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Life Science and Technology

Master

The Leiden Institute of Chemistry organises two MSc programs: MSc Life Science & Technology and MSc Chemistry and participates in three Graduate Schools

  • Netherlands Research School of Chemical Biology, NRSCB

  • Netherlands’ MAgnetic Resonance Research School NMARRS

  • Graduate Program “Sustainability: the Molecular Approach”, HRSMC

The Master’s programme consists of the following specialisations:

  • Life Science Research and Development

  • Life Science and Education

  • Life Science and Communication and Society

  • Life Science-Based Business Development

Details about their Programme’s and Organisation can be found at: MSc Programmes at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry

The most actual information can be found at the website above. The program for 2017-2018 is provisional!

For our program and schedules visit MSc Courses at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry

MSc schedule Chemistry and Life Science and Technology

General Compulsory courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Research training project 20/60
Essay and Colloquium (LST) 6
Academic writing 2
Science Methodology (SCM) 4

Core courses MSc LST

The program offers eight core courses organized in two course series: Molecular Sciences and Medical Sciences. Students have to choose at least two coures form each category.

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

Molecular Sciences
Molecular Chemistry (MC) 6
Enzyme dynamics: NMR spectroscopy and kinetics 6
Bionanotechnology (BNT) 6
Chemical Genetics (CG) 6

Medical Sciences
Genome organization and maintenance in cancer and aging (GCA) 6
Bio(medical) Informatics (BMI) 6
Global Regulatory Networks in Bacteria (GRNB) 6
In-vivo biomolecular interactions underlying diseases (IBID) 6

Elective courses

  • Dependent on the chosen specialisation a number of elective courses can be selected from the MSc Chemistry and MSc Life Science and Technology programme.

  • For more information visit the programmes website

  • Students may chose core courses as elective courses.

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Bioinorganic Catalysis (BIOC) 6
Biomaterials (BMAT) 6
Chemical Immunology (CHI) 6
Cross-domain chromatin organisation (CDC) 4
Metals and Life (MAL) 6
Molecular Aspects of RNA Viruses (MRV) 4
Synthetic Organic Chemistry (SOC) 6
Supramolecular Chemistry (SUP) 6
Photochemistry (PC) 6
Density Functional Theory in Practice (DIP) 6
Integrated Cell Biology (ICB) 2