BSc (Hons) Cell and Tissue Engineering with Foundation Year

**About Keele**Set in 600 acres of countryside in North Staffordshire, we have one of the largest and most beautiful campuses in Britain. We’re proud to be No.2 in England for Student Satisfaction with Course (Guardian University League Table, 2020), investing more than £140m in our campus in the last ten years, including £45m new science laboratories. In 2021 we were proud to be awarded Sustainability Institution of the Year at the prestigious Green Gown Awards as part of our mission to become a carbon neutral campus by 2030. We're committed to supporting you to achieve your career goals, and have a dedicated Careers and Employability team who can assist you to navigate your options beyond Keele.**Foundation Year**Our Foundation Year allows you to develop your critical thinking, academic reading, writing, and communication study skills along with subject-specific knowledge and skills. This Foundation Year provides a tailored pre-degree programme of study to better prepare you for the BSc (Hons) Cell and Tissue Engineering course. Course content has been developed in collaboration with degree teaching teams, so that by the time you begin Year 1, you will be ready to excel at your studies, as the majority of our Foundation Year students do. Throughout the programme, you will develop subject-specific and broad based skills that will be invaluable in your academic career and beyond. **Cell and Tissue Engineering**The Cell and Tissue Engineering programme at Keele will allow you to explore the dynamics of the rapidly growing field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine that is poised to reshape the future of UK and global healthcare. Throughout the Cell and Tissue Engineering programme, you will create a solid foundation in biomedical disciplines that will allow you to understand the innovative approaches to treatment and diagnosis that take into consideration genetic variations of a patient, environment and lifestyle.You will learn the fundamentals of stem cell biology, biomaterials, tissue engineering and nanotechnology and work in the laboratory to experience the discovery potentials of high throughput sequencing, 3D-bioprinting, bioreactor and genome editing technologies; cutting-edge tools that are assisting in the significant acceleration of the biological research and transformation of medicine. You will also have elective credits to be chosen across the three years of study to broaden your interest and interdisciplinarity.