This 2-year Master’s programme MCLS is research oriented and takes a multidisciplinary approach to molecules and cells. The acquired broad knowledge will be translated into novel technologies solving societal problems, such as cancer, diabetes, plant growth, thereby creating industrial innovations in biotechnology.
Are you interested in studying biomolecules from a chemistry, biology, physics and/or biomedical point of view? The interplay of biomolecules in cells and organisms play a central role in this programme. In order to find the cure for a disease you must first know what’s wrong with the molecule that causes the disease. And once we know the cause: how can we repair this by another molecule?
Outstanding reputation
In this field, Utrecht University has gained an outstanding scientific reputation for advanced structural analysis of biomolecules in the context of cellular systems. Research groups from the faculties of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Physics, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine are involved in this interdisciplinary programme. Our programme is directly linked to the PhD-programmes of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, the Institute for Biodynamics and Biocomplexity and the PhD programme of Computational Life Sciences.
Within this programme you will acquire extensive knowledge and skills of genomics, proteomics, molecular interactions, cell signaling, membrane biogenesis and sorting, intracellular transport mechanisms and computational biology.
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