Our courses
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.
These degrees could help you become a medical entrepreneur, involved in the design and delivery of new medical innovations and medical tech solutions.
Featured programmes
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.
Medical Innovation and Enterprise, MSci
Become a medical scientist who understands the latest medical innovations and can translate them into commercial opportunities. This 4-year degree leading to a master's includes a consultancy project.
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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.
Advanced Biomedical Imaging, MSc
Gain detailed knowledge of the imaging techniques that are shaping biomedical research and translational medicine around the world.
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technologies, MSc
This full-time MSc focuses on the design, development, and clinical application of novel rehabilitative and assistive technologies.
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.
Shared first year for flexibility
Most of the BSc courses in Medical Sciences have a shared first year. This gives you the flexibility to switch degrees if your interests change.
UCL students create solutions for COVID-19
Our Student COVID-19 Recovery Challenge competition invited UCL students to come up with ideas to solve issues caused by the pandemic.
UCL students win prestigious global change competition
Three UCL students won the prestigious Schmidt Futures competition for their innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.
Cerveau Technologies: fighting Alzheimer’s Disease
Our partnership enables UCL to develop and distribute an imaging agent, boosting the understanding of neurodegenerative disease.
Sofia's internship in Japan
BSc student Sofia applied to the AMGEN Scholars programme and took a two-month expenses-paid research internship in Tokyo.
Shaping the future of robotics
Chinemelu Ezeh developed a smart wheelchair equipped with mobile robotic technology to assist users in different situations. He now leads a team at Oxbotica.
"I have this foundation that no one else will have"
Taylor from Australia says the BSc Medical Innovation and Enterprise gives the flexibility to go into medicine, business, consultancy, or even law. The degree provides an intersection of medicine and business that enables you to present yourself to businesses, research teams or other future career stakeholders and show where you have chosen to specialise.
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. 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.
Leading Healthcare Innovation
Our Medical Innovation and Enterprise degree includes teaching from experts in UCL's School of Management. The School prepares scientists, engineers, physicians, and other innovators for leadership roles in the next generation of tech-driven organisations.
UCL School of Management
The UCL School of Management specialises in management, entrepreneurship, information management for business, management science and business analytics.
Our course directors
Meet the inspiring academics who are shaping how we teach medical business, medical innovation and enterprise at University College London.
Lecturer in Medical Innovation and Enterprise
Division of Surgery & Interventional Science
Professor of Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine
Division of Surgery & Interventional Science
Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Science and Engineering
Division of Surgery & Interventional Science
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.
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.
Did you know?
Many spinout companies have formed from medical innovations developed within the faculty.
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.
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