Chemical and Drug Sciences

The learning experience of UEL students enrolled on our courses is greatly enhanced due to our impressive laboratory facilities at Stratford Campus.

We were awarded a £1.2 million grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to build a new high-tech super-lab. This was match-funded by the University, making an overall investment of £2.4 million.

These facilities have a major impact on the student experience at UEL and boost the University’s reputation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects. We have 10 teaching laboratories, 6 dedicated research laboratories and a large variety of specialist equipment suited to teaching and research in Bioscience. This includes: a high specification curved field MALDI TOF for proteomics research, flow cytometry equipment, HPLC-MS, GC-MS, PCR and real-time PCR, sequencing and equipment for ultrasound imaging, a new confocal microscope, a range of micro titre-plate readers including absorbance, scanning, fluorescence and bioluminescence machines.

All laboratories have been completely refurbished. In the Pharmacology laboratory each workstation is supplied with analogue to digital data analysis equipment from ADI instruments and there is a electrophysiology laboratory equipped for patch-clamping. The facilities are a major benefit to postgraduate researchers as well as undergraduates.

To find out more and experience our facilities first-hand, visit us at an Open Day or take a virtual tour.

We have two research groups, one working in medicines and the other in infections and immunity. We’re also involved in research that tries to predict new drugs - or bio-informatics as it's known. We use computers to study and process data to help predict what a new drug structure would look like before making it.

We often carry out research in collaboration with other leading research universities in London, including University College London and King’s College London, as well as overseas institutions. Students studying at all levels have an opportunity to get involved in our research work.

Bioscience research played a major part in our recent successful research assessment in Allied Health. The work of our researchers was rated the best in London among modern universities in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework – the six-yearly national review of research quality in higher education.

An expert panel rated 67 per cent of our research as ‘internationally excellent’ and 19 per cent of it as ‘world-leading’ – the highest possible accolade.