Get into Harvard Medical School and study genomics at the Broad Institute. They will have you researching marine animals to cure people.

Harvard University (MA)

100 4.8 4.7 3.81 11.7 4.7% $1,172.5 $158.6 9.6 $40,279 771

2.Johns Hopkins University (MD)

82 4.9 4.7 3.85 11.6 6.2% $471.6 $207.9 4.7 $37,515 482

3.University of Pennsylvania

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4.Washington University in St. Louis

5.University of California–San Francisco

6.University of Washington

7.Stanford University (CA)

8.Duke University (NC)

8.Yale University (CT)

10.Baylor College of Medicine (TX)

10.Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons (NY)

10.University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

13.University of California–Los Angeles (Geffen)

14.University of California–San Diego

15.Cornell University (Weill) (NY)

15.University of Chicago (Pritzker)

15.University of Pittsburgh

18.Vanderbilt University (TN)

19.U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas

20.University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

21.Case Western Reserve University (OH)

21.Northwestern University (Feinberg) (IL)

23.Emory University (GA)

23.Mayo Medical School (MN)

23.University of Colorado–Denver and Health Sciences Center

23.University of Virginia

27.Mount Sinai School of Medicine (NY)

27.University of Alabama–Birmingham

27.University of Wisconsin–Madison

30.University of Iowa (Carver)

31.Ohio State University

32.Dartmouth Medical School (NH)

32.Oregon Health and Science University

34.Boston University

34.Brown University (RI)

34.New York University

34.University of Rochester (NY)

38.University of Southern California (Keck)

39.University of Minnesota Medical School

39.Yeshiva University (Einstein) (NY)

41.University of California–Irvine

41.University of Cincinnati

41.University of Maryland

44.Georgetown University (DC)

44.Indiana University–Indianapolis

44.Wake Forest University (NC)

47.Tufts University (MA)

48.University of Florida

49.University of California–Davis

49.University of Massachusetts–Worcester

49.University of Utah

My guess is that you have not yet graduated from university. You may also be in the U.K., since you write about “courses” to refer to the entire degree program. If that is the case, I can’t really tell you where the good programs are. There are relatively few programs in Marine Biology, since they are all located on the coasts. I’ve heard of programs at the University of Hawaii, Cal State Long Beach, Texas A&M, etc. Medicine is another matter. You can’t go to medical school or study medicine until after you have graduated from a university. There are hundreds of medical schools, and you might check U.S. News and World Reports’ rankings of programs to find ones which appeal to you.