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4,000 students. 207 academics. 133 research students. 81 labs / teaching clincs.
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Accreditations: IBMS + Royal Society of Biology
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International links: ‘Westminster strenghtens ties with the Medical Research Council Unit in The Gambia’ (April 2016). Westminster working to develop the sciences in Africa.
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Hot research by Dr Ed Wright into EBOLA and Zika, the ‘celebrity’ member of staff at the forefront of research into this area.
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Emphasis on being a ‘practice based university, capable of ensuring you [applicant] do independent research’.
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There’s a ‘Medical Society’ at Westminster for those who are interested in progressing into Medicine
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Possible University placements: MRC Laboratories, Gambia. KNUST Laboratories, Ghana. Mater Dei Hospital, Malta. Sanger Institute.
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Virtual Learning Environements mean you can practice lab work in a CGI environment.
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More hot research by Westminster; Breast Cancer by Dr Miriam Dwek, Genome Sequencing, Neurodegeneration, Iron to anaemics (case study), Haematology diagnostics.