The Faculty of Science is proud that its departments lead four university research priority programs and collaborate in three others.

Adaptive Brain Circuits in Development and Learning (Prof. Esther Stoeckli, Prof. Fritjof Helmchen)

Evolution in Action: From Genomes to Ecosystems (Prof. Beat Keller, Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus)

Global Change and Biodiversity (Prof. Michael Schaepman, Prof. Bernhard Schmid, Prof. Owen Petchey)

Solar Light to Chemical Energy Conversion (Prof. Roger Alberto)

Translational Cancer Research (Prof. Lars French, Prof. Konrad Basler)

Language and Space (Prof. Robert Weibel, Prof. Ross S. Purves)

Dynamics of Healthy Aging (Prof. Robert Weibel)

Asia and Europe (Prof. Ulrike Müller-Böker, Prof. Norman Backhaus, Prof. Benedikt Korf)

Systems Biology/Functional Genomics (Prof. Jiricny, Prof. Konrad Basler, Prof. Beat Keller, Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus, Prof. Anne Müller)