School of Biosciences and Medicine
Explore our top 10 ranked teaching, our world-leading research, our state-of-the-art facilities and the people who make up the School.
Welcome to the School
Listen to our Head of School, Professor David J. Blackbourn, talk about what you can expect when you join us in September, including how we're moving to 'hybrid education' to ensure we all stay safe.
Explore our departments
Our teaching and research is organised around four academic departments. Each department comprises of sections that are organised by discipline and that are pillars of research excellence.
Research
Our research activity fully embraces the ‘bench-to-bedside’ concept and extends to the ‘second translation’ or bedside-to-clinical-practice domain.
Accredited by the Royal Society of Biology
Our undergraduate courses are accredited by the Royal Society of Biology. They have been developed to include a range of valuable transferable skills, including the ability to solve problems, evaluate evidence and analyse data.
Learn more about our undergraduate courses.
Recipient of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize 2017
The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, the highest accolade for any academic institution, has been awarded to the University of Surrey in recognition of its excellence in the field of food and nutrition.
We are proud to hold a Silver Athena SWAN award
The School of Biosciences and Medicine is committed to the Athena SWAN principles, recognising that academia will achieve maximum potential by embracing diversity and combatting inequality.
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Interesting pedagogical research on the critical skills underpinning #Biochemistry teaching and learning by PhD stu… https://t.co/JVoyjmNj3W
Webinar and blog, reviewing COVID-19 antibody/B cell data by Prof Deborah Dunn-Walters https://t.co/wcqxgYKYzx
Our former UG and PGR Georgios Efthimiou, now a Lecturer in Microbiology at @HullBiomed, explains how he continued… https://t.co/wdh1tH84aR