Program Overview

Infectious Disease, Autoimmunity and Immunotherapies iBSc

Key Information

• Course type: Single honours
• Delivery mode: In person
• Study mode: Full time
• Duration: One year
• Application status: Open
• Start date: September 2025
• Application deadline: 29 June 2025

Course Description

This one-year intercalated BSc offers a unique opportunity to learn about scientific research, innovation, and medical entrepreneurship. The course will provide you with knowledge and understanding of key molecular, cellular, and tissue disease processes as well as skills in evaluating biomedical research. You will develop insight into, and critical analysis of, scientific literature and research.

Key Benefits

• One-year programme leading to an intercalated BSc
• The flexibility to choose either a laboratory-based project or a library-based project
• Option to take the Health Entrepreneurship module, which provides a hands-on opportunity to develop skills and understanding of entrepreneurship in a clinical context
• Teaching by internationally renowned scientists and researchers

Course Essentials

• Explore how viruses and other pathogens cause disease, how an effective immune response protects us from infectious diseases and cancer, and what happens when the immune system goes wrong
• Learn how vaccines, antimicrobial drugs, and immunotherapies are used to treat infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancer
• Understand how vaccines and antimicrobial drugs are discovered and the pipeline from pre-clinical testing through to clinical trials
• Have the opportunity to choose a laboratory-based research project working with internationally renowned scientists
• Have the opportunity to take the Health Entrepreneurship module offered by King’s Business School and Entrepreneurship Institute alongside the Faculty of Life Science and Medicine
• Develop insight into, and critical analysis of, scientific literature and research

Base Campus

• Guy’s Campus: The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, and the Institute of Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience are based at the riverside Guy's Campus, next to the Shard

Regulating Bodies

• King's is regulated by the Office for Students

Entry Requirements

• Full details on how to apply for King's internal students are included on KEATS
• For further information, please see the Intercalated webpage
• Application deadlines:
  • King's internal students: 26th January 2025
  • External students: 29th June 2025
• Entry requirements for MBBS students:
  • King’s students must have passed Stage 1 and Stage 2
  • External students must have first-time passes for years 1 and 2 and all SSCs
• Entry requirements for Dental students:
  • BDS students are required to pass year 2 at the first attempt and year 3 or 4 if applicable
• Entry requirements for Veterinary students:
  • Veterinary students are required to pass year 2 at the first attempt and year 3 if applicable

Teaching and Structure

• Teaching methods: lectures, tutorials, seminars, laboratory work, and self-study
• Location: primarily taught at the King’s College London Guy’s campus
• Assessment: presentations, essays, project reports, portfolios, exams, and dissertation
• Structure: one-year course, 120 credits, with required and optional modules

Required Modules

• Viruses and Diseases Semester 1 (15 credits)
• Immunology of Human Disease (15 credits)
• Plus one of the following two modules:
  • Infectious Diseases & Immunobiology Laboratory Project (45 credits)
  • Library Project in Infection and Immunity (15 credits)

Optional Modules

• Additional credits to ensure a total of 120 credits across the whole year should be taken from the following modules:
  • Health Entrepreneurship (30 credits)
  • Immunology and Immunotherapy of Cancer (15 credits)
  • Immunomodulation and translational research (15 credits)
  • Molecular Immunology (15 credits)
  • Viruses and Diseases Semester 2 (15 credits)
  • Host microbe interactions (15 credits)
  • Cancer Genetics (15 credits)
  • Pharmacology of Inflammation (15 credits)
  • Experimental Pharmacology of Inflammation (30 credits)
  • Cancer, Society and Public Health (15 credits)

Employability

• Almost all doctors will treat patients with an infectious disease, cancer, or autoimmune disease
• Through this programme, you will learn the fundamentals of infectious diseases and immunology as well as how they are applied to treatments used in diverse medical specialties
• This programme will prepare students for career paths specialising in infection, allergy, immunology, rheumatology, medical oncology, and general practice

Tuition Fees

• Full-time tuition fees UK: £9,535 per year (based on the UK Government's cap)
• Full-time tuition fees International: £35,800 per year (subject to annual increases in subsequent years of study)
• Additional costs: books, clothing, library fees, personal photocopies, printing course handouts, society membership fees, stationery, graduation costs, travel costs, and accommodation fees

Funding

• To find out more about bursaries, scholarships, grants, tuition fees, living expenses, student loans, and other financial help available at King's, please visit the Fees and Funding section.