To give postgraduate students in the life sciences a broad overview of the range of techniques that are applied in cellular and molecular life science research. Module Content: State of the art research methodologies covered may include: PCR technology; Cell…
Curriculum: CRDI Clinician Scientist Structured
Introduction to ‘Omic’ and Advanced Imaging Technologies
This course is designed to familiarise students with the principles, practice and application of the rapidly developing ‘omic’ and imaging technologies. It will comprise 10x3hr seminar-style sessions designed to encourage interaction between lecturers and students covering: Bioinformatics (2 sessions, the…
Advanced Biological Imaging
This module is designed for students who wish to understand and become critically aware of the principles, practice and applications of rapidly developing imaging technologies. Particular focus is given to white and fluorescent light-based imaging approaches. A series of lectures…
Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics
This module offers a range of lectures covering novel applications of molecular technologies in 23 the diagnostic arena as well as investigating the therapeutic developments made possible by increasing understanding of biology at the molecular level. Thus topics include molecular…
High Content Screening and Analysis
High content screening analysis is a novel technological platform which allows for the simultaneous assessment of hundreds of parameters in cells using a high throughput approach. Thus hundreds of variables in hundreds of wells can be continuously monitored in real…
NanoMedicine and Medicinal Chemistry
This module explores the new area of nanomedicine that is the application of nanomaterials in the research, diagnosis and therapeutics of disease. This is a multi-disciplinary field with inputs from physicists, chemists and biologists and likely to be a major…
Neuroimaging
This module will deal with the theory of imaging techniques such as MRI, functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, spectroscopy and application of these imaging techniques in the neurosciences and medical sciences.
Product Development, Validation & Regulation
In order to design safe and effective medical devices in a timely and efficient fashion, an understanding of how the body is designed to function and how it will likely respond to a medical device is key. This course will…
Public Health and Epidemiology
The aim of the module is to develop skills to interact with public health for disease prevention, post exposure management and vaccination and the planning of defined look back investigations. The epidemiology component of the module will incorporate components of…
Research Methods: Epidemiology
This module is designed for students whose research is focused on population-based studies. The basic descriptive statistics for a simple variable (e.g. means, medians, standard deviations, percentages) and for quantifying an association between two variables (e.g. mean differences, relative risks,…