Molecular Life Sciences

Combine chemistry, biology and medical sciences in a challenging programme. Unravel the workings of healthy and diseased cells and gain the fundamental knowledge necessary for medical innovation.

Something for you?

• Medical challenges can only be solved with a combined expertise in chemistry, biology, medical sciences, physics, and mathematics. This Bachelor's combines all these fields in a challenging programme.
• With our many fundamental molecular and (organic) chemistry research groups at Radboud University, and biomedical and clinical departments at Radboudumc, you will study and work at the forefront of molecular and medical sciences.
• Use unique research facilities: lasers, microscopes, genome-wide DNA technologies, high field magnets.

In the Molecular Life Sciences programme you study biological and biomedical processes from a molecular perspective, and you learn about important molecular processes in which cells work together to form a multicellular organism (human, animal or plant). Of course, you will also need to study the relevant mathematical and physical concepts needed to understand molecular processes. That's why especially in the first year, you will follow challenging courses in physics and mathematics. Moreover, you will be studying the differences between healthy and diseased cells. You will get acquainted with these topics during lectures and seminars and perform hands-on experiments in the lab.

In the second semester of the second year, you start your specialisation phase and compose your own programme. You can choose to specialise in medical biology or move in a biochemical direction.

Kastu feedback about the program after the visit

• At RU students have to really like to do research, to write and to analyze, because most of the assignments are written.
• RU has free writing classes at which students can attend if they struggle with academic writing (most of the students attends them).
• Students mostly can learn Dutch for free and get 50% discount to learn other languages like Spanish, Chinese or other 15 languages.
• Easy to find a job as a student – lots of shops, bars, restaurants. Student who gave me a tour said all his friends found a job in 2-3 months.