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CAREERS

IN BIOLOGICAL

SCIENCES

“I graduated in 2021 from the MSci Applied Biological The RVC’s Biological Sciences Pathways are
Research with a first class honours and an award challenging, yet rewarding, and will equip you
for coming first place in the MSci programmes. After with practical techniques and transferable skills
graduating from my degree, I worked at the Early
Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge, for a year for a range of careers allied to biomedical and
as a research assistant. I used organoid models to bioveterinary science.
understand how early breast and endometrial cancers
are impacted by obesity-related factors. After, this year,
I was accepted onto a PhD programme, where I am now EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE
a second year PhD student at UCL Cancer Institute CAREERS GRADUATES HAVE
in London, studying how pre-cancers in the upper
gastrointestinal tract evolve into cancer and whether GONE INTO INCLUDE:
we can use that understanding to help early cancer • Scientific research and academia
detection efforts. The thing I enjoy most about being a
PhD student is being able to research a topic I am very • Conservation
passionate about, even if at sometimes it can be very • Animal welfare policy and charities
challenging and stressful!
• The biotechnology/bioscience and
My time at the RVC taught me a lot about what pharmaceutical industries
research really is. My degree provided me with a
strong knowledge and practical skills, through practical • Animal behaviour consultancy
sessions, my third-year research dissertation in breast • Farm industry
cancer and my placement fourth year in industry at
GSK. I was able to gain a wide range of experience that • Publishing
enabled me to get my first job out of my degree and
now my PhD. All the skills and experience I’ve collected • Media
along the way, right from being at the RVC, I use daily in • Medical communications
my role as a PhD student.
• Veterinary science
After my PhD (I’ll graduate September 2026), I hope to • Graduate schemes in sectors as diverse as
move into intellectual property and biobusiness. As I have
been working in an early cancer detection space I have finance and government
learnt much about how new innovations are brought from
the research bench to clinic, and would really enjoy getting
to apply my scientific understanding in this space.”
CALLUM ODDY
MSci Applied Biological Research, Graduated 2021
36 CRITICAL-THINKING • PROBLEM-SOLVING • SCIENCE-SHAPING