UEA School of Biological Sciences

The School of Biological Sciences is a research-led academic community at the University of East Anglia.

Across the RAE 2008 assessment period (7 years), the School won £38.5 million in peer-reviewed, competitive grant funding, representing an annual external funding rate of almost £5 million.

Research in the School of Biological Sciences also has links with national organisations such as the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquacultural Science, the Public Health Laboratory Service, and connections to international organisations as diverse as the US Department of Energy, the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, and Birdlife International.

Approximately 150 home and international students join each year for study leading to an Honours degree.

The School also offers five postgraduate master's degree programmes in; Applied Ecology and Conservation, Plant Genetics, Crop Improvement, Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security and Molecular Medicine.

Dame Sarah Gilbert was the Project Lead on the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of Hepatitis C Sir Michael Houghton
Nobel laureate and President of the Royal Society Sir Paul Nurse