Laboratories hold the key to improving healthcare – Qualify from IMU Malaysia
View(s):Keen on working in a laboratory in a career that is dedicated to help improve lives but not keen on becoming a doctor? If this is what you have always dreamt of, consider a career as a pharmaceutical chemist, biomedical scientist or a medical biotechnologist.
Pharmaceutical chemists contribute directly to the discovery and development of medicines. They work together with scientists from a variety of disciplines as well as healthcare professionals in ensuring that high quality pharmaceuticals are developed and produced.
Pharmaceutical chemists mainly work in the pharmaceutical industry in the areas of research and development, production, quality control/quality assurance, sales and marketing. They can work as coordinators of clinical trial studies in multinational drug companies or in chemical industries. Government laboratories such as the National Pharmaceutical Control Bureau, Chemistry Department, environmental protection unit and forensic science unit can also be areas of work that a pharmaceutical chemist can be involved in.
Medical biotechnology is an important field of health sciences that you can have a career in. The threat of emerging infectious and lifestyle diseases, in addition to the growing demand for preventive and personalised medicine, is an indication of the enormous 
potential for medical biotechnology. This is a career that entails the application of knowledge from basic and applied medical sciences, bioprocess engineering and bioinformatics, in the development of new technologies for the advancement of healthcare. Medical biotechnologists are employed in private and public organisations which specialise in areas such as research & development, quality control or commercialisation of pharmaceuticals, fermentation, food science, agriculture, supplementary diets, medical and scientific journalism, healthcare technology and environmental industries
Biomedical scientists are valued members of any healthcare team and they perform analyses on blood and other body fluids that are useful in detecting disease. Working closely with doctors and other healthcare professionals, biomedical scientists can be involved in forensic medicine, research, education, management and scientific journalism.
They can work in public and private hospitals, private diagnostic laboratories, public health laboratories, forensic laboratories, research institutions or in industries that employ biomedical scientists for research and development and in universities as academicians.
At the International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia’s first and most established private medical and healthcare university dedicated to healthcare education, the curriculum of the degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biomedical Science or Medical Biotechnology are developed to meet international standards and is accepted by University of Sydney (AUS), University of Newcastle (AUS), University of Otago (NZ), University of Strathclyde (UK) and St George’s University of London (UK) for credit transfer into relevant programmes. IMU is also the first Malaysian university that provides a complete and specialised undergraduate training in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Medical Biotechnology.
The Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biomedical Science and Medical Biotechnology programmes at IMU expose the students to industrial attachments, giving them the opportunity to gain valuable industrial experience and required skills to be immediately ready for employment. This would give graduates a distinct and an added advantage in their respective careers.
Studying a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biomedical Science or Medical Biotechnology at IMU uniquely provides an opportunity for you to integrate with students from the medical and other health sciences programmes. This allows for inter-professional learning, and close friendships to form, and sets the foundation for future working relationships which may lead to effective business networking after graduation.
| The programmes commence in June and September each year. Students with pre-university results who are interested in these programmes can contact our local representative on 5849401 / 2553466 or email us on malaysiaises@scholar.lkYou can also find us on our facebook page International Scholar Educational Services (Pvt) Ltd |
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