Future Biomedical Scientist Summer Programme
Explore biomedical science through hands-on laboratory work, research, and the journey from scientific discovery to clinical application.
Inside Biomedical Science
Behind every medical advance is the science that made it possible.
Over two weeks at Imperial College London, you'll work alongside biomedical researchers and laboratory scientists to learn real bench techniques and explore how discoveries at the molecular level change lives. You'll extract DNA, run a Western blot, prepare and stain biological samples for microscopy, interpret biomedical images, and work through the drug development pipeline from laboratory to patient. You'll visit a working research facility and see how professional science operates from the inside. Every session is delivered by working scientists, not teachers.
The programme concludes with the ProEd Field Project, a group research project designed to strengthen university applications, presented to external professionals. You leave with a ProEd certificate, a written Field Project report, and professional panel feedback.
Key highlights
Hands-on laboratory experience
Develop practical laboratory skills and gain experience using techniques and methods found in biomedical research.
Explore biomedical research
Investigate scientific questions, design experiments, and understand how researchers build evidence through practical investigation.
Work with scientific data
Analyse and interpret experimental results, developing the critical thinking and problem-solving skills used in biomedical science.
From discovery to application
Explore how biomedical research develops from laboratory investigation towards discoveries with potential clinical applications.
Programme timetable
Timetable is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Step Into the Life Sciences
- Discover the breadth of careers from the operating theatre to the research lab
- Practise structured clinical questioning techniques used by real professionals
- Debate real ethical dilemmas facing clinicians and researchers today
- Trace a medical discovery from laboratory hypothesis to patient treatment
From Cells to Systems
- Explore how the human body works at the organ level and the molecular level
- Investigate a real disease by tracing it from patient symptoms to molecular cause
- Work through a diagnostic reasoning challenge using clinical and laboratory data• Hands-on workshop: examine biological specimens and interpret diagnostic images
Outbreak
- Investigate a real disease outbreak and build a public health response
- Work through the drug development pipeline and decide whether to invest or abandon
- Debate a live public health policy question with real-world evidence
- Design a rapid research study and present your methodology to your peers
Into the Lab
- Roll up your sleeves for a hands-on DNA extraction experiment in a real laboratory
- See how molecular biology powers forensics, genetic testing, and diagnostics
- Trace an inherited condition through a family and pin down the exact gene involved
Step Into the Life Sciences
- Discover the breadth of careers from the operating theatre to the research lab
- Practise structured clinical questioning techniques used by real professionals
- Debate real ethical dilemmas facing clinicians and researchers today
- Trace a medical discovery from laboratory hypothesis to patient treatment
From Cells to Systems
- Explore how the human body works at the organ level and the molecular level
- Investigate a real disease by tracing it from patient symptoms to molecular cause
- Work through a diagnostic reasoning challenge using clinical and laboratory data• Hands-on workshop: examine biological specimens and interpret diagnostic images
Outbreak
- Investigate a real disease outbreak and build a public health response
- Work through the drug development pipeline and decide whether to invest or abandon
- Debate a live public health policy question with real-world evidence
- Design a rapid research study and present your methodology to your peers
Into the Lab
- Roll up your sleeves for a hands-on DNA extraction experiment in a real laboratory
- See how molecular biology powers forensics, genetic testing, and diagnostics
- Trace an inherited condition through a family and pin down the exact gene involved
The ProEd Field Project
The programme concludes with a research-based Field Project, giving students the opportunity to bring together what they have learned and investigate a biomedical question in greater depth.
Your research project
Develop a research project with professional guidance, bringing together the question, evidence and methodology in a written report and final presentation.
How it’s supervised
Work with professional mentors to develop the project, refine the research approach, prepare the written report and rehearse for the final presentation.
Example: Develop a biomedical research question, design an investigation from hypothesis to methodology, and present the final project to a panel of external life sciences professionals for feedback.
What's included
Included in the fee
Single room upgrade available at booking
Optional lunch vouchers can be booked for students attending all residential programmes. On-campus cafes and restaurants are available. However, they only accept payment cards and do not accept cash.
All day travel costs covered
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Not included
Optional lunch vouchers can be booked for students attending all residential programmes. On-campus cafes and restaurants are available. However, they only accept payment cards and do not accept cash.
Starts 19 Jul
