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Medical Business and Innovation degrees
Expenses-paid internship in Japan
BSc Medical Innovation and Enterprise student Sofia took a two-month expenses-paid research internship in Tokyo, thanks to the AMGEN Scholars programme. She studied 3D tissue engineering with microfabrication techniques, learning from world-renowned professors.
Our programmes
We work at the forefront of innovation and enterprise in the medical sciences. Our BSc degree combines medical science and business skills. You’ll learn how to translate cutting-edge research into innovative products and services. Our postgraduate degrees explore new discoveries in areas such as imaging, drugs, and medical engineering. You’ll understand the science behind some of the best medical innovations with a mind to advancing those areas and the ways in which we fight disease in the future.
Medical Innovation and Enterprise, BSc
Learn to translate cutting-edge research into products and services that will transform the way we diagnose and treat disease.
- Full-time, 3 years.
- Subjects: Medical Business and Enterprise; Medical Technology and Diagnostics
Medical Innovation and Enterprise, MSci
Become a medical scientist who is not only familiar with latest medical innovations but also knows how to translate them into commercial opportunities.
- Full-time, 4 years.
- Subjects: Medical Business and Enterprise; Medical Technology and Diagnostics
Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine, MSc / PGCert
This MSc gives you a robust scientific understanding in nanotechnology and regenerative medicine, combined with a hands-on practical and translational focus.
- Full-time, 1 year. Flexible, max. 5 years.
- Subjects: Medical Technology and Diagnostics; Surgery, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine; Medical Business and Innovation
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Advanced Biomedical Imaging, MSc
Gain detailed knowledge of the imaging techniques that are shaping biomedical research and translational medicine around the world.
- Full-time, 1 year
- Subjects: Medical Technology and Diagnostics; Medical Science and Applications; Medical Business and Innovation
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technologies, MSc
This full-time MSc focuses on the design, development, and clinical application of novel rehabilitative and assistive technologies.
- Full-time, 1 year.
- Subjects: Sport Medicine, Exercise and Rehabilitation | Medical Technology and Diagnostics | Medical Business and Innovation
UCL School of Management
Our Medical Innovation and Enterprise degree includes teaching from experts in UCL's School of Management. The School specialises in management, entrepreneurship, information management for business, management science and business analytics. We prepare scientists, engineers, physicians, and other innovators for leadership roles in the next generation of technology-intensive organisations.
Why study Medical Business and Innovation at UCL?
Expectations are rising for new breakthroughs and advances in healthcare solutions. Our teaching is informed by world-leading research in areas such as imaging, regenerative medicine, 3D printing, digital healthcare and beyond. Our BSc and four-year MSci degree generate the next generation of leaders in medical innovation and enterprise.
Careers
Our medical business and innovation courses offer a range of career advantages, not just for roles that need innovative medical scientists with business acumen, but also for medical / MedTech entrepreneurs who want to create their own companies. Our students develop as scientists who can create and produce our next medical advances and then monetise these developments.
Graduates gain a competitive advantage in several fields including biomedical research, technology transfer, medical enterprise (e.g., company start-ups / university spin-out companies), and consultancy. They are also suited to further study such as a master’s in business administration (health) or an MPhil / PhD in medicine or surgery.
“It was a one-of-a-kind programme. It combined medical sciences with marketing, management and creative thinking. It gave me the opportunity to keep my horizons open.
We learn in a really open and friendly environment. We also do a lot of workshops, group work and flipped classroom kind of lectures.
You are all over the place - between med school, law school and the school of management - but it is very rewarding to be able to gain all of this knowledge just in your BSc.
Gaia Greco, BSc Medical Innovation and Enterprise.
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Did you know?
UCL is a top-rated university in the UK for research strength in the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021).
UCLH has one of the two Proton Beam Therapy departments in the UK? Our department can treat up to 650 NHS patients per year from across the country.
UCL is ranked 7th for Clinical and Health in the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings by subject.
Many spinout companies have formed from medical innovations and products that were developed within the faculty.
Our research in Medical Business and Innovation
UCL scientists have an international reputation for leading basic, translational, and clinical research. Our programmes are research-led, so you are gaining the latest knowledge and techniques alongside the applied skills to gauge opportunities and exploit them. We have always sought to make advances for public good, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, where we helped to expedite the production of mechanical ventilators.
Groundbreaking India partnership for med tech innovation
In November 2024, we launched a groundbreaking new collaboration with the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to co-create pioneering solutions in the field of medical technology.
Blood filtration device to change treatment of diseases
UCL spinout MediSieve has devised innovative blood filtration technology to transform the treatment of malaria, sepsis, leukaemia and COVID-19. The technology is like dialysis, circulating a patient’s blood outside their body.
Innovation in Women's Health
Working with Barclays Eagle Labs, UCL Innovation & Enterprise brought together UCL researchers and external partners to explore current challenges in women’s health and ideas for innovative solutions. Find out more about how we’re supporting UCL academics to work with external partners to solve challenges facing individuals, organisations and society.
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