Your Biochemistry offer

Congratulations on your offer to study Biochemistry at Lancaster.

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Offer Holder Events

Discover Lancaster University for yourself at one of our events exclusively for Biochemistry offer holders and their guests.

  • Saturday 8 February
  • Saturday 22 February
  • Saturday 15 March
  • Saturday 5 April

These events are a chance to experience our friendly and inclusive teaching environment first-hand. You’ll get to know our Biosciences team and current students through subject talks, taster sessions and informal chats over a complimentary lunch.

At your Offer Holder Event, you will:

  • Learn more about the structure of your degree and our approach to teaching and learning
  • Experience life as a Biochemistry student through a hands-on laboratory taster session
  • Have the opportunity to chat with current students and staff, and find out answers to any questions you may have

Once you have received an offer to study Biochemistry, you will be emailed a unique booking link to the email address used on your UCAS application. If you have any questions, or haven't received your personal booking link, please email us.

Biochemistry is an exciting and rapidly developing subject and the primary investigative science within biology and medicine. You will examine the structure and function of living organisms at the molecular and cellular level, studying core modules in biochemistry and chemistry.

Why Lancaster?

In joining Lancaster, you will become a part of our Biosciences community in a highly ranked department (3rd in the UK for Biomedical Sciences, The Guardian University Guide 2025).

Biochemistry is an important investigative science within both biology and medicine. Taught by internationally renowned academics from both the Biomedical and Life Sciences and Chemistry departments, you will gain a solid foundation in modern biochemical concepts whilst also specialising your studies through the focused biochemistry or biomedicine or genetics pathways.

World-class facilities

Our teaching laboratories are at the centre of your degree. They are where you will put into practice, and test your knowledge, from lectures and tutorials; they are the place where you’ll learn to use the wide variety of equipment needed to understand the fundamentals of the science of life; they are where you’ll hone skills in working as a team, planning and running experiments, and where you’ll make lasting friendships with your fellow Biosciences students.

Research with impact

We talk a lot about ‘research-led teaching’ but what does that really mean? It means that the academics you will learn from, the people taking your labs and tutorials and standing at the front of the lecture theatres, are experts in their fields. Their research is shaping our understanding of the world and their work feeds into our degree programmes, ensuring that your education is informed by cutting-edge thinking.

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A career in the making

One of our degrees will give you the skills to pursue a career in your chosen area of the biosciences and will give you the transferable skills valued by a wide range of future employers. In addition to subject-specific knowledge you'll gain numerical, analytical and other transferrable skills required for scientific careers but equally applicable elsewhere.

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Biochemistry student Melissa, wearing a white lab coat whilst sat in the laboratory

Meet our students: Melissa

I felt like the whole vibe and atmosphere of Lancaster was the best: when I came on the Open Day straight away it was the labs that blew me away, they were so modern.

By choosing biochemistry, it’s allowed me to further learn about the impacts of people’s environments or genetics and how they may get diseases. In the first year, my degree was split between biology and chemistry so you could gauge what you wanted to choose in the second year, and even though I’m not doing straight chemistry, there is still some in the biochemistry modules.

In the practicals, I think the interaction with the lab demonstrators and lecturers is more personal than in a big lecture theatre. You can ask specific questions and see how the theory we’ve been learning applies in the lab, and you have the demonstrators there to help if you get stuck.

Melissa Knott, Biochemistry graduate

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