A focus of the Faculty of Biological Sciences is the investigation of long and short-term adaptation of organisms to their environment. The research focuses on the complete spectrum of biodiversity, from microbes to higher eukaryotes. In this case, the Faculty can profit from its excellent organismic and molecular competences, which are based on a long tradition in Frankfurt.

In 2008, biodiversity research manifested itself successfully in the establishment of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiKF). Research on biochemical, cellular and neurobiological issues is also highly topical. Several work groups participate in the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 902 “Molecular Mechanisms of RNA-based Regulation" as well as in SFB 807 “Transport and Communication across Biological Membranes" which were approved in 2011. Seven work groups belong to the Excellence Cluster “Macromolecular complexes", which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); others are associated with it.

• Biodiversity and Climate Research Centres (BiKF)
• SFB 902 - Molecular Mechanisms of RNA-based Regulation
• SFB 807 Transport and Communication across biological Membranes
• Excellence Cluster Macromolecular Complexes
• Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience (ICNF)
• Centre for Interdisciplinary Africa Research (ZIAF)
• FOR2251 - Adaptation and persistence of the emerging pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii
• SE2B - Solar Energy to Biomass - Optimization of light energy conversion in plants and microalgae
• LOEWE focus on DynaMem

The cooperation in these outstanding research associations strengthens the profile of the Faculty in cell biology and neuroscience as well as in the molecular biosciences. In addition to the above-mentioned research partners, further important cooperation partners of the Faculty of Biological Sciences in Research and teaching are the following:

• Max Planck Institute for Brain Research or
• Max Planck Institute for Biophysics,
• the Chemotherapeutic Research Institute Georg-Speyer-Haus,
• the Paul Ehrlich Institut, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedical Pharmaceuticals,
• the Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum in Frankfurt.