1. UCAS Open Day Prof Jeremy Lakey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dWoD8peVA0 School of Biomedical Sciences

2. St James’ Park The Medical School The Sage The Tyne Bridge Welcome to Newcastle!

3. North Pennines Kielder Water The Cheviots Coastline

4. Outdoor Pursuits Kite Surfing Canoeing Sailing Waterskiing Walking Hiking Climbing Bungeeing Bouldering Cycling Mountain Biking Surfing

5. Outdoor Pursuits a personal view Kite Surfing Canoeing Sailing Waterskiing Orienteering Sailing Hill Walking Skiing!

6. Warkworth Bamburgh Dunstanburgh Alnwick

7. Hadrian’s Wall

8. St James’ Park Durham Cathedral Tradition

9. The Quad Medical Sciences4,981 Science Agriculture7,126 & Engineering Humanities, Arts &10,767 Social Sciences TOTAL22,874 A University City

10. Newcastle For students, the low cost of living, the ease of finding accommodation, proximity to the sea and dramatic countryside, famed nightlife and gregarious Geordie hospitality mix to create a pretty punchy cocktail. So potent, in fact, Newcastle tops our list.” BEST UK UNIVERSITY CITY 2010 MSN Travel Website BEST UK UNIVERSITY CITY 2010 MSN Travel Website

11. Sport The Great North Run Newcastle United Newcastle Falcons Newcastle Eagles Newcastle Vipers Gateshead Stadium Durham County Cricket Club (Chester-le-Street) Newcastle United Newcastle Falcons Newcastle Eagles Newcastle Vipers Gateshead Stadium Durham County Cricket Club (Chester-le-Street)

12. Arts & Culture The Sage The BALTIC Theatre Royal PLUS, The Biscuit Factory, Live Theatre, The Northern Stage, City Hall, The Great North Museum, The Shipley Art Gallery.........

13. Night Life

14. Alternative Night Life? Open until 10 pm Mon-Thurs 9 pm Fri-Sun

15. Facts & Figures! Approximately 200 undergraduate degrees & over 260 postgraduate taught programmes and research degrees Ranked in the Global Top 200 (by both the QS & Times Higher Education Supplement) A founder member the Russell Group, an association of 20 research intensive Universities in the UK 21 Research Centres 13 Research Institutes High rating Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008)

16. The Quad £200m invested on campus improvements: new buildings, refurbished laboratories, lecture theatres & computing suites. £200m invested on campus improvements: new buildings, refurbished laboratories, lecture theatres & computing suites.

17. The Medical School Lecture Theatres Seminar Rooms Teaching Laboratories Computing Clusters Walton Library Cafe Student Common Room

18. A training in Biomedicine, what’s it all about?- a short story from our current research Child A presents to doctor with repeated infections Microbiologists determine the types of infections and immune response of the patient enabling doctor to stabilise the patient, but what’s the cause? Physiologists characterise the behaviour of the cells and confirm that they show unusual behaviour. Also suggest some existing drugs which might help. A brother has similar symptoms so geneticists screen their genomes for gene changes. A gene is indentified which may cause the problem. Biochemists characterise the faulty protein and show how its structure is affected by the mutation. They discover molecules which may be used as new drugs. Pharmacologists develop a treatment regime using drugs which restores the function of the immune system

19. UCAS Open Day Any questions? School of Biomedical Sciences