching laboratory, which is well equipped with all necessary materials and is based on a routine clinical microbiology laboratory.
You will also have access to the multi-million-pound, state of the art Blizard Building. The building was designed by leading architect Will Alsop in partnership with Amec with its 9,000m2 providing world-class teaching and research facilities including open-plan laboratories, office space and the 400-seat Perrin Lecture Theatre. The Blizard houses many state of the art facilities, including light microscopy, flow cytometry, high-content screening and biological services. The wider medical school adds to this with facilities such as genomic and proteomic analysis, histopathology and statistical analysis.
The Blizard Institute is the largest institute of Queen Mary University of London's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Our research and education span broad areas of modern biomedicine, with particular expertise in cell biology, genomics, immunology, neuroscience, primary care, population health and trauma sciences. Our research puts us among the top research institutions in the UK (REF 2014). We work closely with linked NHS hospital trusts which means that the School’s research and teaching is informed by an exceptionally wide-ranging and stimulating clinical environment. Queen Mary University of London is also part of the prestigious Russell Group - a body of leading UK universities dedicated to research and teaching excellence.
You will also have access to a number of facilities on campus and at partnering institutions including a Learning Resources Centre, open around the clock, with 200 networked PCs solely for the use of postgraduate students; medical libraries located at The Royal London and St Bart's hospitals and at the Queen Mary Mile End campus; access to the Postgraduate Reading Room; research access to the British Library, and benefit from close links with other microbiology departments in the region.