The University of Birmingham is at the vanguard of developments in the UK’s flourishing Life Sciences sector, an area of major significance to the UK economy with an annual turnover of more than £50 billion.
Birmingham Heroes: Rima Dhillon
High-calibre graduates
Strategic investment in research and infrastructure means the University is uniquely placed to provide a platform for the world-leading research and academic-business collaborations being forged in the West Midlands region which promise to put Birmingham at the cutting edge of the Life Sciences field.
Key to this is investment in people, and the University is providing significant numbers of high-calibre graduates in medical, biochemistry and related fields to meet the future needs of the sector.
Workforce of the future
Our high quality and innovative education programmes transform students from all over the world into professionals with the knowledge and skills to be the biomedical and healthcare workforce of the future.
Top-class teaching is backed by an outstanding student experience tailored to individual needs; for the undergraduate or postgraduate student or the career professional.
Birmingham Heroes: Shayan Ahmed
Vice-Dean of Education and Programme Director MBChB
Foundation Doctor Year 1 Founder of MiLE, a West Midlands CPR voluntary group
Teaches on the MBCHB and her maternal health research directly impacts the ethnic communities around Birmingham
Foundation Doctor Year 2. He was in our A2B scheme having first been inspired to do medicine at a University of Birmingham summer school ten years ago
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