The course is designed for graduates with a BSc in the life sciences or other science disciplines, and for intercalating and fully qualified MBBS or BDS students. It can be taken either as a stand-alone qualification or as an entry route onto a PhD or MD.

The taught component of the course includes subject-specific content in the area of diabetes. You have the flexibility to develop your own bespoke course by selecting additional, complementary modules. You will also participate in training in general research principles, and other professional and key skills.

Your research project comprises the major element of the course. This project will involve 24 weeks of research in an area of diabetes under the supervision of an expert academic researcher in the field.

The course allows you to experience an internationally competitive research area, predominantly in academia but also potentially in industry.

Diabetes MRes is closely linked to a suite of MRes courses that you may also be interested in:

• Ageing and Health MRes
• Animal Behaviour MRes
• Biotechnology and Business Enterprise MRes
• Cancer MRes
• Cardiovascular Science in Health and Disease MRes
• Cell Signalling in Health and Disease MRes
• Epidemiology MRes
• Evolution and Human Behaviour MRes
• Immunobiology MRes
• Medical Genetics MRes
• Medical Molecular Biosciences MRes
• Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine MRes
• Molecular Microbiology MRes
• Musculoskeletal Ageing (CIMA) MRes
• Neuromuscular Diseases MRes
• Neuroscience MRes
• Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine MRes
• Systems Biology MRes
• Toxicology MRes
• Translational Medicine and Therapeutics MRes
• Transplantation MRes

Faculty of Medical Sciences Graduate School

Our Medical Sciences Graduate School is dedicated to providing you with information, support and advice throughout your research degree studies. We can help and advise you on a variety of queries relating to your studies, funding or welfare.

Our Research Student Development Programme supports and complements your research whilst developing your professional skills and confidence.

You will make an on-going assessment of your own development and training needs through personal development planning (PDP) in the ePortfolio system. Our organised external events and development programme have been mapped against the Vitae Researcher Development Framework to help you identify how best to meet your training and development needs.

Modules for 2017 entry

Compulsory modules

• MMB8099 Project
• MMB8100 Research Skills and Principles for the Biosciences
• MMB8035 Diabetes

Optional modules

You will take 40 credits from the following modules:

• MMB8004 Ageing and Health
• MMB8003 The Biological Study of Behaviour
• MMB8015 Applied Immunobiology of Human Disease
• CSC8313  Bioinformatics Theory and Practice
• MEC8023 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
• MMB8011 Biology of Ageing
• MMB8007 Cancer Studies
• MMB8037 Cardiovascular Science in Health and Disease
• MMB8008 Cell Cycle Control and Cell Signalling in Health and Disease
• MMB8009 Clinical Epidemiology
• MMB8010 The Biological Basis of Psychiatric Illness and its Treatment
• MMB8043 Comparative Cognition: Information Processing in Humans and Other Animals
• MMB8002 Current Research Trends in Musculoskeletal Disease
• MMB8031 Developmental Genetics
• MMB8006 Drug Discovery and Development
• MMB8005 Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics
• MMB8030 Genetic Medicine
• MMB8014 Genetics of Common Disease
• HSC8057 Global Health
• MMB8038 Bioscience Research Development and Enterprise
• MMB8034 Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine
• MMB8016 Molecular Microbiology
• MMB8036 Neuromuscular Diseases: Bench to Bedside
• MMB8018 Research Methods in Protein Science
• MMB8019 Sensory Systems and Neuroimaging
• MMB8020 Scientific Basis of Neurological Disease
• MMB8022 Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
• MMB8033 Surgical Anatomy * (see note below)
• MMB8023 Systems Biology
• MMB8032 Toxicology
• MMB8025 Transplantation Science
• MMB8044 Exercise in Health and Disease

*MMB8033 Surgical Anatomy. This module is only open to intercalating students. In the event of this module being oversubscribed, you will be selected on the basis of academic merit.

Some combinations of modules may not be available due to timetabling constraints and in exceptional circumstances the running of some modules may be determined by student demand. 

Module changes

Module changes

Modules change annually to take account of:

• changing staff expertise
• developments in the discipline
• the requirements of external bodies and partners
• student feedback.

Most module information for 2018 entry will be available from mid-May 2018.

Find out more about our tuition fees, including how to pay them and available discounts.

EU students starting at Newcastle in 2018 will pay the UK (Home) tuition fee for the full duration of their course.

Funding opportunities

Pre-sessional English Language courses are not accepted as an alternative entry to this course.

You may need an ATAS (Academic Technology Approval Scheme) clearance certificate. You'll need to get this before you can get your visa or study on this programme. We'll let you know about the ATAS requirement in your offer letter.

Start dates

The course starts in September. There is no application closing date for this course.

We suggest international students apply at least two months before the course starts. This is so that you have enough time to make the necessary arrangements.

Deposit

If you live outside the UK/EU you must:

• pay a deposit of £1,500
• or submit an official letter of sponsorship

The deposit is payable after you receive an offer to study at Newcastle University. The deposit is non-refundable, but is deducted from your tuition fees when you register.