Vital in addressing global health and environmental challenges, biochemistry explores the chemical processes of living organisms at a molecular level. Combine your interests in biology and chemistry by applying chemical knowledge and techniques to study biological processes. You'll learn what's happening inside cells, how they communicate with each other, and use this to predict how molecules will interact. In year one you'll gain a broad grounding in biosciences to help work out where your interests lie. Then from year two, you'll choose optional units in specific areas, such as developmental biology, genomics, neuroscience, cancer biology and microbiology. And to keep your options open further, you'll even have the flexibility to switch between our biology and biochemistry courses after the first year.