Biomedical and Life Sciences

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1st in the UK for Biomedical Sciences (of IBMS-accredited courses)

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3rd in the UK for Biomedical Sciences

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3rd

3rd in the UK for graduate prospects (Biomedical Science)

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4th in the UK for satisfied with teaching (Biomedical Science)

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Our Teaching Facilities

Our teaching laboratories provide bench space for 216 students and include cold store rooms, preparation rooms, a muffle furnace room, 12 fume cupboards, storage space, locker space for students and office space for technical staff.

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Athena SWAN

The Athena Swan Charter is a framework which is used across the globe to support and transform gender equality within higher education (HE) and research.

The Athena Swan Silver Award recognises our commitment to advancing the careers of women in higher education and research. As part of the Faculty of Health and Medicine, the Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences promotes and supports women across all academic roles and at all levels.

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Latest News and Events

David Elliott

BLS Seminar Series- David Elliott, Professor at Newcastle University

Seminar Details:

Date: Wednesday, 27th of November, 2024, 13:00

Venue: Furness College, Lecture Theatre 1

Title: "Why a noncoding “poison exon” in a splicing regulator gene has been ultraconserved across animal genomes?"
Victoria Sanz Moreno

BLS Seminar Series- Victoria Sanz-Moreno, Professor at the Institute of Cancer Research (London)

Seminar Details:

Date: Wednesday, 20th of November, 2024, 13:00

Venue: Furness College, Lecture Theatre 1

Title: "Biomechanical adaptations in metastatic cancer cells"
Helen Walden

BLS Seminar Series- Helen Walden, Professor at University of Glasgow

Seminar Details:

Date: Wednesday, 13th of November, 2024, 13:00

Venue: Furness College, Lecture Theatre 1

Title: "Regulation of DNA repair by monoubiquitin"
Michael Kohl

BLS Seminar- Michael Kohl, Senior Lecturer at University of Glasgow

Seminar date and venue: Wednesday, 6th of November, 2024; 13:00, Furness Lecture Theatre 1

Seminar title: Stimulus information guides the emergence of behaviour-related signals in primary somatosensory cortex during learning
Stuart Ainsworth

BLS Seminar - Stuart Ainsworth, Senior Lecturer at University of Liverpool

Wednesday, 30th October, at 1:00 pm in Lecture Theatre 2.
Montage of three images: The first (on the left) shows Insect Architecture - an amazing glass beehive sculpture. Top right is Shadowplay - a person with their hand pointing up in front of a white screen creating a shadow on one side of the screen with a ballerina shadow on the left and bottom right is In Micron - a mass of striking and brightly coloured lights in red and purpley-blue.

Installations from Lancaster University will be positively glowing at light festival

Stunning colour imagery of fly wings, an illuminated glass beehive sculpture, the mysterious world of shadows and the amazing world of AI will all be on show at ‘Light up Lancaster’ as part of the University's contribution.

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Public events at the Faculty of Health and Medicine

From public lecture series, to student-focused webinars, there's always something going on at the Faculty of Health and Medicine.

27th Nov

A New Approach to China? Assessing UK, US and EU Directions

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 5:30pm to 7:00pm
3rd Dec

MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science (FLiSS): meet the team (webinar)

Tuesday 3 December 2024, 11:00am to 11:50am

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