Our academic staff are active and excellent in research. Our research areas include:
   
   - Cell Biology
   - Environmental Science
   - Food & Nutritional Sciences
   - Genomics and bioinformatics
   - Marine Science
   - Plant & Agricultural Science
   - Physiology & Developmental Biology
   - Protein Science
   - Toxicology

The School also manages various research centers including:
   
   - Centre for Cell and Developmental Biology
   - Food Research Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
   - Simon FS Li Marine Science Laboratory
   - The Centre for Protein Science and Crystallography
   - The Croucher Laboratory for Human Genomics
   - The Hong Kong Bioinformatics Centre
   - UGC-AoE Centre for Plant & Agricultural Biotechnology