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Biomedical science is a body of science that applies parts of the natural sciences or formal sciences, or both, to the development of knowledge, interventions, or technologies that are used in healthcare or public health. Disciplines such as medical microbiology, clinical virology, clinical epidemiology, genetic epidemiology and biomedical engineering are medical sciences. Pathophysiology can, however, be considered the basic science in explaining the physiological processes involved in pathological processes.
Biomedical science, as defined by the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education Benchmark Statement 2015, includes science disciplines whose primary focus is the biology of human health and disease and ranges from the generic study of biomedical science and human biology to more specialized subjects. Areas like pharmacology, human physiology and human nutrition. It is underpinned by relevant basic sciences including anatomy and physiology, cell biology, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics and molecular biology, immunology, mathematics and statistics, and bioinformatics. As such the biomedical sciences have a much wider range of academic and research activities and economic significance than those defined by hospital laboratory science. Biomedical science is a major focus of biology research and funding in the 21st century.
