Chemistry

Study programme

The Master's is a two-year programme. The Master’s programme (your chosen profile combined with your individual specialization track) consists of:

• introductory courses
• advanced courses
• research project in the field of your specialization (including a Master’s thesis) 
• a dissertation 
• a colloquium 
• optional courses

Career profiles and specializations
There are three principal routes through the Master's programme, called career profiles. Each specialisation track within a career profile can be tailor-made to a student's personal requirements. At the initial planning stage, and with advice from the master coordinator, the optimal personal programme can be defined. Each career profile and specialization includes a striking balance between compulsory courses, optional courses and research training.

Specialization tracks
Each track encompasses compulsory (theoretical) courses, a research project including a Master's thesis, a literature thesis and a colloquium, as well as optional courses or a work placement. The first year focuses on your knowledge of chemistry theory. The second year is devoted to your specialization and career profile. 

Analytical Sciences 
Molecular Design, Synthesis and Catalysis 
Molecular Simulation and Photonics

Biological Chemistry (specialization within Biomolecular Sciences)
This specialization offers an overview in the important steps in modern target finding and drug development. Focus of this specialization is the interaction between molecules (drugs, receptor ligands) with proteins in the cell, which can either be drug targets or drug modifying enzymes. Furthermore, signal transduction pathways downstream of important drug targets and cellular stress responses, induced by chemicals not normally present in cells (xenobiotics), are studied. In several new courses that have been developed for Biomolecular Sciences-Biological Chemistry, these special issues will be addressed.

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Molecular Clinical Diagnostics (specialization within Medical Natural Sciences) 
This specialization deals mainly with biomarkers and their use in clinical chemistry. The study is directed to the search for new biomarkers that can be used for the prevention, diagnostics en therapeutics of diseases, and uses a combination of hyphenated state-of-the-art bio-analytical, immunological, medical, pharmacogenetic, pharmacokinetic, etc., procedures and methodologies.

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Course descriptions

Online information regarding the biology programme and course module descriptions: 

Study guide