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Welcome to the School
The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences is one of the largest departments at Queen Mary, University of London's Mile End campus, with over 70 members of academic staff and 1300 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The School is committed to excellence in research and teaching, and offers an exciting and stimulating environment for staff and students.
Research
Staff research interests within the School cover the
whole spectrum of biological and chemical sciences, with
internationally acclaimed work in ecology, behaviour, evolutionary
biology, genetics, protein structure and function, and molecular
synthesis and catalysis. Further details, including seminar dates, can
be found on our News and Research pages.
Degrees
The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences has confirmed its position as one of the largest departments of its kind, with high-profile new appointments in cognitive biology, synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology, structural biology, bioinformatics, microbiology, marine biology and neurobiology.
We offer a wide range of degree programmes at Foundation, BSc/MSci, MSc and PhD levels, from biomedical sciences and biochemistry to pharmaceutical chemistry, molecular biology, and marine, freshwater and environmental biology.
Our degree programmes are kept under continuous review to ensure that they are stimulating and effective in preparing our graduates for their future careers.
Our degrees feature small group tutorial teaching, modern laboratories with excellent facilities, subsidised field courses in places as far afield as Malaysia, and an extensive final-year research project.
BSc Psychology - Minds Matter!
Study psychology as a natural science in the SBCS from September 2009.
Learn about how and why human and animal minds are organised the way
they are, and acquire unique transferable skills for a wide range of
science and non-science careers. Follow this
link for more information.
What The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2007 says about us…
With a self-contained campus 15 minutes from central London, Queen Mary offers something different to the other colleges within the University of London federation. Queen Mary is multi-faculty, unlike many other University of London institutions…consequently, teaching and research excellence spans the arts and sciences…
Having disappeared from the countryside hundreds of years ago, beavers could today thrive on rivers and waterways according to a new study. Professor John Gurnell of the SBCS is lead author of the Natural England/PTES report and said: “The potential for them to give benefits to the country at large is quite enormous.” Read more about 
There is an unwelcome visitor in our back gardens. The owners of suburban garden ponds have been opening their curtains to find dead frogs all over the lawn. This threat to our well-loved native frogs is caused by a foreign virus (Ranavirus) which has invaded the home counties around London, and is now spreading North and West. Amber Teacher and Richard Nichols explain -