Pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the University of Nottingham have come together to create a Medicinal Chemistry module for undergraduates.

The first chemistry undergraduates to take part in the course started the module next week.

Run in collaboration between GSK and the University of Nottingham’s School of Chemistry, the new module aims to introduce chemistry students to the medicinal chemistry skills which the pharmaceutical industry requires, while also increasing knowledge transfer between industry and academia.

Students can take the module as an option in their third year of their four-year MSci course, allowing them to pursue an active research programme in the laboratory on a molecular target that the pharmaceutical company is developing.