Clinical Scientist

What do they do?

A clinical scientist is trained to work in a clinical laboratory to perform data analysis and generation. A clinical scientist may have a varied workload. They may interpret test results and suggest treatments to doctors. They may research, develop and test new methods of genetic diagnosis and treatment. They may study genomic test results and analyse data to check for inherited diseases.

What modules are relevant?

A student wishing to pursue a career as a clinical scientist might want to consider the following combination of modules:

• GM1 · Fundamentals of human genetics and genomics

• GM3 · Omics technologies and their application to genomic medicine

• GM7 · Molecular pathology of cancer and application of genomics in cancer

• GM12 · Genomics of common and rare inherited disease

• GM6 · Application of genomics in infectious disease

• GM8 · Pharmacogenomics and stratified healthcare

• GM11 · Variant interpretation (formerly Bioinformatics)

• GM5 · Bioinformatics, interpretation and data quality assurance in genomic analysis (formerly Advanced Bioinformatics)

• Research Project (computational focused)

"This combination of modules covers the main research areas of genomic medicine, to ensure you have the breadth of knowledge and computational skills to tackle the varied challenges you might encounter as a clinical scientist"