Biomedical Sciences
visiting students
Biomedical Sciences is an exciting interdisciplinary degree course at Oxford which allows students to develop an integrated understanding of the causes and treatments of human diseases.
Programme Information
Visiting Students are invited to choose from a variety of courses which form part of the Biomedical Sciences undergraduate degree programme.
Successful applicants will already have an academic background in relevant subject areas, and must have taken college-level science classes prior to their arrival at St Edmund Hall.
Course options within Biomedical Sciences are listed below. The exact content of your courses will be decided in consultation with your tutor at St Edmund Hall and may depend on your existing academic strengths, the teaching resources available, and the term(s) in which you will be studying at Oxford.
The preferred terms shown below indicate when the associated University lectures and teaching for each course normally take place. Biomedical Sciences can still be studied in Trinity Term, when College teaching will continue, although there is no associated University teaching during that term.
The preferred terms are therefore recommendations rather than strict requirements. Students attending for Hilary and Trinity Terms are encouraged, wherever possible, to study a course with a Hilary Term preference during Hilary Term, so that they can benefit from the associated University teaching.
Courses
Associated University Teaching: Intro to infectious diseases; Bacterial form and function; Antibiotics and Resistance; Bacteria Pathogenesis 1 & 2; Preventing bacterial infections; Neutrophils; Macrophages; Acute inflammation and fever; Adaptive immunology 1, 2, 3 & 4; Classic papers in innate immunity I; Cell-mediated infector mechanisms; Antibody effector mechanisms; Intro to virology; Influenza 1 & 2; Viral Hepatitis; Herpes Viruses; Latent Infection: tumour viruses; HIV/AIDS 1 & 2; Tuberculosis (this lecture is in Hilary term).
Associated University Teaching: Neutrophils; Macrophages; Acute Inflammation and fever; Adaptive immunology I; Immunopathology and Autoimmunity; Mucosal Immunity; Transplantation and Tolerance; Chronic Inflammation; Tuberculosis; Prions and Amyloid; Atherosclerosis; Arterial Thrombosis; Venous Thrombosis; Cancer biology lecture series 1 to 5 (including History, Therapy, Hallmarks and Metastasis).
Associated University Teaching: Drug receptor structure/function; Advanced drug/receptor theory; Receptors and signal transduction; Pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism; Peripheral pharmacology; Endocrine pharmacology: diabetes and obesity / reproduction, thyroid and bone; Respiratory pharmacology; Cardiac pharmacology; Vascular pharmacology; Pharmacology of BP control; The kidney – transporters and diuretics; Gastrointestinal pharmacology; Pain; Antibiotics and antiviral agents; Cancer and pharmacology of cell growth; target Identification and validation in drug discovery; Academic drug design and discovery.
Associated University Teaching: Renal-endocrine Interactions; Regulation of Potassium; Integrative Pharmacology of Fluid Balance; Physiological Changes During Exercise; Control During Exercise; Regulation of plasma pH; Renal contribution to control of Plasma pH; Physiology at High Altitude; Long-term Control of Blood Pressure; General Anaesthesia; Atherosclerosis; Arterial Thrombosis; Venous Thrombosis; Pharmacology of Blood Pressure Control; Pharmacology of Asthma.
Associated University Teaching: Families of Cell Surface Receptors; G proteins; The Second Messenger Concept; Calcium Signalling; The Inositol Lipid Pathway; Signalling through Enzyme-coupled Receptors; Nitric Oxide and cGMP Signalling; Kinases and Phosphatases.
Visiting Students
More information about becoming a Visiting Student at St Edmund Hall – including finance, accommodation and how to apply