Researchers of the Biology Department are involved in Research Associations such as:
- CASS: Cassava Source-Sink Project: Improving cassava yield to support smallholder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa (funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)
- Research Unit FOR 5775: Defining macrophages as choreographers of tissue development and function (funded by DFG)
- Research Unit FOR 2953: Sialic Acid as Regulator in Development and Immunity (funded by DFG)
- Research Unit FOR 5560: Crosstalk between B cell metabolism and signaling (funded by DFG)
- Collaborative Research Centre 1540: Exploring Brain Mechanics (funded by DFG)
- Collaborative Research Centre 1755: CASCAID – Cellular and Systems Control of Autoimmune Disease (funded by DFG)
- Collaborative Research Centre 1526: Pathomechanisms of Antibody-mediated Autoimmunity (PANTAU) (funded by DFG)
- Research Training Group 2504: Novel antiviral approaches: from small molecules to immune intervention (funded by DFG)
- Research Training Group 2599: Fine-Tuners of Adaptive Immune Response (funded by DFG)
- Transregio 369: Degeneration fo Bone due to Inflammation (funded by DFG)