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What was unforeseeable in the past is now changing the future in a more profound way than could have been imagined. Whether in the areas of agriculture, the environment, genetics or pharmaceuticals and medicine, biotechnology has enormous potential to change our lives forever. Through modern technologies, such as genetic engineering, biotechnology is shaping diverse aspects of medicine (cancer, vaccines, therapy of genetic diseases), food production (transgenic plants) and industry (bioremediation). |
Biotechnology at the University of Wollongong is focussed on the rapidly developing nucleic acid, protein and monoclonal antibody technologies, rather than on traditional processes such as fermentation. |
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Bachelor of BIOTECHNOLOGY | |
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| UAC: 757611 ATAR: 85.00 (90.0 Advanced) |
Duration: 4 years full-time (8 sessions) or part-time equivalent |
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Biotechnology is the use of living organisms (micro-organism, plants and animals) to make research tools or commercial products. It encompasses monoclonal antibody and protein technology and genetic engineering. This is a practical degree that stresses real life technologies at the forefront of Science, designed to produce graduates who are competent to examine and understand the application of cellular and molecular biology to the industrial, agricultural, environmental and medical fields. A new generation of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, hormones and anit-inflammatory agents are developed from these technologies. Basic biochemistry and genetics are followed by subjects such as molecular cell biology, cellular and molecular immunology and biotechnology. Those who do not qualify for direct entry to the degree may gain admission via the Bachelor of Science subject to satisfactory performance in first two years and approval of the Biotechnology Co-ordinator. | |
Students enrolled in this elite degree will study areas such as biochemistry, genetics, molecular cell biology, immunology, bioinformatics and related areas of chemistry and biomedical sciences. Additionally, students study other relevant areas such as ethics and management.
In the Honours year students may choose an area of research from a diverse range of fields and research institutes. Included among these are medical research institutes, hospital laboratories, divisions of CSIRO, sections of the Department of Agriculture and Forensic Science Divisions. Students may also choose from internationally renown research at the University of Wollongong in areas as diverse as plant biotechnology, marine biotechnology, immunology and the human medical areas of vaccine development, cell death and cancer research.
Graduates of the Bachelor of Biotechnology have a 100% employment success rate within six months of degree completion. They are employed in a variety of fields both within Australia and internationally including environmental research, patent consultancy and medical research. Additionally, many graduates have continued further study by enrolling in Doctoral degrees or Pharmacy and Medical degrees.
There is such enormous potential in the biotechnology field that even those directly involved may be unable to truly understand its full potential. However, armed with the skills which will lead this world in the biotechnology revolution of the 21st century, the horizons of the biotechnology graduate are ever widening and their future bright.
For more info phone Julie Ann Green (Biotechnology Professional Officer) 4221 3100.