Bio-Tech & Future Medicine

Explore the meeting point of living systems and digital technology. Bio-Tech & Future Medicine introduces ambitious students to research questions that could shape how we understand, repair and engineer the human body.

You will investigate CRISPR and gene editing, discover how AI and tools such as AlphaFold are changing biological research, and explore the possibilities of synthetic biology. Further themes include 3D bioprinting and brain–computer interfaces, connecting scientific ideas with the technologies used to investigate them.

Hands-on project work encourages you to move beyond headlines, ask sharper questions and communicate complex ideas clearly. Your final presentation offers an opportunity to develop your thinking into a coherent piece of work and discuss it with professionals.

Set within a two-week Oxford experience, the LAB combines scientific exploration with cultural excursions and international friendships. Its focus is educational exploration of emerging research and scientific debate.

Residential students stay at New College, Oxford, in single en-suite bedrooms with full board. The non-residential option is for students arranging their own accommodation.

£7,995 residential / £5,995 non-residential per 14-day LAB

Residential: academic tuition and workshops, cultural excursions, social and wellbeing activities, professional feedback on final presentations, a Spark certificate of completion, single en-suite accommodation at New College and full-board meals.

Non-residential: academic tuition and workshops, core excursions, lunch and a Spark certificate of completion.